ANNEX A: Organisations visited

Review criteria

The Shared Goals, which were adopted by the IEA Ministers at their 4 June 1993 meeting in Paris, provide the evaluation criteria for the in-depth reviews (IDRs) conducted by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The Shared Goals are presented in Annex C.

Review team and preparation of the report

The IEA’s joint in-depth review and emergency response review team visited the United States from 24 September-1 October 2018. The team met with government officials, energy companies, interest groups, research institutions, and other organisations and stakeholders. This report was drafted on the basis of the review team’s preliminary assessment of the country’s energy policy and information on subsequent policy developments from the government and private-sector sources. The members of the team were:

IEA member countries:

Mr. Rob Heferen, Australia (team leader)

Mr. Gumersindo Cue Aguilar, Mexico

Mr. Brad Little, Canada

Mr. Torgeir Knutsen, Norway

Mr. Sergio López Pérez, Spain

European Union:

Mr. Ruben Kubiak

OECD Nuclear Energy Agency:

Mr. Henri Paillere

IEA Secretariat:

Mr. Aad van Bohemen

Ms. Sylvia Beyer

Ms. Lucie Girard

The team is grateful for the co-operation and assistance of the many people it met throughout the visit in Washington. Thanks to their kind hospitality, openness and willingness to share information, the visit was highly informative, productive and enjoyable. The team expresses particular gratitude to the Department of Energy for organising the visit, especially Glen Sweetnam and Gina Erickson. The team is also sincerely grateful to Dan Brouillette, Deputy Secretary of Energy, Theodore Garrish, Assistant Secretary for the Office of International Affairs, and Andrea Lockwood, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa, Middle East, Europe & Eurasia, for all their support throughout the review process.

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Sylvia Beyer managed the review visit, while Divya Reddy drafted the report, with the exception of the oil, gas and resilience chapters, which were drafted by Lucie Girard and Jihyun Selena Lee. Henri Paillere from the Nuclear Energy Agency drafted the nuclear chapter.

The report was prepared under the guidance of Aad van Bohemen, Head of Energy Policy and Security Division. Helpful comments and updates were provided by the review team members and IEA staff, including Carlos Fernandez Alvarez, Heymi Bahar, Toril Bosoni, Jean-Baptiste Dubreuil, Peter Fraser, Simone Landolina, Pharoah Le Feuvre, Olivier Lejeune, Luca Lo Re, Diana Louis, Samantha McCulloch, Gergely Molnar, Kristine Petrosyan, Andrew Prag, Joe Ritchie, Sacha Scheffer and Matthew Wittenstein.

Oskar Kvarnström and Lilly Lee prepared the figures. Roberta Quadrelli and Faidon Papadimoulis provided support on statistics. Therese Walsh managed the editing process, Astrid Dumond, Isabelle Nonain-Semelin and Clara Vallois managed the production process. Jad Mouawad supported the press launch.

Organisation visited

During its visit in Washington, the review team met with the following organisations:

American Coal Council

American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy

American Petroleum Institute

BP America Inc.

Business Council for Sustainable Energy

Chevron Corporation

ClearPath

District of Columbia Public Service Commission

Duke University, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Edison Electric Institute

Electric Power Research Institute

Energy Information Administration

Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc.

Environmental Protection Agency

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association

Geothermal Resources Council

Grid Strategies, LLC

Institute for Energy Research

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners National Association of State Energy Officials

National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates National Hydropower Association

National Energy Technology Laboratory North American Electric Reliability Corporation Nuclear Energy Institute

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy PJM

United States Council for Automotive Research, LLC U.S. Chamber of Commerce

U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Department of State Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP

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