BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Stanford Energy Seminar: Karen Skelton | America’s Energy Tr ansition X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T193120Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_47509012034592 DTSTART:20241002T233000Z DTEND:20241003T002000Z DESCRIPTION:Abstract: We are at the beginning of one of the most significan t industrial transitions in history\, moving from an economy based almost exclusively on carbon-producing fossil energy–coal\, oil and gas–to on e eventually fueled by renewable energy–sun\, wind\, steam\, and innovat ive technologies that generate and enable power sources. The Biden-Harris Administration and Congress have accelerated this energy transition throug h passage of the Inflation Reduction Act\, the single greatest piece of cl imate legislation ever passed. IRA\, along with other federal investments in America\, have changed everything. In doing so\, the United States has gone from laggard to leader in driving an industrial economy based on clea n energy. Now\, as the energy train has left the station\, the 2024 presid ential election will play a critical role in this transition\, determining whether the train accelerates on pace or hits a switch turning its direct ion.\n\n \n\nBio: Karen Skelton has advised U.S. Presidents\, Vice Preside nts\, U.S. Cabinet Secretaries\, Governors\, First Ladies\, Fortune 100 co rporations\, philanthropies\, Boards of Directors for 35 years.\n\nSkelton is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in the Precourt Institute fo r Energy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Skelton will lec ture and write about America’s energy transition and the implications of the 2024 elections on the transition’s speed and scale. \n\nMost recent ly\, Skelton served as a Senior Policy Advisor to both Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and the President’s top Climate Diplomat\, John Podes ta. During this time\, Skelton played a key role in managing political\, p olicy\, and communication strategies to accelerate the nation’s industri al policy transition to a clean energy economy. Skelton collaborated with private sector stakeholders to gain access to hundreds of billions of doll ars in grants\, tax credits\, loans\, and other investments that address t he climate crisis\, rebuild American manufacturing\, and lower costs for c onsumers and businesses.\n\nSkelton’s work included co-leading the estab lishment of the Interagency Working Group on Coal & Power Plant Communitie s & Economic Revitalization (See www.Energycommunities.gov)\, now responsi ble for delivering over $170 billion in federal resources to help revitali ze America’s energy communities\; organizing private and public sector e ngagement in key states as Congress considered support for the Inflation R eduction Act\; managing a White House effort to build a coalition of phila nthropies which have contributed so far over $3 Billion in pooled funds an d aligned tables to implement the President’s climate package\, heading the inaugural launch of the DOE’s Foundation of Energy Security and Inno vation.\n\nKaren Skelton joined the Biden-Harris Administration from Calif ornia\, where she spent two decades running and selling two companies. Ske lton spent a decade as the founder of Skelton Strategies\, a policy and po litical consulting firm working on energy\, climate\, technology\, economi c justice\, and women’s health. Skelton served as Governor Jerry Brown's Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Global Climate Action Summit\, where she drove high-level corporate commitments designed to combat climat e change. With Maria Shriver\, Skelton founded and managed a series of gro undbreaking reports on the transformational role of women in American life \, including an Emmy-nominated documentary. Clients included Governor\n\nS chwarzenegger’s Women’s Conference\, HBO\, Bloom Energy\, Segway\, the National Basketball Association\, UCLA’s Baseball team\, T-Mobile\, Goo gle\, YouTube\, Amazon\, John Doerr and Mayor Willie Brown.\n\nPreviously\ , Skelton served in the Clinton-Gore Administration as Vice President Al G ore’s first Political Director and Deputy Political Director to the Pres ident\, in the U.S. Departments of Justice as a prosecutor\, and at the Un ited States Department of Transportation as Chief Counsel of the Federal H ighway Administration.\n\nSkelton earned her B.A. in English with Honors f rom UCLA\, a Master’s degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government\, and a J.D. from the UC Berkeley Law School.\n\nSkelton and he r husband\, a life-long public defender\, live in Sacramento and have two grown daughters and one lively Brittany spaniel.\n\n \n\n \n\nThe Stanford Energy Seminar has been a mainstay of energy engagement at Stanford for n early 20 years and is one of the flagship programs of the Precourt Institu te for Energy. We aim to bring a wide variety of perspectives to the Stanf ord community – academics\, entrepreneurs\, utilities\, non-profits\, an d more. \n\nAnyone with an interest in energy is welcome to join one semin ar or all of them! You can enjoy seminars in the following ways:\n\nAttend live. The auditorium may change quarter by quarter\, so check each semina r event to confirm the location. Explore the current quarter's schedule.Wa tch live in a browser livestream. Check each seminar event for its unique livestream URL.Watch recordings of past seminars Available on the Past Ene rgy Seminars page and the Energy Seminars playlist of the Stanford Energy YouTube channel(For students) Take the seminar as a 1-unit class (CEE 301/ ENERGY 301/MS&E 494)If you'd like to join the Energy Seminar mailing list to hear about upcoming talks\, sign up here and select the Energy Seminar checkbox. GEO:37.429138;-122.17552 LOCATION:Shriram Center\, Room 104 SUMMARY:Stanford Energy Seminar: Karen Skelton | America’s Energy Transit ion URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/the-stanford-energy-seminar _Oct_2 CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR