Jeff Hoffmann
Senior Engineer/Analyst
US Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory
Areas of Expertise:
Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Clean Energy, Coal, Energy Economics, Innovation, Power Sector, R&D, Regulation, WaterJeff Hoffmann is a Senior Engineer/Analyst with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) Office of Clean Coal and Carbon Management (OCCCM) and has two decades of experience spanning a wide range of roles and responsibilities relevant to advanced energy technology research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) efforts. He has extensive knowledge and experience spanning the full RD&D lifecycle of advancing new and emerging fossil-based energy conversion systems, including carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technologies, from concept through commercial scale demonstration.
Mr. Hoffmann has served in a variety of roles across FE, including his present assignment within the OCCCM Office of Strategic Planning, Analysis & Engagement at FE Headquarters and previously at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), DOE's only national lab dedicated to fossil energy research and development. Prior to joining OCCCM, Mr. Hoffmann was responsible for the technical oversight of NETL's Research & Innovation Center's (RIC) research and analysis portfolio aimed at improving the performance and flexibility of conventional and advanced coal-fueled electricity generating technologies. He also served in NETL’s Office of Major Demonstrations and held a number of Project Management and Project Engineering roles on multiple large-scale first-of-a-kind demonstration projects, most recently as the Federal Project Manager for the Department of Energy’s $1.8 billion FutureGen 2.0 CO2 Capture and Storage Initiative. Throughout his career at NETL, Mr. Hoffmann has led the execution of multiple detailed engineering and economic assessments of advanced, low-carbon emitting coal-based energy conversion technologies to gain insights into technical and economic feasibility, as well as near- and long-term deployment prospects, of the studied systems to help guide and prioritize federal RD&D efforts. He is a recognized expert in carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies and for a number of years had served as the DOE representative on the International Energy Agency’s Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEAGHG) Carbon Capture and Storage Cost Network Steering Committee.
Mr. Hoffmann earned separate Bachelor’s Degrees in Chemical Engineering and Biological Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master’s Degree in Energy Science, Technology and Policy (Engineering and Public Policy concentration) from Carnegie Mellon University. His graduate studies focused on addressing technical, market, and societal barriers to rapid deployment of advanced energy technologies, with emphasis on identifying opportunities and understanding challenges facing the integration of CCUS-equipped EGUs into the US bulk power system.