Mr. Deyoe co-founded Texas-based Integral Power, LLC in 2000. Integral Power is a development company focused on waste heat and waste fuel recovery combined heat and power (CHP) projects. Mr. Deyoe is an 'Aggie' Chemical Engineer with over eighteen years experience in power project development, project engineering, gasification and related industrial equipment sales. He is well known in the Houston cogeneration industry, with past tours of duty at Northern Engineering, Destec Energy, The Wing Group and Process Sales Company. [Email Ray]

 

One of the founding directors of Texas CHP Initiative, Rich Herweck has provided leadership to the Initiative in passing CHP legislation in the 81st Session of the Texas Legislature. The new law requires CHP feasibility studies in certain new or renovated government buildings. In 2007, Herweck was instrumental in inclusion of CHP in the energy efficiency rulemaking. Beginning in the early 1980's, Herweck negotiated gas service to some of the first industrial cogeneration customers in Texas. Rich has been in energy management for over forty years, working in natural gas distribution, marketing and project development. He started with a BBA in industrial management at North Texas and later received a Houston Baptist University Executive Management MBA. Using integrity and determination Rich has successfully competed with major oil & gas companies, as well as Enron and Dynegy, marketing natural gas to industrial end-users and electric utilities along the Houston Ship Channel and across the US. Herweck has been founding-principal of Texas local gas distribution companies SiEnergy and CoServ Gas. Fifth largest in Texas, CoServ Gas ranks number 89 on Pipeline & Gas Journal's 28th annual 500 Leading Gas Distribution Utilities with 60,000 customers by year-end 2008. In 2008, Mr. Herweck established RobustEnergy, LLC to develop potential clean energy projects and champion CHP in Texas. [Email Rich]

 

Tommy John is a Consulting Engineer to the process, power, and energy industries. His 40-year career includes development, design and implementation of cogeneration, energy conservation, combustion (including byproduct fuels and wood), heat recovery, process and reliability improvement, environmental, and water treatment projects. He worked for Atlantic Richfield, Tenneco, Waste Management, and Texas Petrochemicals.  Mr. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech and a Masters of Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and is a Registered Professional Engineer. He was a founder and past President of the Gulf Coast Cogeneration Association, past President of the Gulf Coast Energy Conservation Society, and served as past Chairman of the South Texas Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has presented and published technical papers on process technology, combustion, cogeneration, and energy conservation. [Email Tommy]

 

Mr. Tietze is Vice President, Sales & Marketing, for Primenergy, LLC, a provider of gasification process technology, detailed engineering and project management, and midstream natural gas and oil production equipment. Mr. Tietze serves on the Board of the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association (TREIA) where he participates in the Biomass Fuels and Biomass Electricity-Agriculture Policy Subcommittees. Mr. Tietze worked for the Refractories Division of Babcock & Wilcox Company. He has worked in refractory-related sales, marketing and applications engineering roles in Texas and Louisiana, and has served the refining, coke calcining, steel, paper and cement industries. In 1997, Mr. Tietze joined the Heater Specialists, LLC, division of Energy Process Technology Inc. In 2005, he assumed sales and marketing responsibility for Primenergy, LLC. Primenergy intermittently operates a 30 ton/day pilot plant. Primenergy has two sister companies in Tulsa: Heater Specialists fabricates fired heater, reformer, ethylene furnace and fluid catalytic cracker components for the refining and petrochemical industries; Mohawk Field Service constructs, installs and repairs fired heater, reformer, ethylene furnaces for the refining and petrochemical industries. Both firms support Primenergy with fabrication and installation of gasification equipment. Mr. Tietze has a Bachelor's in Ceramic Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla. [Email Bill]

 

Mr. Nat Treadway is a founding partner of the Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC which has three business units: DEFG consulting, EcoAlign marketing and DEFG Ventures LLC. Mr. Treadway has long championed energy choices for consumers, including DG/CHP, energy efficiency (EE), demand response (DR), energy pricing alternatives, enhanced reliability and value-added products and services. As municipal energy manager for Odgen, Utah (1982-85), he dramatically reduced energy usage and secured funding to conduct a district heating & cooling study. From 1985 to 1995, he testified as an economist on utility EE/DR programs, integrated resource planning and competitive issues at the Public Utility Commission of Texas. As a policy advisor to the commissioners (1995-99), he spearheaded the adoption of DG interconnection guidelines and gave voice (through Deliberative Polls^(R)) to consumer preferences for EE and renewable energy.  He was behind the policy alternatives that resulted in a separation of competitive energy services from regulated wires functions. At DEFG, he examines market platforms that increase business opportunities for energy retailers and on-site solution providers. He works with several research consortia on business strategies for EE, DR and DG. He is the author of the Annual Baseline Assessment of Choice in Canada and the United States (ABACCUS), a report card on the success of states at implementing retail electricity choice, and he wrote a chapter on DG which appears in Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story (The AEI Press, 2009, L. Lynne Kiesling and Andrew N. Kleit, ed.). [Email Nat]

 

Ex Officio Directors

 

 

Mr. Tom Pierson [Email Tom]

 

Mr. Daniel Bullock is a Senior Scientist at Houston Advanced Research Center. Dan is a program manager in the clean and renewable energy group where he is responsible for directing the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Gulf Coast Clean Energy Regional Application Center. He is also Program Manager for the Center for Fuel Cell Research and Applications. Dan has over fifteen years experience in research, engineering, operations, and sales through experience with the IBM, AMD, and a number of technology start-up companies in the energy and microelectronics industries. He focuses on development and commercialization of emerging technologies, including combined heat and power, distributed generation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Dan graduated with distinction in solid state physics from Pennsylvania State University, and holds advanced degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in both engineering and public administration. [Email Dan]