Energy Champions

This month's Renewable Energy Champion, Alicia Mahon, is a wind energy program manager whose work with buoy technology has contributed to keeping the U.S. offshore wind industry afloat.

Emma Wendt helps Maine's island communities transition to cleaner and more resilient and affordable energy sources often with assistance from the Energy Transitions Initiative Partnership Project.

This edition’s Renewable Energy Champion is NREL’s Anthony Lopez, a geospatial data scientist and senior researcher who was recently named the Most Promising Scientist by Great Minds in STEM.

The first Renewable Energy Champion of the year is Jason Jonkman, a principal engineer in wind energy from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

All the skyscrapers, traffic, and factories used to remind Nina Joffe of warnings in Dr. Suess’ The Lorax. As an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow, she helps marine energy expand and coexist with marine wildlife and ecosystems.

Jake Herb grew up where trucks belched next to horses and buggies. Recently, as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Technology Policy fellow, he helped develop programs to advance water power technology.

Rounding out this year’s featured Renewable Energy Champions is earth scientist Mark Severy of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

It was summer football training that brought Christopher Ruhl to mechanical engineering. Now a Ph.D. candidate and fellow in the Marine Energy Graduate Student Research Program, he uses those skills to study turbulence and and how it affects tidal energy.

At age 17, Claire Gonzales took her first deep ocean dive. Now, as a 2022 fellow in the Marine Energy Graduate Student Research Program, she works on co-locating marine energy with fisheries to help the world protect the ocean one ripple at a time.

Tony Bouza has a passion for heat pumps and says working in energy efficiency is his dream. Find out where his enthusiasm comes from and how he's working to improve homes and buildings around the country.