Member Webinar: Rep. Sean Casten
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
Join WIRES for a discussion with Representative Sean Casten about renewable energy, transmission development for the future, and the role of Congress alongside regulatory bodies like FERC in helping to advance and modernize the United States’ energy infrastructure.
Speaker
Sean Casten is a scientist, clean energy entrepreneur and CEO, and now a Member of Congress representing the western suburbs of Chicago. Congressman Casten has dedicated his life to fighting climate change, and he draws upon his previous private sector experience in Congress to craft market-based solutions to reduce emissions while creating jobs and spurring economic growth. Casten serves on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and is the Vice Chair of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets. He also serves as Co-Chair on the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force.
Rep. Casten has a Master of Engineering Management and a Master of Science in Biochemical Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, he did fundamental research in thermophilic fermentation technology to produce cellulosic ethanol and engineering analyses of integrated ethanol, heat and power plants.
Casten worked as a clean energy consultant and manager at Arthur D. Little, then served as the president and CEO of Turbosteam Corporation, which focused on utilizing energy recycling technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by generating heat and power from previously wasted energy. In 2006, Casten co-founded Recycled Energy Development (RED), which focused on recycling wasted energy and converting energy facilities to cleaner, more economic uses. Casten was a founding chairman of the Northeast CHP Initiative, a nonprofit advocacy organization with a mission to advance policies that favor energy efficiency in the Northeast United States.
You can follow Rep. Casten on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @RepSeanCasten.
This event is free of charge and open to WIRES member companies and their employees only.