Rob GramLich

Rob Gramlich is Founder and President of Grid Strategies LLC, a Washington DC-based consultancy focused on transmission and power markets for a reliable, affordable, and sustainable power system.  He co-founded Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, Working for Advanced Transmission Technologies (WATT Coalition), Advancing Modern Powerlines (AMP Coalition), the Macro Grid Initiative, the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition, RENEW Northeast, and the Future Power Markets Forum. Rob and Grid Strategies have appeared recently as experts in national news stories in the Washington Post, Fox Business, New York Times, NPR, C-SPAN, and the Wall Street Journal. Rob was formerly SVP and Interim CEO, American Wind Energy Association, Economic Advisor to FERC Chairman Pat Wood III, and Senior Economist at PJM Interconnection LLC. Rob has a BA with honors in Economics from Colby College and a Master of Public Policy degree from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Jeffery Goldmeer

Dr. Jeffrey Goldmeer is a Senior Director of Technology Strategy within GE Vernova’s corporate Strategy & Innovation organization. His primary focus is leading cross business teams to deliver investment recommendations for a variety of technologies including hydrogen and e-fuels. Dr. Goldmeer is also co-creator and co-host of GE Vernova’s award-winning decarbonization podcast, Cutting Carbon, which has over 130,000 downloads in 155 countries.

Dr. Goldmeer is an expert on topics related to the energy transition as well as low carbon fuels and combustion. He led multiple first of a kind projects demonstrating operation of both aeroderivative and heavy-duty gas turbines on blends of hydrogen and natural gas.

Dr. Goldmeer has been invited to policy discussions, technical meetings, and webinars with multiple government, non-government policy/advocacy organizations, universities, and investment firms. These include the US Department of Energy, the US Department of State, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Business Council of Australia, Princeton University, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Bank of America, and multiple non-US energy ministries.

Prior to joining GE Vernova, Dr. Goldmeer was a Senior Research Scientist at Southwest Sciences, and a National Research Council Post-Doctorate Research Associate at NASA. Dr. Goldmeer holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has 13 patents, over 100 conference papers/presentations, and contributed to three recent books on hydrogen and renewable fuels.

Derek Stenclik

Derek Stenclik is a Founding Partner of Telos Energy, an analytics and engineering firm specializing in renewable integration, grid planning, and power system reliability. Mr. Stenclik is a recognized expert on wind, solar, and battery integration, resource adequacy, and power markets. Prior to founding Telos Energy, Derek spent eight years in GE Power’s Energy Consulting department as the Senior Manager of Power System Strategy and holds a master’s degree in Applied Economics from Cornell University.