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| James Wood, DAS for Clean Coal | |
James F. Wood is currently Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal in the Office of Fossil Energy (FE). In this position, he is responsible for the management and direction of the Office's clean coal research and development programs. Chief among these is the Carbon Sequestration program, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FE's $3.4 billion portfolio of Recovery Act projects.
Wood has over 30 years of experience in the power industry. Most recently, he was president and CEO of Babcock Power Inc. (BPI), one of the major US-based designer/manufacturers of environmental, pressure part, heat exchanger, combustion equipment and after-market services for the power generation industry.
From 1996 to 2001, Wood was president of Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), a $1.5 billion integrated world-wide provider of boiler-systems and after-market services to the power industry. He was also executive vice president of McDermott International Inc., the parent of B&W.
From 1988 to 1996, Wood was president of WTI International Inc. (WTII) and managing director of Wheelabrator Environmental Systems (WESI). WTII was the international development arm of WESI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. (WTI). WESI is an independent power plant owner-operator with approximately 900 MW of capacity fueled by natural gas, waste-coal, biomass, and municipal solid waste. In 1995, Waste Management Inc. acquired 100% of WTI.
Wood has resided abroad for significant periods of time in Italy, India, Belgium, Colombia, and Ecuador and was responsible for B&W’s foreign subsidiaries and ventures in China, Turkey, Egypt and Indonesia. He was appointed to the National Coal Council by three Administrations, and was a member of the US-Egypt President's Council, a federal advisory body to Vice President Al Gore.
Wood is an ASME Fellow and Trustee of Clarkson University. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson and an MBA with a focus on international economics from Kent State University.
