Primary Job Title Founder and President Primary Organization Empowered Energy
Location Durango, Colorado, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
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Lori Schell, Ph.D., ERP, is Founder and President of Empowered Energy. Lori Schell has 30 years of experience in the energy industry, including policy analysis work done at the U.S. Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Lori Schell is certified as an Energy Risk Professional (ERP) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals
(GARP). Lori Schell serves on the Board of Directors of Pagosa Verde LLC, a renewable energy and sustainable agriculture development company. Lori Schell is the 2015/2016 Vice-President of the International Association for Energy Economics (www.iaee.org) and is a Senior Fellow and Past President of the United States Association for Energy Economics (www.usaee.org).
Prior to founding Empowered Energy, Lori Schell was the Director of Energy Risk Management for Trigen Energy Corporation, a leading provider of district heating systems and energy-efficient combined heat and power solutions for large industrial firms, universities, governmental agencies, and municipalities. Lori Schell orchestrated the hedging of electricity sales and natural gas purchases for Trigen's major operating units, supported by in-depth commodity market analysis and commodity contract oversight. Aggregating Trigen's emissions allowances into a corporate portfolio, Lori Schell negotiated and set the peak market price for vintage 2003/2003 NOx emissions allowances. She also represented Trigen on the Board of Directors of the Independent Power Producers of New York, Inc. (IPPNY).
Lori Schell earlier served as the Manager of Regulatory Affairs & Market Analysis for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a Fortune 300 global producer of industrial gases and chemicals. While at Air Products, Lori Schell provided expert witness testimony in numerous natural gas pipeline proceedings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), on behalf of a coalition of up to nine industrial natural gas end-users. She filed testimony opposing the first major natural gas pipeline to file for market-based rates, on the basis of inadequate market analysis and lack of adherence to FERC policy guidelines.
Lori Schell received a Ph.D. in Mineral Economics and Operations Research from the Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Washington. After completing her Ph.D., She joined Benjamin Schlesinger and Associates, Inc., providing contractual, regulatory, and deliverability risk evaluation for a dozen project-financed natural gas-fired cogeneration projects.
