HVDC SUPERGRID
High Voltage Direct Current
Connect renewable energy sources to where it is needed most.
SUMMARY
The North American Underground Transmission SuperGrid, (noted hereafter as SuperGrid) is a proposed network of underground high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power lines spanning the U.S. This kind of grid would allow electricity to be transmitted efficiently across long distances, helping to connect renewable energy sources—like wind and solar farms—to areas where energy is needed most.
Experts in fields such as renewable energy and national security have reviewed the SuperGrid idea and see it as promising. The goal is to create a network that supports the transition to cleaner energy, boosts economic growth, and protects the environment.
The proposal for a North American Underground Transmission SuperGrid is essentially about building a nationwide underground electricity network. This network would carry electricity generated by renewable sources (like wind, solar, and hydro) across the country efficiently and reliably.
Projections indicate that ultimately a full zero carbon electric economy must supply and carry more than double as much electricity as the grid carries today, with all of it generated by renewables, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal. This will take transformative steps rather than the limited patches presently envisioned by the Department of Energy (DOE).
Why Do We Need It?
To achieve resilience, grow the economy and bolster national security we need to power everything with clean energy, including natural gas through a highly effecient transmission infrastructure. Additionally, the current U.S. electricity grid isn’t built to handle future demand.
What’s the SuperGrid?
The SuperGrid would be a new, high-capacity transmission system running mostly underground, following existing railroad and public routes. It would use high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cables to quickly and efficiently move electricity from where it’s produced to where it’s needed.
How Will It Help?
Cost Savings: Renewable energy, especially from sunny or windy areas, can be much cheaper than fossil fuels. The SuperGrid would make it easier to place wind and solar farms in ideal locations, reducing costs and emissions.
Energy Storage and Reliability: By linking renewable energy sources like wind and solar across a larger area, the SuperGrid could balance supply and demand better, cutting the need for costly, large-scale energy storage.
Job Creation and Economic Growth: Building and operating the SuperGrid would create jobs, support economic development, and provide affordable clean energy across the country, especially in rural areas.
Improved Security and Resilience: Placing HVDC cables underground would protect the network from extreme weather, cyber-attacks, and reduce the risk of wildfire ignitions from overhead lines.
Why Now?
Current grid limitations are holding back renewable energy projects. If the U.S. doesn’t improve its transmission network, the nation would struggle to meet growing energy demands. Major leaders are emphasizing the urgency of expanding grid capacity.
What Needs to Happen?
Ongoing high-level government support is essential. A public-private partnership led by the federal government could coordinate investment, set policies, and create incentives to bring together the right stakeholders. The SuperGrid would be faster to build and less complicated legally because it would use existing rights-of-way along railroads, avoiding long, drawn-out battles for new land.
The SuperGrid would also strengthen the U.S. economy by lowering energy costs and making American businesses more competitive internationally. This step toward a more sustainable, secure energy system would ensure the country’s leadership in renewable energy, aligning with similar moves in countries like Canada, which is also planning a national clean energy grid.
Utility-Scale Photovoltaic and Onshore Wind Technical Potential
The SuperGrid-Wind-Solar-Gas System 2050
Alexander E. MacDonald, PhD
AREDAY IMPACT 2023: HVDC Panel
The SuperGrid Working Group
Charles Bayless
Bayless, Charles is a retired Utility Executive and University President. Until June 30, 2008, Mr. Bayless was President and Provost of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology, a West Virginia University divisional campus.
Before Dec 27, 1999, Mr. Bayless was Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Illinois Power Company. Before joining Illinova Corporation in June 1998, Mr. Bayless was Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Tucson Electric Power Company. From 1981 to 1989, Mr. Bayless was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Public Service Company of New Hampshire, guiding the company through the first bankruptcy of a large utility. Before that, he was employed by Consumers Power Company in Jackson, Michigan, first as an attorney, then as the Director of Nuclear Fuel Supply, and finally as the Director of Special orporate Projects. In College, Mr. Bayless had summer jobs in line construction and at power plants at Kentucky Power and Pennsylvania Power and Light.
Mr. Bayless received his BSEE from the West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1968. In 1971, he earned his MSEE in power engineering and, in 1972, his Law Degree, both from West Virginia University. He earned his MBA in 1977 from the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.
Mr. Bayless is a board member of West Virginia American Water, the Climate Institute, and TS Conductors and the Advisory Boards of E Source, Pi Energy, Energy Impact Partners, and the Angeleno Group. He is currently a judge for Platt’s Global Energy Awards and a frequent speaker on the future of energy.
Willam S. Becker
Becker, William (Bill) He is the Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP), a bipartisan initiative founded in 2007 that works with national thought leaders to develop recommendations for the White House and Congress on climate and energy policies. Prior to PCAP, he served as a senior official in the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
With a background in journalism, Mr Becker has written for the Associated Press and has authored several books, including “The 100-Day Action Plan to Save the Planet” and “The Creeks Will Rise: People Co-Existing with Floods.” He is a coeditor and contributor to “Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People” and contributor to its sequel, Democracy in a Hotter Time, named by the journal Nature as one of 2023’s five best science books. Mr. Becker is a regular columnist in The Hill and the international magazine Meer.
Mr. Becker is listed in Who’s Who in America, which honors “individuals who possess professional integrity, demonstrate outstanding achievement in their respective fields, and have made innumerable contributions to society as a whole.”
Becky Benedict
Benedict, Becky: Ms. Benedict is dedicated to supporting andfacilitating the Climate Crisis solution advocated by the SuperGridWorking Group. She’s retired after 30 years providing Program Management and Project manager/Systems Engineer leadership, collaboration, and support in multiple disciplines & industries, including Aerospace, Science, Defense, Nano Satellite Systems, Cryogenics, Energy, Gas Processing, Cable Industry communications infrastructure innovations & technologies, electronics, hardware & software systems.
For over 18 years at Ball Aerospace Systems Division she provided Program management & Systems Engineer support on projects ranging from the Great Science Telescopes (AXAF/Chandra (ACA, SIM), SIRTIF) to DOD: Defense AC130 gunship turret, Russian American Missile Observatory System (RAMOS), XRS, Nanosat development & Cryogenic systems (Fluid Tank Set (FTS), cryocoolers). At Chevron USA in the early 1980’s she was a gas processing engineer.
Ms. Benedict was a CableLabs Innovation project manager, concurrently managing 6 to 10 technology development start-up projects in their early phases of ideation. One highlight project she managed was a state-of-the art Coherent Optics communication transmission lab specifications/procurement-acquisition/set up & demonstrations to leading US communications CEOs and CTOs. This provided unique lab testing capability for CO and the US previously only available on the East and West coasts.
Ms Benedict founded WWW Enterprises—Consulting in PM/SE technology development across a multi-industry multi-discipline technology area.
Ms Benedict has an MSSM (Master of Science in Systems Management) from Denver University and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Sally Benson
Benson, Sally has served as the deputy director for energy and chief strategist for the energy transition at OSTP since 2001. Sally M. Benson, who joined Stanford University in 2007, is a professor in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; she studies technologies and pathways to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including geologic storage of CO2 in deep underground formations and energy systems analysis for a low-carbon future. She is the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage and the Stanford Carbon Removal Initiative Co-Director.
Professor Benson served as the Director and Co-Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy from 2013 to 2020. She also served as the Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project from 2009 to 2019. Prior to joining Stanford, Professor Benson was Division Director for Earth Sciences, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, and Deputy Director at LBNL.
Professor Benson currently serves on the Board of Directors for Climate Central and, from 2008 to 2020, on the Board of Directors of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Currently, she also serves on the Advisory Boards for Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Argonne National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton’s Adlinger Center, Japan’s Initiative for the Cool Earth Forum, Climate Vault, and the Lahore University of Management Science in Pakistan.
Over the past several years, she has participated in several National Academy of Sciences, Secretary of Energy, and National Petroleum Council research needs assessments related to carbon management. She is also on the Editorial Board for Energy and Environmental Sciences.
John “Spike” Buckley
Buckley, Spike is the Principal of Grimley Capital, and has four decades of experience as an early-stage investor and commercial real estate owner and developer of multifamily, retail, and office properties, with current and past projects across the U.S. and Canada. In conjunction with his real estate activities, he is committed to mobilizing supporters and activating investors to tackle the climate crisis.
Mr. Buckley founded Earth’s Call Fund in May 2019 and, in the same year, was honored with the Earth Legacy Leadership Award from the American Renewable Energy Day Summit (AREDay). In 2021, he co-founded One Earth Philanthropy and served as a member of its Board of Directors until 2023.
Mr. Buckley is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Warming Mitigation Project, the Climate Democracy Initiative, PharmaJet, Inc. and Cryptomill Technologies. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Grace Gorilla Rehabilitation and Education Center. He is an avid supporter and funder of Conservation Colorado, the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, NextGen America, and the Denver Dumb Friends League, among others.
Mr. Buckley is a graduate of The Episcopal Academy, a member of its Board of Trustees, and a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a bachelor’s degree in economics.
General Wes Clark
Clark, Wes is a businessman, educator, writer, and commentator who is the Chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a strategic consulting firm. He is the Chairman and Founder of Enverra, Inc., a licensed investment bank, and Chairman of Energy Security Partners, LLC, as well as numerous corporate boards, including BNK Petroleum and Leagold Mining. General Clark is active in energy, including oil and gas, biofuels, electric power and batteries, finance, and security.
During his business career, General Clark has served as an advisor, consultant, or board member of over ninety private and publicly traded companies. In the not-forprofit space, he is a Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations, Director of the Atlantic Council, and Founding Chair of City Year Little Rock/North Little Rock.
A best-selling author, General Clark has written four books and is a frequent contributor to TV and newspapers.
General Clark retired as a four star general after 38 years in the United States Army, having served in his last assignments as Commander of US Southern Command and then as Commander of US European Command/ Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.
While serving in Vietnam, he commanded an infantry company in combat, where he was severely wounded and evacuated home on a stretcher. He later commanded at the battalion, brigade and division level, and served in a number of significant staff positions, including service as the Director, Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5). He was the principal author of both the US National Military Strategy and Joint Vision 2010, prescribing US warfighting for full-spectrum dominance.
He also worked with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke in the Dayton Peace Process, where he helped write and negotiate significant portions of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement. In his final assignment as Supreme Allied Commander Europe he led NATO forces to victory in Operation Allied Force, a 78-day air campaign, backed by ground invasion planning and a diplomatic process, saving 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing.
General Clark’s awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Defense Distinguished Service Medal (five awards), Silver star, bronze star, purple heart, honorary knighthoods from the British and Dutch governments, and numerous other awards from other governments, including award of Commander of the Legion of Honor (France). He has also been awarded the Department of State Distinguished Service Award and numerous honorary doctorates and civilian honors.
General Clark graduated first in his class at West Point and completed degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University (B.A. and M.A.) as a Rhodes scholar.
Chip Comins
Comins, Chip is a renewable energy and clean technology expert and serves as Founder, Chairman and CEO of the American Renewable Energy Institute (AREI) and is the Founder of AREDAY. He is President and CEO of American Spirit Productions and Managing Director of WEnergy. Mr. Comins focuses on and connects climate solutions in a Climate Constellation of implementation, acceleration, and replication locally, nationally, and globally. In 2009, he produced 13 official side events at the UNFCCC COP 15 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and presented at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico, in 2011; COP21 in Paris, France, in 2015 & COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2016. Mr. Comins has produced and directed both long and short-form documentary films for educational and broadcast television markets, including PBS, Link TV, BET and Discovery Network, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and DOE Wind Powering America.
A long-time advocate of developing and implementing renewable energy resources to abate greenhouse gases and climate change, Mr. Comins encourages a business approach to solving both the economic and environmental crisis. Mr. Comins completed the 16th Annual AREDAY 2019 Summit in Aspen/Snowmass, CO, featuring over 175 globally renowned thought leaders in clean energy and sustainable solutions. In 2020, he hosted the AREDAY “Democracy and the Vote” virtual series and continues to advocate for rapid climate solutions.
Robert (Bob) Corell
Corell, Robert is a Director and Principal at the Global Environment & Technology Foundation, leading international programs and research focused on the sciences of climate and global change that facilitate science-to-policy strategies addressing nature, people’s well-being, and a sustainable planetary environmental envelope. He is focused on programs and activities that explicitly address disruptive human-induced changes leading to transformations across the public and private spheres of society. His research is on foundational science, engineering, and technology adaptation strategies that seek to mitigate the causalities of scientific and geopolitical dynamics across the United States and interactions throughout both hemispheres. Dr. Corell is dedicated to framing these programs to accelerate positive social outcomes, expand knowledge for all, facilitate technological innovation, and foster institutional cultures dedicated to society’s benefit.
Dr. Corell holds graduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University and MIT. He was the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation for Geosciences, responsible for the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and Polar Programs (1986 – 2000). He led the U.S. climate and global change research program, international programs for the UN, global and regional research science, and related public policy assessments. He is the Chair of the SuperGrid Working Group.
Gary Dirks
Dirks, Gary is the senior director of the Global Futures Laboratory and Director of LightWorks®, an Arizona State University (ASU) initiative focusing on solar energy and light-inspired research. From 2013 to 2019, Dr. Dirks directed ASU’s Wrigley Institute and holds the Julie Wrigley Chair of Sustainable Practices, serves as a professor of practice in the School of Sustainability, and is a distinguished sustainability scientist. Before joining ASU, Dr Dirks was the president of BP Asia-Pacific and BP China, where he expanded BP’s operations from fewer than 30 employees to over 1,300, with revenues reaching about $4 billion in 2008.
Dr. Dirks has received numerous honors, including China’s “Friendship Award” in 2003, an honorary Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George from the UK in 2005, recognition as one of the most influential multinational company leaders in China by the People’s Daily in 2008, and the CLAS Leaders Award from ASU in 1999 for his leadership skills.
Dr. Dirks earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from ASU in 1980 and was the first doctoral student at the Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, now the Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis.
Mike MacCracken
MacCracken, Michael: Retired in 2002 after 34 years with the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Dr. MacCracken volunteers as Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs with the Climate Institute (a non-partisan organization catalyzing solutions for adaptation, mitigation, and climate stabilization [climate.org]), and serves on the steering committee of the Healthy Planet Action Coalition.
Dr. MacCracken’s 25-year research activities at LLNL used numerical models to evaluate an array of factors that could affect the climate. During this period, he also served as an advisor to DOE’s climate research program and as US co-chair (1984-90) of the US/USSR WG VIII on climate change.
From 1993-2002, he was on assignment from LLNL as senior global change scientist with the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), was the office’s first executive director (1993-1997) and served as executive director of USGCRP’s National Assessment Coordination Office (NACO) (1997-2002). NACO coordinated the activities of regional and sectoral teams and collaborated with the federal advisory committee in preparing the nation’s first climate change impacts assessment. Dr. MacCracken also contributed to the preparation of IPCC assessments and official reviews of their science and impact volumes.
Dr. MacCracken was a member of the first Arctic Climate Impact Assessment team (2002-04), president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS 2003-2007), on the executive committee of the Scientific Committee for Oceanic Research (SCOR 2003-2011), and prepared multiple legal declarations seeking to limit climate change, one of which was favorably cited in 2007 in the Supreme Court majority opinion, Massachusetts v. EPA.
Dr. MacCracken also serves as treasurer/environmental scientist for Oceana Energy Company, a private entity with a unique turbine design for extracting energy from rivers, tides, and ocean currents.
Dr. MacCracken has a B.S. in Engineering (Princeton University 1964) and Ph.D. in Applied Science (University of California Davis/Livermore 1968).
Alexander (Sandy) MacDonald
MacDonald, Alexander: an author and speaker who has devoted the last 20 years of his career to finding worldwide solutions to the climate crisis. He retired after 42 years in the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA).
He is the founding Director of the Global System Laboratory of the NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in Boulder, Colorado. From 2005 to 2016 he was the Director of ESRL, a world leader in weather and climate research. In the 1980s and 1990s he led a team of NOAA scientists and engineers to develop two operational prototypes for NOAA’s National Weather Service: a system that combined advanced weather information for NWS offices (still a mainstay of NWS offices) and a system that allowed thousands of computers to work together on weather model predictions. The first in the world, it is now a central system of all global weather prediction centers.
Working with Vice President Gore in 1994, he initiated a program called GLOBE, collecting environmental observations from school children worldwide. The program still operates with over 200,000 students in 127 nations. He also invented an educational display called Science On a Sphere, currently in over 200 museums worldwide and seen by over 50 million people/year. By the late 2020s, it will have educated over a billion people about planet Earth.
He led a research project at NOAA to determine the infrastructure for wind and solar energy systems to replace nearly 100% of fossil fuels globally. It led to a celebrated journal article rated in the 99th percentile of all NATURE magazine publications in 2016.
He has recently completed a book that presents the urgency of worldwide cessation of carbon dioxide emissions using advanced electricity grid transmission: an HVDC US SuperGrid-Wind-Solar-Gas Energy System (decarbonized gas). The goal is to bring human emissions to net-zero by 2050.
Dr. MacDonald’s PhD is from the University of Utah.
Mike Nelson
Nelson, Mike received his degree in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He began his weather career in 1976 at Weather Central, a Madison based weather consulting firm, specializing in forecasts for TV, radio, agribusiness, ski areas and utilities.
In 1979, Mr. Nelson partnered with fellow meteorologist, Terry Kelly, in developing a computer weather graphics system for television. This pioneering system eventually became the most widely used television weather graphics system. Weather Central, now an IBM company, continues to be widely used around the world. (He actually taught a young Al Roker how to use his first TV weather computer system at WKYC-TV in Cleveland in 1981.)
Mr. Nelson became the Chief Meteorologist for KMOV-TV in St. Louis, MO from 1985 until 1991.
In 1991, he moved to Denver where he currently serves as Chief Meteorologist for Denver 7 KMOV-TV. He will retire from his TV duties in December 2024.
Mr. Nelson has authored three books on weather and climate, The Colorado Weather Almanac (2007) and The Colorado Weather Book (1999). He recently co-authored the recently published World’s Littlest Book on Climate. He now spends considerable time writing and teaching about the science and the dangers of Global Warming.
He has won 20 Emmy awards for Weather Excellence. He is also a recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award and a two-time winner of the Colorado Broadcaster of the Year award.
In 2001, Mr. Nelson was recognized by the Colorado Broadcasters Association as their “Citizen of the Year” for his volunteer work in Colorado schools.
In 2015, he was named Chair of the Station Scientist Committee of the American Meteorological Society. The committee consists of a dozen broadcast meteorologists from around the nation. The goal of the committee is to inform and inspire fellow weather broadcasters to include climate change information in their weather reports.
In 2016, he was inducted into the Silver Circle of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences – recognizing his many years of service to the broadcast industry and 25 years of work in Denver television.
In 2018, he was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). This honor was bestowed on him for his work in climate change education. Less than 1% of AMS members are so honored. He is the only television meteorologist in Colorado to be named an AMS Fellow and one of just 3 dozen weather-casters nationwide.
In 2023, Mr. Nelson was inducted into the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame – the first Colorado broadcast meteorologist ever so honored.
He enjoys sharing his knowledge of the weather with young and old, visiting nearly 100 schools, clubs, charities and service organizations each year (pre-Covid). He continued his public outreach virtually during the Pandemic. He estimates that he has spoken to nearly 1,000,000 children in his 48-year career.
Andrew L. Quiat
Quiat, Andrew first acted on environmental matters while a Ford Foundation Environmental Intern in a multi-year internship while a law student. He has had a full career in private practice, business, and on non-profit boards since he was 25 years old, with experience in executive positions, board governance, for-profit public, private, and non-profit\ organizations, as well as engaging in the private practice of law. His law practice is substantially limited to realization upon large money judgments, pursuing people who send robocalls, setting aside fraudulent conveyances, and in civil racketeering cases. He has been actively involved through outreach efforts of the Aspen Community United Methodist Church, of which his wife, an Iliff alum, was the Pastor, with the provision of sustainable water to rural Kenyans.
He is a Trustee of the American Renewable Energy Institute, of Aspen, Colorado (www.areday.net) and has served as its Secretary for a number of years, and continues to do so. He has been instrumental in formation of the Iliff School of Theology’s Eco- Justice Center, while serving as one of its Trustees when it doubled its endowment, solved massive deferred maintenance issues, and dealt with deeply buried institutional racism.
He has been a Director of a public company involving technological approaches to document and product security (Optical Security Group).
He was Chairman and General Counsel of Beth Israel Hospital and Geriatric Center, effecting both a corporate re-structuring and a multi-million dollar turn-round in economic performance without firing anyone.
He spent seven years on the Colorado Health Facilities Finance Authority, during which time the authority financed in excess of $1.6 billion of double-tax-exempt bonds to finance non-profit health facilities in Colorado. Through that affiliation he served on the Operations Committee of the National Council of Health Facilities Finance Authorities and chaired its Capital Finance Policy Committee.
He has served on the Colorado Supreme Court’s County Court Rules sub-committee where all changes to post-judgment Rules originate. He serves on the Board of the Colorado Creditors Bar Association.
He chaired the Young Lawyers Section of the Colorado Bar Association, served on the Board of Trustees of the Denver Bar Association, the Board of Governors of the Colorado Bar Association, and on the Executive Council of the Young Lawyers Section of the American Bar Association at a time when that section first came to represent over 1/2 of the Association’s membership.
He is an experienced litigator in both federal and state courts and has transactional experience including mergers and acquisitions.
Deborah Stirling
Stirling, Deborah is with the Burroughs and Chapin Center forMarine and Wetland Studies at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina. Among her activities, she helps coordinate the Southeast Atlantic Econet program (SEA Econet), which is the National Weather Service’s presence in the Southeast for the National Mesonet Program. Ms. Stirling was a founder and CFO of Infinite Habitat @ Innovista, an engineering design and sustainability company that offered consulting, particularly in renewable energy and other aspects of the built environment. Ms. Stirling is a retired SC attorney specializing in science, engineering, technology, environment, and climate research. In addition, she was a legislative advisor to the National Academy of Sciences. Ms. Stirling spent ten years as Subcommittee Counsel for Oceans and Atmosphere for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and then was Legal Counsel for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO.
Ms Stirling is past chair and serves on the National Sea Grant Advisory Board (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce), works with various scientific groups around the country on climate-related projects and serves as a Commissioner on the South Carolina Floodwater Commission. Ms. Stirling has a J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Daniel Vermeer
Vermeer, Dan is an Associate Professor of Practice at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, where he leads the Center for Energy, Development, and the Global Environment (EDGE). EDGE works at the intersection of global environmental and societal challenges and business strategy through education, research, and collaboration. Dr. Vermeer’s latest work is on climate strategy and ocean innovation.
At Duke, Dr. Vermeer co-leads a national initiative called ClimateCAP, which is focused on integrating climate change into the business school curriculum. He is also co-founder of the Oceans@Duke initiative, which brings together diverse experts to develop innovative solutions to the world’s ocean sustainability challenges. Dr. Vermeer joined Duke from The Coca-Cola Company, where he led the company’s Global Water Initiative.
Dr. Vermeer plays a leading public role in advocating for sustainable development through speaking, research, and institution-building.
Dr. Vermeer has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Hope College, a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University.
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