Keynote Session

Open to ALL registered attendees.

DATE: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
TIME: 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
LOCATION: Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom

Welcome
David Wagman, Chief Editor, Power Engineering magazine
COAL-GEN Program Committee Chair

Featured Speakers

Mr. James F. Wood
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal
Office of Fossil Energy, Department of Energy

James F. Wood is currently Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal in the Office of Fossil Energy (FE). In this position, he is responsible for the management and direction of the Office’s clean coal research and development programs. Chief among these is the Carbon Sequestration program, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FE’s $3.4 billion portfolio of Recovery Act projects.

Wood has over 30 years of experience in the power industry. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Babcock Power Inc. (BPI), one of the major US-based designer/manufacturers of environmental, pressure part, heat exchanger, combustion equipment and after-market services for the power generation industry.

From 1996 to 2001, Wood was president of Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), a $1.5 billion integrated world-wide provider of boiler-systems and after-market services to the power industry. He was also executive vice president of McDermott International Inc., the parent of B&W.

From 1988 to 1996, Wood was president of WTI International Inc. (WTII) and managing director of Wheelabrator Environmental Systems (WESI). WTII was the international development arm of WESI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. (WTI). WESI is an independent power plant owner-operator with approximately 900 MW of capacity fueled by natural gas, waste-coal, biomass, and municipal solid waste. In 1995, Waste Management Inc.
acquired 100% of WTI.

Wood has resided abroad for significant periods of time in Italy, India, Belgium, Colombia, and Ecuador and was responsible for B&W’s foreign subsidiaries and ventures in China, Turkey, Egypt and Indonesia. He was appointed to the National Coal Council by three Administrations, and was a member of the US-Egypt President’s Council, a federal advisory body to Vice President Al Gore.

Wood is an ASME Fellow and Trustee of Clarkson University. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson and an MBA with a focus on international economics from Kent State University.

Dr. Robert Wayland
Leader Energy Strategies Group
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Dr. Robert Wayland is the Leader of the Combustion Group for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards. Dr. Wayland has over 20 years experience in air quality programs, including experience with EPA’s ozone, particulate matter and air toxics programs and as a Senior Scientist with Science Applications International Corporation’s (SAIC) Environmental Science and Engineering Division. In his current position, Dr. Wayland manages the development of air regulations for industrial and utility combustion sources, which are regulated under sections 111, 112 and 129 of the Clean Air Act. Currently, he is involved in the Agency’s development of a multi-pollutant emissions strategy for the utility
sector, which includes the final Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) and the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR), which were promulgated in March 2005. Additionally, he is involved in the Agency’s legislative effort for multi-pollutant controls for the utility sector, which is referred to as the Clear Skies Act legislation.

Dr. Wayland received his B.A. (1981) and M.S. (1983) in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, and his Ph.D. (1991) in Atmospheric Sciences from N.C. State University. He is currently an active member of the American Meteorological Association and the American Geophysical Union, and has served as an adjunct Assistant Professor at NCSU in the Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department.

Prof. Frank Clemente
Professor of Social Science
Penn State University

Frank Clemente is a Senior Member of the Graduate Faculty at Penn State and former Director of the University’s Environmental Policy Center. Professor Clemente’s research specialization is the socioeconomic impact of energy policy, especially on families, minorities, business and communities. He has published more than 100 articles in energy related media including Public Utilities Fortnightly, Electric Light & Power, Electrical World, Nuclear News, World Oil, American Coal, Oil and Gas Journal and the Journal of Commerce. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation. Professor Clemente was first listed in the Social Science section of American Men and Women of Science in 1979. He has a doctorate in demography from the University of Tennessee. The Senior Class of
2008 voted him “Best Professor” at Penn State.