Geoffrey Styles

Place of work: United States of America
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Blog: Energy Outlook

Resume

Geoffrey Styles is Managing Director of GSW Strategy Group, LLC, an energy and environmental strategy consulting firm. Since 2002 he has served as a consultant and advisor, helping organizations and executives address systems-level policy. His 28 years of industry experience include 22 years at Texaco Inc., which culminated in a senior position on Texaco’s leadership team for strategy development. That role encompassed the global oil refining, marketing, transportation and alternative energy businesses, along with global issues such as climate change and sustainable development. Previously he held senior positions in alliance management, planning, supply & distribution, and risk management. He also served on NASA’s Senior Management Oversight Committee for Space Solar Power. He holds an M.B.A from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from U.C. Davis. His weblog on the energy industry has been quoted frequently by the Wall Street Journal’s energy blog and was named one of the "Top 50 Eco Blogs" by the Times of London. He can be contacted at gswstrat@cox.net.

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Climategate: Mountain or Molehill? 21 Dec, 2009 08:50 am While the Copenhagen delegates, which now include many heads of state, wrangle about transparency and the size and funding of the pot of money that will...

Cash Is King, Even at Copenhagen 15 Dec, 2009 04:39 pm Although apparently brief, the suspension of the Copenhagen climate conference after a walkout by the Group of 77 developing countries confirms that the...

Do Leaked Emails Undermine the Scientific Consensus? 1 Dec, 2009 10:34 am It's clearly premature to attempt to draw sweeping conclusions about the implications for climate science and policy from the few tidbits that have leaked...

Counting All the Carbon 7 Nov, 2009 04:00 pm Last Thursday, an editorial in the Wall St. Journal referred to a paper in the latest issue of Science entitled, "Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting...

Regulating EV recharging 20 Oct, 2009 05:00 pm A feature on the New York Times website tipped me off to a debate that's brewing in California concerning whether and how the state's Public Utilities...

The Necessity of "All of the Above" 15 Oct, 2009 12:58 pm I've devoted a lot of space in my blog to explaining why we need all of the energy choices currently available to us, including energy efficiency, in order...

Fuel Cell Trains 15 Sep, 2009 02:23 pm NPR's excellent Science Friday series is one of my favorite sources. I just caught up with a recent segment on the development of hydrogen-powered trains,...

Can Solar Compete? 3 Sep, 2009 05:32 pm In this month's briefing on low-carbon electricity technologies, MIT's Technology Review concluded[1] that while the cost of solar power has declined significantly,...

The Climate-Industrial Complex 24 Aug, 2009 08:54 am According to the Center for Public Integrity the number of companies and groups now lobbying the US Congress on the subject of climate change has passed...

The Influence of "Peak Oil" 15 Aug, 2009 01:49 pm An article in the Washington Post this weekend, together with a must-read interview in The Independent, a paper I used to read regularly when I lived in...

Biodiesel from Sugar Cane 14 Jul, 2009 10:14 am I was intrigued by a story in MIT Technology Today concerning a company that is applying biotechnology to convert Brazilian sugar cane to diesel, instead...

An Energy Bill for the Other 92% 4 Jul, 2009 08:18 am Now that the Waxman-Markey Bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009--all 1428 pages of it--has been narrowly passed by the House of Representatives,...

Sustainable Energy 25 Jun, 2009 10:27 am I just ran a quick search on Google Trends to check my hunch that the phrase "sustainable energy" has become a lot more common, lately. That seems to be...

CAFE Convergence 3 Jun, 2009 01:36 pm On May 19, President Obama announced a comprehensive framework for vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions. While I'm not sure I'd go quite as...

The Water Behind Ethanol 7 May, 2009 01:42 pm While last year's "food vs. fuel" controversy has largely died down, thanks to lower corn prices, a new study from the University of Minnesota suggests...

Perfect Energy 16 Apr, 2009 08:17 am The recent start-up of the latest large-scale nuclear fusion experiment, the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,...

The Wrong Enemy 31 Mar, 2009 09:23 am While reading an article on oil company taxation in the Wall Street Journal, I ran across a quote from Treasury Secretary Geithner that crystallized my...

Storing Sunlight 16 Mar, 2009 03:04 pm An article in MIT's Technology Review on a new liquid battery technology got me rethinking an assumption I've been making for some time concerning the...

Alternative Energy And Natural Gas 13 Jan, 2009 06:08 pm At the end of the first full work week of the new year--a week I suspect I am not alone in having found a bit of a slog--a pair of articles in MIT's Technology...

Cheap Gas 9 Dec, 2008 11:58 am As rapidly as it has fallen, the average pump price of unleaded regular gasoline in the US still has a ways to go, to end up lower on Barack Obama's Inaugural...

Iran's Oil Shield Slips 4 Nov, 2008 05:18 pm Between the US election and the gyrations of the financial markets, some important implications of the declining price of oil haven't received the attention...

The Energy Diet 5 Sep, 2007 02:56 pm An article I read over the long weekend got me thinking about how we talk about energy supply and demand, particularly when we're looking at alternatives...