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Adding Resilience to the Energy Equation

MCEC Speaker Series Session08 Title Slide 10.22.2020

The Electric Infrastructure Security Council identifies a “Black Sky Hazard” as a catastrophic event that severely disrupts the normal functioning of critical infrastructures in multiple regions for long durations which occur as a result of climate events, cyber terrorism, EMP, or super-storms. Communities, campuses, and companies need to get in front of the train with disaster preparedness to ensure resilience, and energy supply is a critical component of this planning. What does the planning process entail? What expertise and investment will be required, who are the strategic partners in project development, and how will government provide support?

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MODERATOR

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Dr. Nandini Mouli

President
eSai LLC

Dr. Nandini Mouli

President
eSai LLC

Nandini Mouli is the Founder/CEO of eSai LLC, an energy engineering company at Reisterstown, Maryland. Prior to starting eSai LLC, she managed energy and chemical businesses at DuPont and at Maryland Energy Administration (MEA). At MEA working with the Maryland utilities she helped institute financial incentives for Combined Heat and Power (CHP) program for the first time in Maryland. For its contributions in the clean energy field, eSai LLC has received the SBA’s “2018 Maryland Woman-Owned business of the year” and “The innovative Small Business of the year” awards, among others.

Dr. Mouli is an inventor of 49 US and International patents in energy and chemicals fields and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Currently, she is serving as the President of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)-Baltimore and Chair of the Scholarship and Awards Committee of the International Council on Women in Energy and Environmental Leadership (CWEEL).

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PANELISTS

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Brandon Bowser

CHP & Energy Resilience Program Manager
Maryland Energy Administration

Brandon Bowser

CHP & Energy Resilience Program Manager
Maryland Energy Administration

Brandon Bowser is an established energy management professional with both public and private experience. He ties energy management optimization directly into business development through stakeholder engagement and education. Brandon has served at the Maryland Energy Administration as an Energy Program Manager for the Resilient Maryland and Combined Heat and Power Programs since July 2019, and managed various residential and commercial energy incentive programs at MEA in a prior role from 2015-2018. In the interim Brandon worked for Resource Energy, a commercial energy services firm where he managed a team of Energy Analysts in the Utility Redistribution department. He also managed a portfolio of REIT properties for which he performed utility cost recovery analysis, led Resource Energy's Demand Response services department, and assisted clients with jurisdictional energy benchmarking compliance. Brandon holds a Master's Degree in Finance and a Bachelor's Degree in Energy Business & Finance from Penn State University.

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Sen. Sarah Elfreth

Maryland Senator, District 30
Senate Budget & Tax Committee
Maryland General Assembly

Sarah Elfreth

Senator, District 30
Maryland General Assembly

Elected in 2018 to represent Annapolis and southern Anne Arundel County, Senator Sarah Elfreth is the youngest woman ever elected to the Maryland Senate. In her first legislative session, Sarah worked with colleagues across the aisle to pass eight of the nine bills she sponsored on issues ranging from supporting the City of Annapolis, addressing the backlog of untested rape kits, and protecting oysters. Sarah serves on the Budget & Taxation Committee, as the Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on the Chesapeake & Atlantic Coastal Bays Critical Area, and as one of two senators representing Maryland on the multi-state Chesapeake Bay Commission.
She was recently chosen to serve as Chair of the Pensions Subcommittee and Chair of the Joint Committee on Administrative, and Legislative Review.
Outside of the Senate, Sarah teaches political science and public policy at Towson University's Honors College and lives in downtown Annapolis. Despite receiving the "Baby Senator" trophy in 2019 for joining the chamber as its youngest member, Sarah's success in passing legislation earned her the designation on of Baltimore Sun's "Freshman of the Year".

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Pranay Kohli

CEO
amidus

Pranay Kohli

CEO
Amidus

Internationally experienced energy sector executive and consultant. Has advised Fortune 100 corporations, the German, Swedish, Saudi Arabian, Turkish, and Indian Governments, The European Commission, The World Bank, and US Department of Energy (DOE) on Energy issues. Pranay has served on the Advisory Board of Maryland Clean Energy Center (MCEC), Board of Directors of Maryland-DC-Virginia Solar Energy Industry Association (MDV-SEIA), and is an Adviser to Washington DC-based Institute for Energy and Environment Research (IEER). Pranay has earned MS (Physics) and MTech (Energy Systems) degrees from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi; has worked as a solar scientist at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), and studied business administration at Stockholm University (Sweden).

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Annika Moman

Senior Vice President
AECOM

Annika Moman

Senior Vice President
AECOM

Ms. Annika Moman is a Senior Vice President at AECOM and leads the Energy Services Business for North America, providing comprehensive energy services to utilities and public and private sector clients, including distributed generation, electrification, smart energy, and energy efficiency retrofit projects. She has been in the energy industry for 15years, with experience including master planning, program management, and design build contracting. Prior to working in the energy field, Ms Moman was a Marine Corps logistics officer. She holds Mechanical Engineering degrees from the US Naval Academy and San Diego State University, and when the weather and work schedule permits, you'll find her out on her bicycle.

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Lidija Sekaric

National Market Director, Distributed Energy
Siemens

Lidija Sekaric

National Market Director, Distributed Energy
Siemens

In her role as National Business Director, Lidija sets the strategic direction for Siemens business units on the topic of Distributed Energy Systems, with focus on on-site energy generation, energy storage, and advanced control systems, including microgrids and virtual power plants. She leads market approaches to customer segments, policy development, and strategic technology investments.

Lidija has over 15 years of strategic experience in energy and semiconductor industry, and federal government. Prior to joining Siemens she served in a variety of executive and advisory roles at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) where she managed a portfolio across multiple applied energy programs and supported and oversaw a number of national lab programs. Her experience at DOE includes serving as the Director of the DOE SunShot Initiative where she led the near and long-term US government solar program strategy. Lidija has served at the executive committee level for several organizations, including the International Energy Agency (IEA) and currently serves on advisory boards of research institutes and other organizations.

Lidija holds a Ph.D. Applied Physics from Cornell University and has been granted 30 U.S. patents.

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