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Jason Sandel

Job Title: 
Executive Vice President
Organization: 
Aztec Well Family of Companies, Aztec, NM

Sandel, a native of Farmington, is the third generation of his family to help lead a business that includes five oil and gas contractors and associated vertically integrated businesses, which have operated in New Mexico since 1963. Sandel also has served on the Farmington City Council, as chairman of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, vice-chair of the New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool, vice-chair of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange and as a member of the New Mexico Economic Development Commission.  He currently serves on the board of NMOGA and is a member of the New Mexico Methane Advisory Panel. Sandel is a graduate of the University of New Mexico.

Indian Energy Minerals Forum, Webinar Series 2, Webinar #3, Resources and Technology Available To Tribal Energy Development

June 2nd, 2021

Webinar #3: Resources and Technology Available to Tribal Energy Development

Sagebrush Hill Group LLC, a Navajo professional services company, in partnership with the United States Energy Association (USEA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invite tribal representative, federal and state representative and industry stakeholders to the Indian Energy Minerals Forum webinar series which will host 6 collaborative sessions scheduled from May 2021 through July 2021.

Matt Barrett

Job Title: 
Chief Operating Officer
Organization: 
CyberESI

Matt Barrett is Chief Operating Officer of CyberESI Consulting Group, a security operations center engineering and services firm, which is based in Baltimore.

Previously, Matt led the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (for short, known as the Cybersecurity Framework) program for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Through his awareness campaign and efforts, Matt propelled the Cybersecurity Framework to worldwide use, with a domestic usage that is estimated at over 30 percent.

Profile Type: 
Speaker

Commissioner Paul Kjellander

Job Title: 
President
Organization: 
Idaho PUC

Commissioner Paul Kjellander serves as President of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, having been appointed to his current six-year term in 2017 by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter. His term expires in 2023.

It is Paul’s second term in his second stint on the commission, having previously served from January 1999 to October 2007. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter reappointed Paul in April 2011, following his service as administrator of the newly created state Office of Energy Resources (OER).

A member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (NARUC) board of directors and executive committee, Paul serves as President of the association. He also serves as President of the National Council on Electricity Policy, which is funded by the Department of Energy and managed by NARUC.

During his time at OER, which is now known as the Office of Energy and Mineral Resources, Paul created an aggressive energy efficiency program funded through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. He also served on the board of the National Association of State Energy Officials.

Before joining the commission in 1999, Paul was elected to three terms in the Idaho House of Representatives, where he served from 1994 to 1999.

Prior to his legislative service, Paul was director of Boise State University’s College of Applied Technology Distance Learning, where he earned tenured faculty status and served in various positions including program head of broadcast technology and station manager of BSU Radio Network.

Profile Type: 
Speaker
Secondary Job Title: 
President
Secondary Organization: 
NARUC

Cyber Insecurity In the Energy Sector

June 4th, 2021
The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack broadened the parameters of concern about perpetrators, from bad state actors to wanton criminals, seeking to devastate U.S. energy systems. No longer is cyber insecurity just a worry for utilities. Now all energy supplies are vulnerable.

Emergency Control Systems for Transmission

May 26th, 2021

This is the second in the series of Grid Modernization webinars hosted by USAID's Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI).

In this webinar, speakers will present on the implementation and benefits of the Georgian State Electrosystem's (GSE) Emergency Control System (ECS).

Consensus: Indian Energy Minerals Forum 2021: National Energy Policy Transition: Tribal Perspective

May 26th, 2021
Sagebrush Hill Group LLC, a Navajo professional services company, in partnership with the United States Energy Association (USEA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invite tribal representative, federal and state representative and industry stakeholders to the Indian Energy Minerals Forum webinar series which will host 6 collaborative sessions scheduled from May 2021 through July 2021.

Consensus: Building Commercial Scale Clean Energy Systems

May 26th, 2021

An economically viable and effective clean energy system design for the industry requires a broad based and holistic approach to deep decarbonization of industrial activities across the manufacturing value chain. It needs to optimize and integrate feedstocks, production, technology, scale, economics, policy, and environmental justice across the entire value chain.

USEA Virtual Press Briefing: President Biden's Infrastructure Plan and Electric Utilities

May 26th, 2021

What will be the impact of President Joe Biden’s proposed $2.3 trillion infrastructure package on the electric utility industry and its suppliers? That was the question addressed at USEA's virtual press briefing on May 14.

A panel of experts on the Biden infrastructure proposals answered questions from top energy reporters. The experts and reporters were introduced by USEA Executive Director Sheila Hollis, and the discussion was moderated by Llewellyn King.

Consensus: Indian Energy Minerals Forum Webinar #2

May 26th, 2021

Sagebrush Hill Group LLC, a Navajo professional services company, in partnership with the United States Energy Association (USEA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invited tribal representative, federal and state representative and industry stakeholders to the Indian Energy Minerals Forum webinar series which will host 6 collaborative sessions scheduled from May 2021 through July 2021.

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