Cornell Energy Connection

John Stevens is senior managing consultant in the resource planning group at Energy + Environmental Economics (E3), Inc., which seeks to anticipate how generation resources and electricity markets will change as the grid evolves and more renewables come online. His past and current E3 projects include analyzing market opportunities for green hydrogen as an energy storage medium in the power sector and developing models to derive ancillary services needs using machine learning. Prior to working at E3, Dr. Stevens worked in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office on the H2@Scale project, which targeted reductions in green hydrogen production costs. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, where he focused on multiphysics modeling of solar fuel production devices.

Katrina Fritzis the Executive Director of the Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative leading education and outreach on clean energy policy and market developmentrelated to distributed energy resources and renewable fuels. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Advent Technologiesand was recently appointed to the New Jersey Governor’s Fuel Cell Task Force.As Principal of KM Fritz LLC, Katrina has provided advisory and consulting services to global industrial firms related to business and communications strategy in distributed energy generation marketsand has served as an expert to the European Commission on clean energy programs. Katrina has held leadership positions at ClearEdge Power (formerly UTC Power), Plug Power and Case Western Reserve University, leading strategic planning, government relations, business development, and corporate communications. She has also held leadership positions in numerous trade associations and on advisory boards including: the California Hydrogen Business Council, the International Energy Agency’s Fuel Cell Working Group; the U.S. Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association; the Alliance for Clean Energy New York; and the Connecticut Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Coalition. She has additionallyworked in the software industry in California and the United Kingdom. Katrina holds aBA degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

Paul Mutolo is the director of external partnerships for the Energy Materials Center at Cornell University (emc2). He also is co-founder and president of Standard Hydrogen Corporation, which aims to bring the benefits of hydrogen energy storage to the Eastern U.S. Dr. Mutolo’s professional work focuses on accelerating technology development and deployment through strategic partnerships. At emc2, he builds and assists projects between Cornell researchers developing new materials for batteries and fuel cells and industry partners in and beyond New York State commercializing products in these sectors. Dr. Mutolo is a founding board member and officer of the New York Battery & Energy Storage Technology (NY-BEST) consortium and holds a Ph.D. in inorganic and solid state chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his M.S in chemistry from Cornell University.

Tanya Peacock is senior director of government affairs and policy at Bloom Energy, where she is responsible for state and local legislative analysis; local and regional engagement; and climate, electricity, and renewable gas policy development, with a focus on hydrogen. Previously, Ms. Peacock worked at SoCalGas leading renewable gas policy development, cap and trade policy and implementation, the rate design group, participation in interstate pipeline rate cases at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and development of energy efficiency programs. She is on the boards of the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters, the California Hydrogen Business Council (Board Secretary and Co-Chair of Advocacy Committee), and the American Biogas Council. Ms. Peacock holds a B.A. from Mills College and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Cornell University.