Job Title: 
Mechanical Engineer
Organization: 
Space Frontier Foundation
Benjamin Calloway is a mechanical engineer, author, and entrepreneur focused in the space industry. He discovered his passion for space solar power after joining Srikanth's team at the Space Frontier Foundation, where he focuses on technical understanding and industry adoption. Benjamin believes that the orbital space economy is developing quickly, and it's not a matter of if space solar will be implemented, but when.
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Speaker
Job Title: 
Space Based Solar Power Program Manager
Organization: 
Space Frontier Foundation
Srikanth Raviprasad is an aerospace engineer and space energy advocate working at the intersection of space technology and clean energy. He leads the Space Solar Power program at the Space Frontier Foundation, advancing commercialization, policy engagement, and industry adoption while positioning SSP as a scalable, dispatchable clean energy solution through collaboration with policymakers, utilities, and industry leaders. He believes in the equitable utilization of space resources and views energy abundance as a key driver for advancing human civilization.
Profile Type: 
Speaker
April 30th, 2026

Capturing solar energy in orbit and beaming it wirelessly to Earth, a technology known as space solar power, offers revolutionary value to the US energy sector. Our current grid faces rising demand, congestion, and aging infrastructure. While terrestrial renewables are essential, their intermittency requires massive, expensive energy storage overbuilds to maintain reliability. Space solar power helps mitigate these systemic challenges and is a perfect complementary solution to the load growth from electrification and AI data centers.

Job Title: 
Senior Consultant
Organization: 
United States Energy Association

Beata Bialy serves as a Senior Consultant with the United States Energy Association (USEA), where she specializes in energy policy, strategic analysis, and high-level written content on U.S. and international energy issues. Her work includes policy research, analytical writing, and program support across a wide range of topics, including domestic and international coal, carbon capture, critical minerals, geothermal energy, grid reliability, artificial intelligence and electricity demand, and broader energy security challenges.

Beata has 13 years of experience in program coordination roles with USEA, where she has implemented U.S. government-funded energy programs, developed work plans and reports, coordinated high-level events, and worked closely with senior leadership, consultants, utilities, ministries, and international partners. Her experience combines policy analysis with practical program delivery across complex energy initiatives in Europe, Eurasia, and East Africa. She has supported energy sector engagement and program activities in Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, and Turkey, as well as Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi.

Fluent in Polish, Beata holds a Master’s degree from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and a Bachelor’s degree from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Prior to joining USEA, she worked in cybersecurity business development with Knowledge Consulting Group.

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Staff
May 12th, 2026

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On May 12, 2026, the United States Energy Association will convene the US Energy Policy Forum in Washington, DC, to shift the national dialogue from high-level discussion to "Prioritizing Action." This landmark event will gather a select group of visionaries and decision-makers to bridge the gap between policy and practice, defining the next era of our energy landscape.

April 3rd, 2026

By Crystal Staebell and Will Polen

Small modular reactors offer the promise of carbon-free, firm baseload power, shorter construction timelines than traditional nuclear plants, and the flexibility to phase capital investment over time as capacity is added. As licensing pathways for these technologies advance, two especially promising routes to commercialization are meeting the rapidly growing power demands of AI and data centers and supporting the production of aviation fuel.

April 2nd, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Melissa Brown, mbrown@usea.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. – USEA President & CEO Mark Menezes today released the following statement in response to President Trump’s address regarding Middle East developments and the vital role of American energy in global market stability: