Regional Decarbonization Series - Alaska Workshop

The United States Energy Association (USEA), in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), DOE’s Arctic Energy Office, and the National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association, cordially invites you to a workshop on Regional Decarbonization to be held in Anchorage, AK (tentatively at the Sheraton Anchorage). The duration of the workshop will be 2 days, with Day 1 on May 7, from 8:45 am – 5:45 pm and Day 2 on May 8, from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm.

This is the first of several “regional” workshops, with future workshops to be held in the South Central United States (including the Gulf Coast), American Heartlands, and Appalachia. These regional workshops are focused on areas of the United States with a strong history and reliance on fossil energy and where FECM and broader DOE program areas are likely to be critical in building a clean energy and industrial economy. The Regional Decarbonization Workshops will be held in conjunction with a series of regional initiatives that DOE is preparing in an attempt to take a holistic cross-cutting approach to communicate our portfolio and work in an accessible way that addresses the opportunities and challenges of each region, anchoring on the mix of energy, electricity, industry, existing infrastructure, existing subsurface, resource opportunities, and stakeholders that are unique to each region.

The target audience includes fossil fuel users from industry, power and the oil and gas sector, Railbelt regional electric cooperatives as well as: academia, state and local officials, and Environmental Justice communities. DOE would like to introduce these groups to work that is already being funded by the department in Alaska including: CarbonSAFE, DAC Hubs and the Railbelt Innovative Resiliency (RIR) Project. An overview of the currently funded work is intended to give attendees an understanding of technologies that their company/industry could use to facilitate a lower carbon future. A DOE panel will then highlight current funding mechanisms, thereby introducing the participants to DOE funding opportunities to assist in achieving lower-carbon and decarbonized energy goals and to facilitate a lower carbon future, enhance grid flexibility, improve the resilience of the power system against growing threats of extreme weather and climate change, and to ensure communities have access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity when and where they need it.

The workshop will also offer individual sector panels where the industrial, power and oil and gas participants can speak to DOE openly about their near-term and longer-term decarbonization goals. This will allow DOE to understand the priority areas of each of these sectors and also facilitate possible interactions between these groups, FECM, and the broader DOE. An equally critical aspect will be interaction with native communities and a clear understanding of regional Environmental Justice concerns. To book your hotel room at the workshop venue, please click here.

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Speakers

Brad Crabtree

Assistant Secretary
U.S. DOE - Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management

Dr. Erin Whitney

Director
U.S. Department of Energy - Arctic Energy Office

Melissa Stark

Senior Advisor
Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

Curtis Thayer

Executive Director
Alaska Energy Authority

Brett Huber

Commissioner and Chairman
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

Justin Freeman

Vice President, CCUS and Hydrogen
Coffman Engineers

John Hamling

Assistant Vice President for Strategic Partnerships
EERC

Dr. Nettie La Belle-Hamer

Vice Chancellor for Research
University of Alaska - Fairbanks

Gabriel Hernandez

Special Assistant
U.S. DOE - Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management

Caleb Woodall

Program Manager
U.S. DOE, Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management

David Alleman

Director, Research for Oil & Natural Gas
USDOE

Melissa Klembara

Deputy Director for Portfolio Strategy
U.S. DOE - Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations

Michael McEleney

Senior Advisor
Department of Energy Arctic Energy Office (AEO)

Kyle Kohman

Vice President of Energy Solutions
Santos

James Robinson

Environmental Engineer - Underground Injection Control (UIC)
EPA - Region 10

John Boyle

Commissioner
Alaska Department of Natural Resources