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Dr. Helena Khazdozian

Job Title: 
Senior Technology Manager
Organization: 
DOE-Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office

Dr. Helena Khazdozian is a Senior Technology Manager for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), managing a critical materials research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) portfolio including the Critical Materials Innovation Hub (CMI). She joined AMMTO after completing a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship in which she supported critical materials work funded by AMMTO’s heritage office, the Advanced Manufacturing Office. Helena also serves as the Critical Materials Co-Lead for the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy. Before joining DOE, Helena was a researcher at the Ames National Laboratory, a U.S. DOE National Laboratory, evaluating critical magnetic materials in electric machines using finite element analysis. She earned her PhD from Iowa State University in Wind Energy Science, Engineering, and Policy with a co-major in Electrical Engineering and her MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Virginia.

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Article Series: USAID’s Energy Development Partnerships in South Asia for a Dynamic Indo-Pacific

April 30th, 2024

Originally published in September 2, 2022.

Justin Freeman

Job Title: 
Vice President, CCUS and Hydrogen
Organization: 
Coffman Engineers

Justin spearheads Coffman Engineers’ national Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and Hydrogen market strategy, capabilities development, and management of projects.

His background includes program management and strategy, managing international giga projects, and leading process transformations. Justin intimately understands the energy industry and how the application of CCUS and hydrogen solutions can be applied to cost-effectively decarbonize market sectors.

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USEA Power Sector Podcast 38: LBNL Scientist and Energy Policy Researcher Joseph Rand

April 26th, 2024
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientist and Energy Policy Researcher Joseph Rand of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the lab’s recent update on generation queues, which shows almost 1500 MW of proposed clean energy generation waiting to be connected to U.S. transmission systems, the cause of the backlog, and what regulators are doing about it.

USEA Power Sector Podcast 37: WATT Coalition Executive Director Julia Selker

April 26th, 2024
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast, WATT Coalition Executive Director Julia Selker answered questions from journalist Herman K. Trabish about how grid enhancing technologies, or GETs, and transmission rewiring, or reconductoring, can significantly streamline the flow of electricity through the power system as a cost-effective bridge to the availability of the new transmission development critical to meeting US climate and energy goals.

EUPP INDIA CASE STUDY: TATA POWER DDL

April 24th, 2024
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USEA has been working in India through its Energy Partnership Program (EPP) and later through the Energy Utility Partnership Program (EUPP) since the 1990s. One organization that USEA has been working with sustainably for a long time is the Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power-DDL) a joint venture between Tata Power and the Government of New Delhi that distributes electricity to north and northwest parts of Delhi, keeping the light on for a population of about seven million.

Brett Huber

Job Title: 
Commissioner and Chairman
Organization: 
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Brett W. Huber, Sr. was appointed January 9, 2023, by Governor Dunleavy to serve as Commissioner and Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Mr. Huber has nearly 30 years of public policy and oil and gas industry experience and holds the dedicated public seat on the three-member panel. Mr. Huber first moved to Alaska from Colorado in search of outdoor adventure and career opportunity in 1984. In addition to professional positions and business ventures in the private sector, Brett has three decades of experience in public policy with a focus on natural resources - specifically oil and gas. Commencing in 1994, Huber held various staff leadership positions with the Alaska Legislature, many with a focus on oil and gas, land, fish, and wildlife issues. Since 2018, Huber worked for the Dunleavy Administration, where he served as the Governor’s Senior Policy Advisor, Policy Director, and Communications Director along with other duties. Chairman Huber’s service on the mayor’s committee brings with it access to the highly experienced professional staff of petroleum geologists and engineers at his agency.
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Patty McGrath

Job Title: 
Senior Mining Advisor
Organization: 
EPA headquarters Office of Policy

Patty McGrath serves as the Senior Mining Advisor for EPA headquarters Office of Policy, within the Administrators Office, where she is responsible for advising on mining and critical minerals issues across EPAs regulatory and tribal programs.  Patty has 35 years of mining-related professional experience, including 25 years with the U.S. EPA. She has also worked as a mining NEPA and permitting consultant, as the permitting manager for a proposed gold mine in Alaska, and as a metallurgical engineer at an operating mine and in research and development. Patty holds an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University and a B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

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Steve Masterman

Job Title: 
Deputy Director
Organization: 
Alaska Critical Mineral Collaborative

Steve Masterman retired as Alaska’s State Geologist after a career in the mining industry, state highway department, and finally the state geological survey. He has served as Alaska’s Chief Science Officer, Alaska Geospatial Council Chair, President of the Association of American State Geologists (AASG), is a Director of the Alaska Miners Association, and on numerous board and commissions. He is currently Deputy Director of the Alaska Critical Mineral Collaborative with UAF’s Geophysical Institute, and a geological consultant with Alaska Earth Sciences. Masterman’s areas of expertise include economic geology, engineering geology, and the geology and mineral deposits of Alaska.

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with UAF’s Geophysical Institute

Dr. Lee Ann Munk

Job Title: 
Professor of Geochemistry and Geological Sciences
Organization: 
University of Alaska

Dr. Lee Ann Munk is a Professor of Geochemistry and Geological Sciences at the University of Alaska where she leads a team of faculty, students, and researchers in solving cutting edge problems related to the energy transition. Her research expertise is in environmental and exploration geochemistry and resource geology with current work focused on pioneering ore deposit models for lithium brines, developing novel biomining techniques for REEs, and using isotope geochemistry to advance the exploration of concealed copper deposits. She has over 25 years of experience working in the critical minerals space with an extensive publication record and diverse and long-term industry research partnerships. She is excited to be the incoming Director of the Alaska Critical Minerals Collaborative based in the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska which will promote the extensive research and development abilities in science and engineering and advance partnerships with industry and state and federal agencies.

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