Carol Battershell, deputy director for energy systems and integration at the U.S. Department of Energy, will present “The Department of Energy’s Quadrennial Energy Review on U.S. Infrastructure,” on Thursday, November 12, at 10:30 a.m., at West Virginia University. The lecture, part of the Glen H. Hiner Distinguished Lecture Series in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, will be held in room 113 of the Mineral Resources Building on the Evansdale campus.

The United States has one of the most advanced energy systems in the world, supplying the reliable, affordable and increasingly clean power and fuels that underpin every facet of the Nation’s economy and way of life. The energy transmission, storage and distribution infrastructure is large, complex and interdependent.

Issued at the request of President Barak Obama, the QER looks at ways to modernize our nation’s energy infrastructure to promote economic competitiveness, energy security and environmental responsibility. It also seeks to identify vulnerabilities in the system and proposes major policy recommendations and investments to replace, expand, and modernize infrastructure where appropriate.

Battershell joined the Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy after 25 years in the energy industry with Standard Oil and BP. In 2008 and 2009, she led the technical evaluation for the $25 billion Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program as well as the $2.3 billion Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit initiative.

In 2010, she took over management of EERE field operations, including direct leadership of the Golden, Colorado, office, which provides service for all of EERE. This office typically is responsible for about $1 billion of clean energy grants and research projects and during the Recovery Act managed $7 billion of grants, research and construction. In 2013 she joined the new DOE office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis, where she was a key contributor on the multi-Agency Quadrennial Energy Review.

Additional energy industry positions Battershell has held include operations and strategy roles in retail fuels marketing, strategy and financial roles in business-to-business fuels marketing, as well a corporate role in environmental policy and a development role as chief of staff to one of BP’s most senior executives. She began her career as a refinery engineer in Ohio.

Battershell has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Purdue University, where she specialized in environmental engineering, and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

Now in its 10th year, the Glen H. Hiner Distinguished Lecture Series is named in honor of the outstanding alumnus who, in 2005, established an endowment to support the deanship of the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at WVU.

Hiner graduated from WVU’s Department of Electrical Engineering in 1957, and then embarked on an outstanding 35-year career with General Electric. In 1992, he became chief executive officer of Owens Corning. He has served on several Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources’ advisory committees, as a visiting professor in the WVU College of Business and Economics and as a member of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors.

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CONTACT: Mary C. Dillon, Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
304.293.4086, Mary.Dillon@mail.wvu.edu

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