State, Local, and Tribal Integrated Applications Group
The State, Local, and Tribal Integrated Applications Group leads NREL's work with state energy, rural development, integrated systems development, energy-water issues, and tribal energy projects.
Kelli Anderson
Lynn Billman
Misty Conrad
Alexander Dane
Scott Haase
David Hurlbut
David Peterson
Roger Taylor, group manager
Kelli Anderson
Administrative Assistant II
Areas of expertise
- Policy and procedures
- Contract/procurement
- Financial management
- Communication/outreach
- Foreign travel
Primary research interests
- Policy and environmental
- Energy planning and project development
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Lynn Billman
Senior Project Leader II
Areas of expertise
- Analysis, modeling, and projection of capital requirements and investments at NREL
- Analysis of renewable energy impact on climate change
Primary research interests
- Disaster recovery in Greensburg, Kansas
- State Technical Assistance Program
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Misty Conrad
Technical Assistance Program Manager
Areas of expertise
- Cross-cutting environmental resource assessment and analysis
- State and local program and policy analysis
- Rural development applications
- Agricultural sector applications
- Integrated systems development
- Federal grant and loans technical review: design, development, process and evaluation
Primary research interests
- Farm security and rural investment programs
- Strategic energy management planning
- Carbon neutral communities
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Alexander Dane
Research Partner
Analysis expertise
- Sustainable community design
- Renewable energy policy
- State and municipal resource planning
Primary research interests
- Consensus building in the energy planning process
- Community and municipal energy planning outreach
- Market feasibility of emerging renewable energy technology
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Scott Haase
Senior Project Leader
Areas of expertise
- Engineering and economic feasibility analysis of renewable energy (RE) projects
- Design and sizing of RE systems
- RE project planning and deployment through public/private partnerships
- Biomass and biofuel resources, technologies, policies and development issues
- Tribal wind and biomass energy projects
Primary research interests
- Energy resource management
- Tribal/governmental/corporate energy project development and technical assistance
- Utilization of state and national policies and incentives for renewable energy development
- Use of biomass fast pyrolysis for heat, power, bio-oil and bio-char production
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David Hurlbut
Senior Analyst
Areas of expertise
- Policy and legislative analysis
- Statistical analysis and econometrics
- Optimization modeling
- Cost-benefit analysis
Primary research interests
- Economic incentives and market behavior affecting energy efficiency and renewable energy deployment
- State policies for energy efficiency and renewable energy
- Coordinating state and federal renewable energy policies within multi-state regional transmission organizations
- Competitive electricity markets
- Renewable energy infrastructure issues
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Roger Taylor
Group Manager
Areas of expertise
- Electric utility industry
- Photovoltaic applications
- International applications for rural development
- Tribal energy applications
Primary research interests
- EERE applications development
- Strategic energy planning
- Renewable energy technology deployment
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