Archives: Speakers

RJ Hardin

RJ Hardin is a Senior Manager with more than a decade of experience in the renewable energy industry. With an engineering background, he has cultivated a diverse career where he has held positions across the full project lifecycle — greenfield pipeline growth, acquisitions, construction, and operations and maintenance of renewable assets. In his current role, […]

Mark Henry

As Chief Engineer and Director, Reliability Outreach at the Texas Reliability Entity (a NERC Regional Entity), Mark is part of a team focused on bulk power grid reliability.  Efforts include long-term reliability assessments, performance monitoring and disturbance event analysis for the Texas Interconnection, sharing how grid transformation and the integration of variable energy, inverter-based resources, […]

Tim Harvey

Tim directs Austin Energy’s Customer Renewable Solutions team, bringing over 30 years of experience in the energy industry, including 19 years in Austin Energy’s solar group. Under his leadership, Austin Energy has developed and expanded its award-winning Residential, Multifamily, and Commercial rebate programs, as well as GreenChoice, Community Solar, Shared Solar, and Solar Standard Offer […]

Dub Taylor

For more than three decades, Dub Taylor has helped advance cost-effective, clean energy technology and policy through his work in the public and private sectors. He currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Texas PACE Authority, and is active on the Boards of several local, state, and national organizations focused on clean energy technology […]

Margo Weisz

Margo has over 30 years of experience building innovative solutions for underserved communities.  Margo has been instrumental in TEPRI’s growth, helping conceptualize and launch TEPRI in 2014 and then serving as a member of the TEPRI Board, before serving in her current role as Executive Director.   Prior to TEPRI, Margo was a founding Partner […]

Barksdale English

Barksdale English was tapped to lead the Public Utility Commission of Texas’ program areas in February 2024 and was later named Deputy Executive Director of the agency in May 2024.  He oversees the commission’s Compliance and Enforcement, Market Analysis, Rules and Projects, and Texas Energy Fund divisions. Barksdale began his work with the Commission in […]

Hala Ballouz

Hala N. Ballouz is the Founder, Board Chair, and Chief Vision Officer of Electric Power Engineers (EPE), a premier power systems advisory firm with more than 500 professionals advancing grid modernization and the global energy transition. A trailblazer in the electric utility space, Hala is recognized for her expertise in integrated transmission and distribution planning, […]

Pat Wood

Pat Wood leads a team at the Hunt Energy Network building and operating a platform of distributed power assets (storage, grid-connected and customer premises generation) across Texas.  They have 31 operating batteries and went operational on their first diesel peaking generator this month, with more on the way.  HEN is also working with select customers […]

Jonathan Tan

Jonathan has been an executive and business leader in the advanced materials and battery industry for over 15 years. At Coreshell, he’s commercializing the only battery anode material that has the unit economics and scale of supply to replace Chinese graphite in the US and EU. 

Ryan Franks

With over 15 years of experience in the battery and energy storage industries, including testing and certification, product and service development, and techno-economic analysis, his mission has been to advance safe, high-performing energy storage. At SES AI, Ryan is responsible for advancing and delivering AI-enhanced, high-performance energy storage systems where reliability, safety, and uptime are […]

José Menéndez

The son of immigrants, Jose Menendez grew up working at his family’s small business located in San Antonio’s West Side. During his terms in office, Menendez passed over 230 bills that benefitted children, seniors, veterans and San Antonio families. Senator Menendez began his public service career in 1997 when he was elected to the San […]

Alison Silverstein

Independent energy consultant with extensive work for utilities, RTOs, DOE, NGOs on grid reliability, energy efficiency, regulatory strategy, technical interoperability, and more. Ten-year leader of North American Synchrophasor Initiative. Past advisor to Chairman Pat Wood at FERC and Texas PUC, electric utility. Board member of TXSES, TEPRI, ACEEE, Austin Resource Management Commission.