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South Asia Energy Series on Scaling Grid-Connected Distributed Solar in South Asia

March 23rd, 2021
In South Asia distributed solar potential, can support the region’s energy needs and can also accelerate the transition towards low carbon systems for a clean energy future. USAID's South Asia Regional Energy Hub (SAREH) and USAID’s PACE-D 2.0 RE Program in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) organized a webinar on ‘Scaling Grid-Connected Distributed Solar In South Asia’ under the South Asia Energy Series on March 23, 2021.

South Asia Energy Series on Accelerating Electric Vehicle Charging in South Asia Part II

May 6th, 2021
Decarbonizing how we travel, needs switching from conventional petroleum-based vehicles to electric vehicles. The South Asia Energy Series on Accelerating EV Charging in South Asia (Part II) on May 06, 2021 discussed the economics of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and EV charging business models.

Melissa Klembara

Job Title: 
Deputy Director for Portfolio Strategy
Organization: 
U.S. DOE - Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations

Ms. Melissa Klembara is currently acting as the Deputy Director for Portfolio Strategy in the Department of Energy’s new Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), which is executing on over $20 billion in pilot and demonstration scale clean energy technologies funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Prior to joining OCED, Ms. Klembara was a Program Manager in the Advanced Manufacturing Office, leading over $200 million in large, public-private RD&D consortia in areas such as process intensification, energy-water-food nexus, and sustainable manufacturing. Ms. Klembara was also a Chief of Staff for both the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Renewable Power. Additionally, she spent several years as a Technology Manager in the Bioenergy Technology Office working on first-of-a-kind pilot, demonstration, and commercial scale biorefineries. Before joining the federal government, Ms. Klembara worked at International Paper Company. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineer from the University of Maryland as well as an MBA and Masters of Science in Energy, both from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Profile Type: 
Speaker

Damian Beauchamp

Job Title: 
President and Chief Development Officer
Organization: 
8Rivers
Damian is the President and Chief Development Officer at 8 Rivers. Through his career he has developed an expertise in CCUS related project and technology development. Damian is also the co-founder and President of Coyote Clean Power, LLC and a member of the NET Power Board of Directors. In 2020, he was a co-author of the US National Petroleum Council’s comprehensive CCUS report Meeting the Dual Challenge A Roadmap to At-Scale Deployment of CCUS, which was commissioned by Former US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and lead by NPC. Previously, he started two companies for which he has been featured in Forbes and Fortune, while also having received several entrepreneurial awards along the way. Additionally, his work in field of chemistry has been published and/or featured Nature Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, and Chemical & Engineering News. Damian holds a master’s degree in chemistry from The Ohio State University during which time he was awarded the Future Leader in Chemistry Award from a division of the American Chemical Society and the won the Clean Energy Business Plan Prize from the US DOE. His bachelor’s degree in chemistry was earned at Kent State University.

Jef Vincent

Job Title: 
Senior Advisor – RE Finance and Project Facilitation
Organization: 
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Jef Vincent is a Belgian citizen. He has been working for IRENA since 2018, leading the work of the agency in the areas of risk mitigation and project facilitation. The ambition of the different projects is to support renewable energy projects to access the support that they need. This work has now been brought together in the Climate Investment Platform, a joint initiative of UNDP, IRENA, SEforAll with the support of the Green Climate Fund.

Before joining IRENA, Jef was active for nearly 30 years in credit and political risk insurance, with a private insurance company (Euler Hermes), a national export credit agency (Credendo), and the last seven years a multilateral insurance company (Africa Trade Insurance).  In total he worked 20 years as senior manager in startups in the Czech Republic, Asia, and Africa

Besides his work with IRENA he also represents the African Development Bank in the supervisory board of AfricaRe, Africa’s largest reinsurance company, and he prepares the start-up of an export credit agency in Mongolia for the World Bank.

Profile Type: 
Speaker

De-risking Renewable Energy Investments: Risks at the Margin

June 24th, 2021
This webinar, the first of a series on de-risking renewable energy projects, provides an overview of the underlying risks that investors and lenders usually review and that can cause a project to fail if not addressed properly.

Claude Letourneau

Job Title: 
President and CEO
Organization: 
Svante, Inc.

Claude Létourneau is President & CEO of the Vancouver-based company Svante Inc..

He is an industrial projects veteran who brings to Svante a broad range of experience leading large world-class projects from the lab to large industrial facilities.

His leadership style is underscored by effort, energy, and excitement – the 3Es of visionary thinkers. At ease bringing about change, Mr. Letourneau will leverage his 30 years’ experience in advance technology development and commercialization to help steer the company to be a global leader in building a CO2 Marketplace.

Previously, Claude held senior management roles with Canam Group Inc., SNC-Lavalin Inc., and Kontron Embedded Computers AG. He also founded two technology companies, Vaperma, Inc. (membrane-based gas separation) and Avestor Inc. (thin-film lithium polymer batteries).

These past experiences provide the necessary insight for the bilingual executive to forge new strategic alliances and partnerships with like-minded industry leaders and to guide the company’s scaling up of the business with an aggressive time-to-market game plan.

Claude received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from University Laval, Quebec, Canada.

Carbon Capture in Colorado and the Southern Ute Indian Reservation

June 23rd, 2021
The United States Energy Association is proud to host Coyote Clean Power (CCP), the Colorado Energy Office, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, and Svante, in a discussion around carbon capture in Colorado and the Southern Ute Indian Reservation.

Indian Energy Minerals Forum, Webinar Series 2, Webinar #4: Tribal Opportunities In The New Energy Market - Blue and Green Hydrogen in Indian Country

June 24th, 2021
The Indian Energy Minerals Forum originates from continued engagement with energy and mineral stakeholders where a one-day seminar on Indian Energy Minerals was held at the Reservation Economic Summit March 2020, Las Vegas, Nevada, followed by a 2-webinar series during the Summer of 2020 following up on key topics generated from the seminar.

USEA Virtual Press Briefing: Cyber Insecurity In The Energy Sector

June 4th, 2021
On the heels of four major cyberattacks over the past six months -- the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange supply chain attacks, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, and the recent USAID email hacks -- cyber security has taken on a new urgency for energy companies.

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.

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