Perkins Coie Lunch Series: 2023-2024

The CleanTech Alliance Lunch Series presents notable clean tech executive speakers for a monthly conversation followed by networking with cleantech industry leaders from across the region. A different speaker and topic is presented on the second Wednesday of each month (12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.) from September 2022 through October 2023 (except November and December).


April 10 – Plugging Offshore Wind into the Electric Grid

12:00 – 1:30 PM PT
Perkins Coie Seattle Office
1201 3rd Ave #4900, Seattle, WA 98101

What’s the future of offshore wind on the West Coast? What opportunities could the technology offer utilities looking to diversify their energy portfolios? Further, what challenges might it pose to ocean co-use, and what land-based infrastructure upgrades would be necessary to prepare for potential power flows from the ocean to the coast? Mark your calendars to join us for this exploratory lunch conversation and networking event.

On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, from 12 PM – 1:30 PM PST, join us in this dynamic lunch conversation at the Perkins Coie office downtown Seattle with ample time to network!

Featured Speakers:

Mark Severy, P.E., Research Engineer, Wind-Wildlife Portfolio Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

Mark Severy is a research engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and serves as a transmission advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office. Mark is a licensed mechanical engineer and excels in interdisciplinary projects combining energy, environment, technology, and policy. His work at PNNL focuses on addressing some of the challenges of offshore wind energy development in the United States, including evaluating transmission system capacity, mitigating environmental effects, and characterizing wind and ocean conditions.

Rob Hammond, Researcher III – Software Engineering, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Rob is a Research Software Engineer and the Software Lead for the Wind Plant Technology Characterization Task. Rob designs, builds, and maintains software across a wide variety of wind energy research areas, including wake modeling, operational analysis, and technoeconomic analysis. Rob’s focus is on the adoption of software best practices and a documentation driven software development paradigm with the aim to make research software more accessible to researchers and software engineers alike.

Siobhan Doherty, Director of Power Management, Seattle City Light

Siobhan Doherty joined Seattle City Light as the Director of the Power Management Division in September 2022. The Power Management Division is responsible for power marketing, participation in the CAISO Western Energy Imbalance Market, resource planning and acquisition, and managing the utility’s portfolio of wholesale power contracts. 

Siobhan is a very experienced energy professional and leader with over 15 years’ experience in the industry. Prior to Seattle City Light she spent 5+ years leading power procurement and planning as Director of Power Resources at Peninsula Clean Energy, a community choice energy agency in California.

In her time at Peninsula, Siobhan helped build a team responsible for responsible for a 3,600 GWh / $200MM+ annual energy supply portfolio, including strategy, analysis, procurement, resource planning, and regulatory compliance. She provided vision and leadership for Integrated Resource Planning and negotiated Purchase Power Agreements (PPAs) over 700MW of renewable energy projects. She was responsible for representing the organization in joint procurement efforts with other community choice energy agencies, including in the first ever solicitation for long duration energy storage.

Before joining Peninsula Clean Energy, Siobhan had a served as Finance Director at EverCar, an electric mobility platform provider. Prior to that, she spent 5 years at SunEdison, a developer, operator and owner of solar power plants, in multiple leadership roles related to project finance, development, contracting, and innovation.

Siobhan is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton MA, with a BA in Government and Environmental Science. She also holds an MBA and an MS from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.


Save-the-Dates for 2024 Lunch Series:

  • September 11Thermal – District Energy.
  • October 9 – Fusion Financing.

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Past Lunch Series Speakers:

2024 Lunch Speakers

  • March 2024 – Net-Zero Materials: Timber
  • February 2024 – Workforce Development: Creating Successful CleanTech Internship Programs
  • January 2024 – From the Lab to the Skies: Sustainable Aviation Fuels

2023 Lunch Speakers

  • October 2023 – A Discussion on the Fusion Energy Policy and Regulation Landscape
  • September 2023 – District Energy, Deep Lake Water Cooling, and Salmon Habitat Restoration in the Lake Washington Ship Canal
  • April 2023 – C-Suite Roundtable on Developing a Skilled, Inclusive Workforce
  • March 2023 – Wastewater Heat Recovery
  • February 2023 – Future-Proofing Buildings: Sustainable, Efficient Design for Energy Retrofits
  • January 2023 – The BUILT Cluster: Working Together for Infrastructure Decarbonization

2022 Lunch Speakers

  • October 2022 – The Future of Fusion Regulations and the Need for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • September 2022 – The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on the Clean Energy Industry
  • May 2022 – Innovative Approaches to Organic Waste Management (Hybrid)
  • April 2022 – Ocean Energy, Marine Fuels & the Blue Economy
  • March 2022 – Trends in the CleanTech Funding Landscape
  • February 2022– Salmon Conservation
  • January 2022 – Hydrogen Technologies

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