THE ASPEN ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP TEAM RECIEVED
24 OUTSDANDING PERFORMANCE AWARDS
FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION
FOR A THOROUGH REVIEW OF 41 PROPOSED NEW
POWER PLANTS
Twenty-four members of the Aspen Environmental Group team received awards for
Outstanding Performance and letters of commendation from the California Energy
Commission. The awards were presented at a luncheon on at the Sacramento
Convention Center in November 2002.
Aspen supported the California Energy Commission's staff in reviewing the increasing
numbers of applications for permanent and emergency power plants that were submitted
in response to the 2001 energy crisis. Aspen won the contract to provide Siting Peak
Workload assistance and assisted in the reviews of new Applications for Certification
for all 41 proposed power plant projects (12,816 Megawatts) in the State since the
crisis. Aspen has assisted the Energy Commission in carefully reviewing these
Applications to ensure that they comply with California State and Federal regulations
that protect public health and safety and the environment.
Aspen's was commended for outstanding efforts, such as assembling review team made
up of 15 scientists and planners over one weekend, staffing the review teams for
41 plant applications with highly experienced experts, tracking over 600 work
authorizations, and managing a team of over 50 subcontractors who expertly served
the Energy Commission.
Aspen employees receiving awards were: Program Manager Dr. Hamid Rastegar, Deputy
Program Manager Thomas Murphy, Negar Vahidi, Elise Camacho, Susan Lee, James Brewster
Birdsall, Christian Huntley, Christopher Meyer, and William Walters.
The Aspen Team subcontractors who received awards were: Dr. Patrick Pilling,
Jim Buntin, Dr. Noel Davis, Dr. Roger Mason, Steven Brown, John Kessler, Linda Bond,
Lynn Alexander, Michael Clayton, Jim Henneforth, Jim Bartridge, Mary Maniery, Dr. Alvin
Greenberg, William Kanemoto.
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