Sustainable Transportation Fuels – Challenges and Opportunities for Designing Good Metrics

Originally aired September 22, 2015

The last in a four-part webinar series on near-term actions to accelerate the transition of transportation fuels toward sustainability and a low-carbon future, this session examines the challenges and opportunities for developing objective, grounded metrics to measure and characterize the complex socio-political-techno-economic enterprise of transportation energy — sounding out panelists on considerations for developing valuable frameworks and using metrics that diverse stakeholders can respect and understand.

Speakers

Dr. Gary Dirks (Moderator)

Director, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability & LightWorks, Arizona State University

Dr. Gary Dirks is the Director of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and of LightWorks, an Arizona State University initiative that capitalizes on ASU’s strengths in solar energy and other light-inspired research. Before joining ASU, he was the President of BP Asia Pacific and the President of BP China.

Dr. James Hinkley

Project Leader, CSIRO Energy Technology

Dr. James Hinkley is a Project Leader at CSIRO Energy Technology, bringing experience from BHP Research, Rio Tinto, and nine years at CSIRO concentrating on solar thermal research. His research interests include hydrogen production from thermochemical water splitting cycles, techno-economic evaluations of CSP potential in Australia, and solar and solar-fossil hybrid fuels.

Dr. Cheryl Martin

Founder, Harwich Partners; Former Deputy Director for Commercialization, ARPA-E

Dr. Cheryl Martin is the founder of Harwich Partners and manages a process to assist private technology companies and investor-owned electric utilities in developing new business models and partnerships. Previously, she served as the Deputy Director for Commercialization for the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA-E), a U.S. Department of Energy initiative.

Dr. Andrew Maynard

Professor & Director, Risk Innovation Lab, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Dr. Andrew Maynard is a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University and Director of the Risk Innovation Lab — a center focused on transforming how we think about and act on risk. His research and professional activities focus on risk innovation and the responsible development and use of emerging technologies, including nanotechnology and synthetic biology.

Dr. Eric Miller

Hydrogen Production and Delivery Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy

Dr. Eric Miller has worked for over 20 years on alternative energy research and currently serves as the Hydrogen Production and Delivery Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy. His career has focused on research in alternative fuels, including work at Bell Laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the NASA Lewis Research Center.

Louise Vickery

Manager of Renewable Futures, Australian Renewable Energy Agency

Louise Vickery is Manager of Renewable Futures at the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, where she oversees more than 170 contracts aimed at improving the competitiveness of renewables through researching, demonstrating, and commercializing emerging solar, ocean, geothermal, and bio energy technologies. She has represented the Australian Government on IEA working parties and the International Partnership on Energy Efficiency Cooperation.