Stuart M. Dalton

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Stuart M. Dalton

• The U.S. State Department has designated Stuart
  M. Dalton as one of two official U.S. Asia
  Pacific Partnership industry delegates to the
  Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Force. Mr. Dalton is a
  director in the Generation Sector. His current
  research activities cover a variety of generation
  options with special focus on emerging
  generation, renewables, and coal-based
  generation, emission controls, and CO2 capture
  and storage. He joined EPRI in 1976 and has a
  bachelors degree in chemical engineering from
  the University of California at Berkeley.

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Mark S. Duvall

• Dr. Mark Duvalls research as program manager for
  electric transportation focuses on electric,
  plug-in hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles and related
  infrastructure. He is involved in battery systems
  development and testing, electric charging
  infrastructure, and the environmental analysis of
  the air quality and greenhouse gas emissions
  characteristics of plug-in hybrids and other
  electric transportation technologies. Dr. Duvall
  joined EPRI in 2001 and holds a doctorate degree
  in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.

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Neville Holt

• Neville Holt is the recipient of Lifetime
  Achievement awards from EPRI and the Gasification
  Technologies Council and is a technical fellow in
  the Advanced Coal Generation Technology Program.
  He is the technical lead for the CoalFleet
  program of Future Coal Generation Technology
  Options. He joined EPRI in 1994 and received his
  bachelors and masters degrees in chemistry from
  Cambridge University.

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Christine King

• Christine King is program manager of materials
  reliability in the Nuclear Power Sector. This
  program is the leading industry resource for
  material-related issues affecting the reactor
  coolant system pressure boundary. The program
  focuses on improving the fundamental
  understanding of materials performance in
  pressurized water reactors, and developing
  technologies for early detection and mitigation
  of emerging issues. With EPRI since 2001 she has
  a masters degree in business administration from
  Lynchburg College.

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Carl L. Latiolais

• Carl Latiolais is program manager for the
  Nondestructive Evaluation Program, with a focus
  on the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  Section XI, Appendix VIII qualification program.
  The U.S. nuclear fleet relies on this program to
  qualify procedures and personnel for ultrasonic
  examination of safety-related piping and vessels.
  He joined EPRI in 1994 and has a technical degree
  in nondestructive testing technology from T.H.
  Harris Vocational Technical School in Louisiana.

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Victor Niemeyer

• Dr. Victor Niemeyer is a technical executive in
  the Global Climate Change Program. His research
  focuses on helping energy companies manage risks
  from global climate change, particularly cost and
  competitive market implications of potential
  greenhouse gas policies. He has a doctorate in
  economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
  His fields of emphasis are energy economics,
  power market simulation, and environmental
  economics.

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Ellen M. Petrill

• Ellen Petrill is director of public/private
  partnerships. She creates partnerships to foster
  greater communications and awareness of research
  and development trends in the electric sector
  among stakeholder groups, regulators, and others.
  Her current activities focus on strategies and
  technologies to reduce climate change impacts,
  such as advanced coal, energy efficiency, the
  intelligent grid, and distributed energy
  resources. She joined EPRI in 1984 and has
  bachelors and masters degrees in mechanical
  engineering from Stanford University.

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Andrew J. Phillips

• Dr. Andrew Phillips holds three U.S. patents and
  is the author of more than 60 journal and
  conference publications. He is a senior program
  manager for transmission lines and increased
  power flow research, focusing on overhead
  transmission, underground transmission, increased
  power flow, and high-voltage direct current.
  Special areas of interest are non-ceramic
  insulators, lightning and grounding, sensor
  development, and daytime corona inspection. He
  has a doctorate in electrical engineering from
  the University of the Witwatersrand in
  Johannesburg, South Africa, and is a registered
  professional engineer.

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Richard G. Richels

• Dr. Richard Richels is a senior technical
  executive for global climate change research. He
  has served on national and international advisory
  panels, including committees of the U.S.
  Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S.
  Environmental Protection Agency, and the National
  Research Council. He served as an expert witness
  at the DOEs hearings on the National Energy
  Strategy and testified at Congressional hearings
  on priorities in global climate change research.
  He was awarded masters and doctorate degrees in
  decision science from Harvard Universitys
  Division of Applied Sciences.

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Stan T. Rosinski

• Stan Rosinski is program manager of technology
  innovation, where he is responsible for
  incubating technology innovation within EPRI by
  directing fundamental, innovative, cross-cutting
  RD to accelerate the application of advanced
  science and technology. With EPRI since 1995, he
  has a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering
  and a masters degree in metallurgy from the
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and received the
  honorary Professional Nuclear Engineer degree
  from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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John Scheibel

• John Scheibel has been awarded several patents
  and has authored numerous technical papers. He is
  a program manager in the combustion turbines and
  combined cycle program, focusing on gas turbine/
  combined-cycle design and related operations and
  maintenance issues. The program addresses all
  50/60-Hz models used in power generation above
  20 MW. He joined EPRI in 1987 as a project
  manager and has bachelors and masters degrees
  in mechanical engineering from the University of
  Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

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Jack C. Spanner, Jr.

• Jack Spanner is a program manager in
  nondestructive evaluation, focusing on nuclear
  reactor vessel head penetration nozzles,
  thin-film phased array search units, eddy current
  examination of lead sheathed distribution cable,
  American Society of Mechanical Engineers codes,
  reactor vessel internals inspection for license
  renewal, and filmless radiography. He is also
  responsible for reactor vessel integrity issues.
  He joined EPRI in 1993 and has a masters degree
  in welding engineering from Ohio State
  University.

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Luke van der Zel

• Dr. Luke van der Zel is a project manager and
  technical expert in the substations program,
  focusing on sulfur hexafluoride insulation and
  leak detection, gas-insulated substations, power
  transformers, geomagnetically induced currents,
  sensors for substation monitoring, and wireless
  applications for substations. His research
  extends to field applications in EPRI member
  substations. He joined EPRI in 2001 and has
  bachelors and doctorate degrees in electrical
  engineering from the University of the
  Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Thomas F. Wilson

• Dr. Thomas Wilson is a senior technical leader in
  global climate change, focusing on costs of
  climate change policies and the role of
  technology research and development in reducing
  these costs estimating potential economic
  benefits from slowing or averting climate change
  exploring flexible mechanisms in climate policies
  such as emissions trading and providing
  information and methods to help electric
  utilities make decisions in the face of climate
  policy uncertainty. He joined EPRI in 1985 and
  received his masters and doctorate degrees in
  operations research from Stanford University.