Jessie is the Executive Director of the Carbon Capture Coalition. Convened by the Great Plains Institute, the Coalition brings together 100-plus members from industry, labor, and NGOs to advance carbon capture policies and commercial deployment.
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Carbon180 Director of Technology Policy Kajsa Hendrickson answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about technologies for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, the progress in deploying those technologies, some of the challenges to their deployment, and the policies that can expand the capture of CO2 to impact scale.
Cassie Koerner is the Assistant Director of the CAES Energy Policy Institute (EPI) at Boise State University. EPI is currently leading a DOE-funded consortium to improve consent-based processes, especially focused on critical infrastructure and spent nuclear fuel. She researches policy change at the wildfire-electric grid interface and resilience as a key factor to effective energy transitions.
As a social scientist with experience in the public electric utility sector, her previous research experience in policy and public administration covered a range of topics including: renewable energy in the west, nuclear perceptions, energy efficiency, carbon sequestration, international carbon markets, as well as general energy and environmental issues.
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Senior Advisor Noah Deich of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, or FECM answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about FECM’s just updated 10 principles aimed at encouraging carbon management developers and stakeholders to pursue the highest levels of safety, environmental stewardship, accountability, community engagement, and societal benefits.
Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the critical concepts of consent-based siting and permitting, social license, and community-oriented project development tailored for Indian Country.
Jen works to support energy transition while ensuring that remaining fossil fuel development is done in a better way.
As Energy Director, Jen leads the EO100 Certification Program, contributes to organizational strategy, and assists partnering companies with their assessment processes. She also collaborates with a wide range of technical, policy and government leaders in her work to help ensure that best practices in energy are recognized and rewarded.
She has over a decade of field and operational experience providing geological drilling supervision on rigs in western Canada, as one of the first women to work in this role. She has a special interest in more sustainable and Indigenous-led approaches in energy development, in addition to community and gender-based impacts.
Jen holds two science degrees from Memorial University and has recently been accepted into the Institute of Corporate Directors DEP (Directors Education Program). She currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia.