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Fireside Chat with Mike Moore: USDOE Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains 101​

November 14th, 2023

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Join us for an insightful Fireside Chat with a distinguished expert, Virginia Castro, from the Department of Energy's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains. In this webinar, we will delve into the intricate world of energy supply chains and manufacturing, getting a 101-level introduction that's both engaging and informative. 

Virginia Castro

Job Title: 
Engagement Specialist
Organization: 
U.S. DOE, Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains
Virginia serves as an Engagement Specialist for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE), Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC). The programs she supports oversee the scale up and deployment of domestic manufacturing capacity across the energy supply chains from batteries and critical minerals to manufacturing facilities and workforce expansion to supply chain analysis sand modeling. 

Fireside Chat with Mike Moore: Appalachia’s Next Energy Revolution, Direct Use Of Natural Gas In Manufacturing With Capture And Permanent Geological Storage Of CO2

November 9th, 2023

Join Mike and Perry Babb as we delve into the future of energy in Appalachia. Discover how the region is on the brink of an energy revolution, where it's not only embracing the direct use of natural gas in manufacturing but also addressing environmental concerns through the capture and permanent geological storage of CO2. We'll talk in depth about the innovative technologies and sustainable solutions shaping the energy landscape, all while driving economic growth and reducing carbon emissions.

Perry Babb

Job Title: 
CEO
Organization: 
KeyState Energy - Developer

Perry Babb has 42 years of organizational development experience, having founded multiple successful companies in business services, construction, energy, marketing, and 3 non-profit corporations, with strategic humanitarian work in a dozen countries. Mr. Babb is president and founder of KeyState Energy and a leading voice in the new energy economy. KeyState Energy is Developer of the ‘Atlantic Coast Clean Hydrogen Corridor’, currently comprised of 2 revolutionary natural gas synthesis and carbon storage projects, ‘KeyState Pennsylvania’ and ‘KeyState Virginia’, each projected to reach commercial operations in 2028 & 2029 respectively. Additional project announcements upcoming. These $2 billion complexes integrate innovative onsite natural gas extraction which avoids 99% of conventional upstream emissions, onsite synthesis of ultra-low-carbon hydrogen by separating 99%+ of carbon from hydrogen in methane and returning the CO2 back deep underground, all with zero-carbon onsite power generation. These facilities will produce some of the world’s lowest carbon, lowest cost hydrogen at large scale. Products vary by site, but include hydrogen for the mobility market, ammonia for industrial processes, and co-products of urea for fertilizer and for diesel exhaust treatment.

Of note, this months, KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis & CCUS was selected by DOE as part of the ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub awards and lands KeyState squarely in America’s coming hydrogen economy. www.KeyState.net

Mr. Babb holds a BA in Sociology from James Madison University and is a published author in 7 languages. He and his wife and business partner of 43 years, Jacqueline, live mostly on Hatteras Island with their genius dog, Bentley.

USEA 20th Annual State of the Energy Industry Forum

January 23rd, 2024

Braden Limb

Job Title: 
Research Associate IV
Organization: 
Colorado State University - Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Braden Limb is a Research Associate working with Dr. Jason Quinn in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University. His research focuses on the techno-economic evaluation, life-cycle assessment, and optimization of sustainable technologies such as electric vehicles, carbon capture, and biofuels. Braden holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University and will complete a PhD in Systems Engineering from Colorado State University in summer 2024.

Profile Type: 
Speaker

USEA Briefing on U.S. and North American Lithium

December 12th, 2023

Rob Gramlich

Job Title: 
Founder & President
Organization: 
Grid Strategies LLC

Rob Gramlich is President of Grid Strategies LLC, a Washington DC-based consultancy focused on transmission and power markets for a reliable, affordable, and sustainable power system. He co-founded Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, Working for Advanced Transmission Technologies (WATT Coalition), Advancing Modern Powerlines, the Macro Grid Initiative, and the Future Power Markets Forum. Rob has been invited to testify by both parties before Congress, FERC, and state agencies. He has earned awards from FERC as Exemplar of Public Service, the Energy Systems Integration Group for contributions to market design and transmission planning, The Hill Magazine for lobbying, and the American Wind Energy Association for Technical Achievement.

Rob previously oversaw transmission and power market policy for the American Wind Energy Association as SVP and Interim CEO, served as Economic Advisor to FERC Chairman Pat Wood III, and was Senior Economist at PJM Interconnection.

Rob has a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from UC Berkeley and a BA with Honors in Economics from Colby College.

Mark Lauby

Job Title: 
Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer
Organization: 
North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Mark G. Lauby is senior vice president and chief engineer at NERC. Mr. Lauby joined NERC in January 2007 and has held a number of positions, including vice president and director of Standards and vice president and director of Reliability Assessments and Performance Analysis. In 2012, Mr. Lauby was elected to the North American Energy Standards Board and was appointed to the Department of Energy’s Electric Advisory Committee by the Secretary of Energy in 2014. Mr. Lauby has served as chair and is a life member of the International Electricity Research Exchange and served as chair of a number of IEEE working groups. From 1999 to 2007, Mr. Lauby was an appointed member of the Board of Excellent Energy International Co., LTD, an energy service company based in Thailand. He has been recognized for his technical achievements in many technical associations, including the 1992 IEEE Walter Fee Young Engineer of the Year Award. He was named a Fellow by IEEE in November 2011 for “leadership in the development and application of techniques for bulk power system reliability.” In 2014, Mr. Lauby was awarded the IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award. In 2020, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) elected Mr. Lauby as a member, citing his development and application of techniques for electric grid reliability analysis. He is also a member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Executive Advisory Committee, focused on providing strategic support to the PES Board of Directors. Prior to joining NERC, Mr. Lauby worked for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) for 20 years, holding a number of senior positions, including: director, Power Delivery and Markets; managing director, Asia, EPRI International; and manager, Power System Engineering in the Power System Planning and Operations Program. Mr. Lauby began his electric industry career in 1979 at the Mid-Continent Area Power Pool in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His responsibilities included transmission planning, power system reliability assessment, and probabilistic evaluation. Mr. Lauby is the author of more than 100 technical papers on the subjects of power system reliability, expert systems, transmission system planning, and power system numerical analysis techniques. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. In addition, Mr. Lauby attended the London Business School Accelerated Development Program as well as the Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.

Doug Arent

Job Title: 
Executive Director, Strategic Public-Private Partnerships
Organization: 
NREL

Doug Arent focuses on strategic public and private partnerships with NREL to transform energy economies at speed and scale across the globe.

Arent has worked in research on energy and sustainability for more than 30 years, publishing extensively on topics including clean energy, renewable energy, power systems, natural gas, and the intersection of science and public policy.

In addition to his NREL responsibilities, Arent is a distinguished fellow of the World Economic Forum and a senior visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a member of the Keystone Energy Board and the Global Advisory Board for the Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship. Arent also is an external fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs' Center on Global Energy Policy and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. He is the editor-in-chief of Renewable Energy Focus and is on the editorial board for the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Previously, Arent served on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Steering Committee on Social Science and the Alternative Energy Future, and the National Research Council Committee to Advise to U.S. Global Change Research Program. He also served on advisory boards for the Post-Carbon Transition Project at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford University, U.K., and the Energy Academy of Europe, Netherlands.

At NREL, he previously served as the deputy associate laboratory director for the Scientific Computing and Energy Analysis directorate, the founding executive director of the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, and the director for the Strategic Energy Analysis Center and the Integrated Applications Center. Arent was a coordinating lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has been a member of the Policy Subcommittee of the National Petroleum Council Study on Prudent Development of North America Natural Gas and Oil Resources, the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change (2008–2010), and the Executive Council of the U.S. Association of Energy Economists.

Arent has a doctorate from Princeton University, a Masters of Business Administration from Regis University, and a Bachelor of Science from Harvey Mudd College in California.

Credentials: 
Ph.D.

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