The Energy Communities Alliance said Monday it has hired Laura Hermann, founder of her own energy-related consulting firm, to the newly-recreated job of deputy executive director.
Hermann, who will be the No. 2 person to executive director Seth Kirshenberg, started with Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) last week, Kirshenberg said in a brief phone conversation with Exchange Monitor. “She has been coming to our meetings for over a year,” Kirshenberg said.
As founder and principal at Potentiary, Hermann works with clients involved in carbon reduction, such as the American Nuclear Society, Rock Lake Advisors and the Clean Air Task Force, ECA said in a press release. She has worked with international partnerships on fusion, fission and battery metals. Hermann has also consulted with the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Ukrainian Free University, ECA said.
“Laura’s knowledge of nuclear’s past and her insights into its future demonstrate an unwavering commitment that will further the ECA mission,” Brent Gerry, the mayor of West Richland, Wash., and chair of ECA said in the association press release.
ECA is an advocacy group for communities neighboring DOE nuclear-weapons sites.
