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Panel Biographical Information
Lawrence T. Papay (NAE) is currently a consultant with a variety of clients in electric
power and other energy areas. His expertise and knowledge range across a wide variety
of electric system technologies, from production, to transmission and distribution, utility
management and systems, and end-use technologies. He has held positions including
senior vice president for the Integrated Solutions Sector, Science Applications
International Corporation, and senior vice president and general manager of Bechtel
Technology and Consulting. He also held several positions at Southern California Edison,
including senior vice president, vice president, general superintendent, and director of
research and development (R&D), with responsibilities for areas including bulk power
generation, system planning, nuclear power, environmental operations, and development
of the organization and plans for the company’s R&D efforts. Dr. Papay’s professional
affiliations currently include or have included the Electric Power Research Institute’s
Research Advisory Committee; the Atomic Industrial Forum; the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Energy Research Advisory Board, Laboratory Operation Board and the
Environmental Management Advisory Board; the Department of Homeland Security
S&T Advisory Committee; chair of the California Council on Science and Technology
and the Renewable Energy Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering. He received a B.S. degree in physics from Fordham University and S.M.
and Sc.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Allen J. Bard (NAS) is professor of chemistry and biochemistry and holds the Norman
Hackerman/Welch Regents Chair in chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin. His
research interests include electro-organic chemistry, photo-electrochemistry,
electrogenerated chemiluminescence, electroanalytical chemistry, and fuel cells. His
interests include energy policy related to fossil fuels and renewable energy sources. He
has published widely and is the winner of numerous honors and awards including the
Willard Gibbs Award, the Pauling Award, and the Priestley Metal. He was president of
the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists and served as editor-in-chief of the
Journal of the American Chemical Society from 1982 to 2001. He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences. He has served on the NRC’s Energy Engineering Board
(EEB), and has also served as chair of the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology,
and chair of the EEB Committee on Potential Applications of Concentrated Solar
Photons. He received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Harvard University.
Rakesh Agrawal (NAE) is a Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor in the School of
Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Previously, he was an Air Products Fellow
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at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., where he has worked from 1980 to 2004. A major
thrust of his research is related to energy issues and includes novel processes for
fabrication of low-cost solar cells, biomass and coal to liquid fuel conversion, hydrogen
production from renewable resources, and energy systems analysis. His research interests
include basic and applied research in gas separations, process development, synthesis of
distillation column configurations, adsorption and membrane separation processes, novel
separation processes, gas liquefaction processes, cryogenics, and thermodynamics. He
holds more than 116 U.S. and 500 foreign patents. These patents are used in over one
hundred chemical plants with a capital expenditure in excess of a billion dollars. He has
authored 66 technical papers and given many lectures and presentations. He chaired the
Separations Division and the Chemical Technology Operating Council of the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and also a Gordon Conference on Separations.
He was a member of the NRC Committee on Alternatives and Strategies for Future
Hydrogen Production and Use. He is currently a member of the AIChE’s board of
directors and also it’s Energy Commission. He is also a member of the NRC Board on
Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES). He has received several awards including, J
& E Hall Gold Medal from the Institute of Refrigeration (U.K.), Presidential Citation for
Outstanding Achievement from the University of Delaware and from the AIChE:
Gerhold, Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology, Institute Lecture, Chemical
Engineering Practice, and Fuels and Petrochemicals Division awards. Dr. Agrawal
received a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technologies in Kanpur, India; a M.Ch.E.
from the University of Delaware; and an Sc.D. in chemical engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
William Chameides (NAS) is the dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and
Earth Sciences at Duke University. He is the former chief scientist for Environmental
Defense, and before that the Smithgall Chair and Regents Professor of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests
include atmospheric chemistry, tropospheric gas-phase and aqueous-phase chemistry; air
pollution; global chemical cycles; biospheric-atmospheric interaction; and global and
regional environmental change. His NRC service includes serving as chair of the
Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry and the Committee on Ozone-Forming Potential
of Reformulated Gasoline, and as a member of the Committee on Tropospheric Ozone
Formation and Measurement. Dr. Chameides is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and a former member of the NRC Board on Environmental Studies and
Toxicology. He received a B.A. degree from the State University of New York at
Binghamton and M.Ph. and Ph.D. degrees in geology and geophysics from Yale
University.
Jane H. Davidson is professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota
and director of the Solar Energy Laboratory. Her current areas of research include solar
systems for residential buildings, efficiency in building envelopes, and solar thermo-
chemical cycles to produce fuels. She is a past editor of the Journal of Solar Energy
Engineering and chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Solar
Energy Division. She has served an elected member of the boards of the American Solar
Energy Society (ASES) and the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation. Her efforts
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in research and engineering education have been recognized with the 2007 American
Solar Energy Society Charles Greeley Abbot Award, the 2005 University of Minnesota
Distinguished Women Scholar Award in Science and Engineering, the 2004 ASME John
I. Yellott Award, and the 2000 John Tate Award for Excellence in Undergraduate
Advising. She is a fellow of ASME and ASES. She has B.S. and M.S. degrees in
engineering science and mechanics from the University of Tennessee and a Ph.D. degree
in mechanical engineering from Duke University.
J. Michael Davis is associate laboratory director (ALD) for Energy and Environment at
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) where he is responsible for ensuring that
PNNL’s energy and environmental programs continue to deliver outstanding science and
technology solutions to the most important energy and environmental issues facing the
nation and the Department of Energy. Mr. Davis is known nationally as a spokesperson
for hydrogen, renewable energy, and energy efficiency policy and technology issues. He
has provided leadership for energy-related businesses and organizations, including
responsibilities as president and CEO, serving as assistant secretary of energy, as
president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, and as chair of the National
Hydrogen Association. Mr. Davis also served as an associate professor of mathematics
and civil engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) following service in
Vietnam. He received his B.S. degree in civil engineering from the USAFA and his M.S.
degree from the University of Illinois.
Kelly Fletcher is the advanced technology leader for sustainable energy programs at GE
Global Research. During his 18-year career in the nuclear energy the division of GE
Energy, he held various technical and leadership positions, including responsibility for
regulatory services, e-business, strategic marketing, business development, and quality.
In 2005, Mr. Fletcher was appointed general manager of nuclear technology where he
managed activities for GE’s nuclear products and services related to new product
introduction, R&D, and intellectual property management. In 2006, he was appointed to
his current position, in which he is responsible for technology and business development
in key sustainable energy areas—advanced energy storage, hydrogen technologies, CO2-
free power generation, and concepts for advanced nuclear power plants. Mr. Fletcher
received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of
California, Berkeley.
Charles F. Gay was named corporate vice president and general manager of the Solar
Business Group at Applied Materials in 2006. An industry veteran with over 30 years of
experience in the solar industry, Dr. Gay is responsible for establishing and building
Applied Materials’ solar business. Dr. Gay is also a co-founder of the Greenstar
Foundation, an organization that delivers solar power and internet access for health,
education, and microenterprise projects to small villages in the developing world. Dr.
Gay began his career in 1975 designing solar power system components for
communications satellites at Spectrolab, Inc., and later joined ARCO Solar, where he
established the research and development program and led the commercialization of
single crystal silicon and thin film technologies. In 1990, Dr. Gay became president and
chief operating officer of Siemens Solar Industries. From 1994 to 1997 he served as
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director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the
world’s leading laboratory for energy efficiency and renewable energy research and
technology. In 1997, Dr. Gay served as president and chief executive officer of ASE
Americas, Inc., and in 2001 became chair of the advisory board at SunPower
Corporation. He holds numerous patents for solar cell and module construction and is the
recipient of the Gold Medal for Achievement from the World Renewable Energy
Congress. Dr. Gay has a doctorate degree in physical chemistry from the University of
California, Riverside.
Charles H. Goodman had a long career in electric utility research and development with
Southern Company—primarily with regard to developing and improving power
generation technologies and in addressing their associated public policy issues. His many
contributions span heat transfer, emissions controls, environmental science, and advanced
generation technologies. Prior to retirement in 2007 he was he was the senior vice
president for generation policy for Southern Company. His responsibilities included
serving as chair of the board for the FutureGen Industrial Alliance. Prior to 2006 he held
the position of senior vice president of research and environmental policy. In that position
he served as the chief environmental officer for Southern Company. He also directed
R&D, environmental policy, environmental research, and compliance strategy
development efforts for Southern Company. He served for many years on the Electric
Power Research Institute’s (EPRI) Research Advisory Committee and was chair of its
Environment Sector Council. He is a member of the National Research Council/National
Academy of Sciences Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. He served on the
NRC Committee on Programmatic Review of DOE’s Office of Power Technology, which
reviewed the suite of renewable energy R&D technology programs. He has chaired the
Environmental Staff Committee of the Business Roundtable and was a member of the
Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. His
responsibilities have included oversight of the Power Systems Development Facility in
cooperation with the DOE. Dr. Goodman received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
mechanical engineering from Tulane University and his undergraduate degree from
University of Texas at Arlington. He is a fellow of ASME.
Sossina M. Haile is professor of materials science and of chemical engineering at the
California Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in materials science and
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As part of her studies, Dr.
Haile spent 2 years at the Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart,
Germany, first as a Fulbright Fellow then as a Humboldt Fellow. Before assuming her
present position at Caltech in 1996, she was a member of the faculty at the University of
Washington. Her research broadly encompasses solid state ionic materials and devices,
with particular focus on fuel cells. She has established a new class of fuel cells based on
solid acid electrolytes and demonstrated record power densities for solid oxide fuel cells.
Dr. Haile has published over 100 papers and holds several patents on these and related
topics, and she has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international
conferences. In 2008 she was awarded an American Competitiveness and Innovation
Fellowship from the National Science Foundation in recognition of her “her timely and
transformative research in the energy field and her dedication to inclusive mentoring,
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education and outreach across many levels.” Since 2005 Dr. Haile has been a member of
the NRC National Materials Advisory Board.
Nathan S. Lewis is the George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry at California Institute
of Technology (Caltech). His research interests include light-induced electron transfer
reactions, both at surfaces and in transition metal complexes, and the photochemistry of
semiconductor-liquid interfaces. Dr. Lewis has been a faculty member at Caltech since
1988 and has served as professor since 1991. He also served as the principal investigator
at the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992.
From 1981 to 1986, he was a faculty member at Stanford University—an assistant
professor from 1981 to 1985 and a tenured associate professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr.
Lewis has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-
Scholar, and a Presidential Young Investigator. He received the Fresenius Award in
1990, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 1991, the Orton Memorial Lecture award in
2003, the Princeton Environmental Award in 2003, and the Michael Faraday Medal of
the Royal Society of Electrochemistry in 2008. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the
Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Energy & Environmental Science. Dr. Lewis has
published more than 300 papers and supervised approximately 60 graduate students and
postdoctoral associates. He received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Karen L. Palmer is the Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF)
in Washington, D.C., and the director of RFF’s Electricity and Environment Program. Dr.
Palmer specializes in the economics of environmental regulation of the electricity sector
and the cost-effectiveness of energy efficiency programs. Her most recent work has
focused on renewable energy and controls of multi-pollutants and carbon emissions from
electrical generating plants. She has done extensive work analyzing different aspects of
policy design for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. She is co-author of the book,
Alternating Currents: Electricity Markets and Public Policy. Dr. Palmer previously
served as an economist in the Office of Economic Policy at the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission. She received a Ph.D. degree in economics from Boston College.
Jeffrey M. Peterson is currently the program manager for the Energy Resources Group
at the New York State Energy Research and Authority, the primary research program for
renewable and natural resource development. The goal of the program is to develop
cooperative initiatives to introduce new energy and environmental technologies into the
marketplace. Research projects range from partnering with New York State businesses to
develop new technologies to supply the worldwide market for renewable energy,
implementing a workforce training program for renewable technology, and sharing the
risk of establishing new business enterprises or models to meet customer demand for
renewable energy. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in wood science and technology
from the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. degree in industrial administration
from Union College.
Karl R. Rábago is vice president for Distributed Energy Services with Austin Energy.
Formerly the director of government and regulatory affairs for AES Wind Generation, he
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has nearly 20 years experience in the renewable energy and sustainability fields, having
held positions in academia, business, government, and the not-for-profit sector. He has
served as a deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department Energy, as a public utility
commissioner for the State of Texas, and as a managing director and principal of the
energy and resources team at Rocky Mountain Institute. Mr. Rábago chairs the board of
the Center for Resource Solutions, which manages the Green-e Certification program for
green power and renewable energy credit products. He has a bachelor of business
administration degree in business management from Texas A&M University, a juris
doctorate from the University of Texas, and he holds LL.M. degrees from Pace
University School of Law (environmental law) and the U.S. Army Judge Advocate
General’s School (military law).
Carl J. Weinberg is the principal of Weinberg Associates, which he founded in 1993
after 19 years with Pacific Gas and Electric Company where he managed the energy
research and development program. Weinberg Associates was formed with the primary
objective of accelerating the introduction of renewable and distributed power systems.
His expertise covers technical, regulatory, policy, and environmental perspectives related
to energy use. Mr. Weinberg's most recent activities involve policy issues and their
technical considerations in the restructuring of the utility industry, with particular
emphasis on the concept of sustainability in a competitive framework, and the
introduction of distributed resources. He serves on the boards and working level
committees of numerous energy efficiency and renewable energy organizations in the
public and private sector. He was the chair of the review panel for California's Public
Interest Energy Research Program.
Kurt E. Yeager is executive director of the Galvin Electricity Initiative and former
president and chief executive officer of Electric Power Research Institute. Previously, he
was the director of energy R&D planning for the EPA Office of Research. He also was
with the MITRE Corporation as associate head of the Environmental Systems
Department. Mr. Yeager was a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Nuclear Research
Officer’s Program while serving 7 years on active duty. He is a fellow of the ASME and
its Industry Advisory Board, a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, and
he serves on the boards of the U.S. Energy Association and the National Coalition for
Advanced Manufacturing. He has served on the executive board of the National Coal
Council as well as several National Academy of Engineering committees and the Energy
Research Advisory Board to the Secretary of Energy. Mr. Yeager received a bachelor’s
degree from Kenyon College.
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