Oregon's Energy Future Conference
The Business of Clean Energy & Efficiency
Jesse Jenkins, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Jesse Jenkins is an assistant professor at Princeton University with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment and courtesy appointments at the School of Public and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. He is a macro-scale energy systems engineer with a focus on the rapidly evolving electricity sector. Jesse leads the Princeton ZERO Lab (Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory), which improves and applies optimization-based energy systems models to evaluate low-carbon energy technologies and generate insights to guide policy and planning decisions. Jesse earned a PhD and SM from MIT and a BS from the University of Oregon. Jesse worked previously as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and spent six years as an energy and climate policy analyst prior to embarking on his academic career, including as an analyst at Renewable Northwest.
With recent legislation, Oregon has set in motion an ambitious plan to be carbon-free by 2040. Join our panel of thought leaders for an overview and update of the state’s primary drivers for decarbonization. Panelists will share their insights into potential barriers, costs, economic and environmental benefits, as well as how Oregon’s path to decarbonization must ensure benefits flow to communities most adversely affected by climate change.
Moderator:
John Cornwell, Senior Energy Policy Analyst, Oregon Dept. of Energy
Speakers:
Kristen Sheeran, Energy, Climate, and Transportation Policy Advisor, Governor Kate Brown’s Office, State of Oregon
Sunny Radcliffe, Director, Government Affairs & Environmental Policy, Portland General Electric
Bob Jenks, Executive Director, Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon
Nick Johnson, Executive Director, Lake County Resources Initiative
Climate change hazards—such as extreme heat, more variable precipitation, and more frequent and intense wildfires—are expected to affect several dimensions of Oregon’s energy sector—from power planning, transmission and distribution of electricity, to the storage and distribution of home-heating and transportation fuels. This moderated panel will discuss how various energy systems are affected by climate hazards and their adaptive capacity—the ability to adjust and respond to climate-induced risk.
Moderator:
Maya Buchanan, Senior Climate Energy Policy Analyst, Oregon Department of Energy
Speakers:
James Gall, IRP Manager, Avista
Allen Fore, Vice President, Public Affairs, Kinder Morgan
Dr. Hal Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration. Portland State University
Rodney Price, Assistant General Manager, Eugene Water & Electric Board
Evolving and transformative technologies will be needed to fully decarbonize the energy delivery systems of today while maintaining the core values of safe, affordable, reliable and resilient energy. This panel will present examples of the technologies being studied and deployed to achieve those objectives.
Moderator:
Adam Schultz, Lead, Electricity & Markets Policy Group, Oregon Dept. of Energy
Speakers:
Chris Kroeker, Emerging Technology Program Manager, NW Natural
Jeffrey Preece, Senior Program Manager, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Jeff Navin, Director of External Affairs, TerraPower
Darren Murtaugh, Senior Manager, Grid Edge Solutions, Portland General Electric
Melissa Powers
Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law; Director, Green Energy Institute
Lewis & Clark Law School
Melissa Powers is a Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School, and she was a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar in 2014-2015 researching Denmark and Spain’s renewable energy laws. Melissa is also the founder and faculty director of the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School, an organization that designs strategies to a transition to a zero-carbon energy system. She was a public interest environmental litigator for seven years. Melissa teaches international and U.S. climate change law, electricity regulation, renewable energy law, the Clean Air Act, and administrative law.
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