Meet The Editors

Robert Peltier, Editor-in-Chief
After completing his BS and MS in mechanical engineering at San Diego State University, Bob began his power industry career with the regulated utility, San Diego Gas & Electric Co., the unregulated Energy Factors, Inc. (now Sithe Energies) and gas turbine supplier, Solar Turbines, Inc. In 1987, he joined the faculty of Arizona State University, where he was a tenured professor and taught numerous power-related courses, including gas turbine design, thermodynamics, and power plant design. While at ASU, Bob completed his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and served as director of the university's Energy Management Laboratory for five years. Bob reentered the power industry as manager of production engineering for Stewart & Stevenson Services, Gas Turbine Division in Houston (now part of General Electric Power Systems), where he was responsible for package design and balance-of-plant engineering for turnkey projects based on the popular LM-series of gas turbines. In 1999, Captain Peltier was recalled to active duty in the United States Navy to serve in Washington, D.C., with the Naval Sea Systems Command—the organization that designs, builds, and maintains ships and submarines. He left active duty in September 2002 joining the POWER magazine’s editorial staff as senior editor after working as a contributing editor for several years. Bob was named editor-in-chief of POWER on April 1, 2003.

Angela Neville, Senior Editor
Angela Neville has been covering the environmental issues of the energy and other industrial sectors since 1995. She served as the editorial director of the magazines Environmental Protection and Water & Wastewater News from 1995 through 2007. Angela's columns on environmental law topics earned her one national and four regional awards for editorial excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She has bachelor's degrees in both journalism and English and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

POWER magazine’s contributing editors

Mark Axford, gas turbines
Mark Axford has more than 30 years of energy experience as an engineer, product manager, sales and marketing executive, and independent consultant. Mark is president and chief turbine guy for Axford Turbine Consultants LLC. His clients are primarily fleet owners of gas turbine equipment who rely on Mark for advice on O&M contracting and sourcing of turbomachinery. His practice also provides market analysis and forecasting services for clients evaluating acquisitions and new product introductions. From 1978 to 2001, Mark was VP of sales and marketing for GE’s Aero Energy Products division, which was acquired from Stewart & Stevenson Services Inc. in 1998. He can be reached at www.axford.us.

David Daniels, water treament
David Daniels has specialized in utility-scale water and steam chemistry since joining Utah Power & Light in 1981. Soon after moving to Radian Corp. in 1988, he began working with the company’s materials group to examine and diagnose failures in boilers, turbines, and similar equipment used by utilities and industrials. This group formed Mechanical & Materials Engineering LLC (M&M Engineering) in 1998. David was a founding member of the company. He has shared his unique perspective on the impact of water and steam chemistry on equipment reliability with POWER’s readers as a contributing editor since 1999. David can be reached at www.mmengineering.com.

Bill Ellison, emissions control
Bill Ellison has specialized in stack gas cleanup—including NOx abatement, flue gas desulfurization, and management of the resulting liquid and solid by-products—for over 40 years. Since 2002 he has focused on the technical and commercial development of technology for optimizing NOx emission reduction in scrubbers. Bill has run his own independent consultancy in Monrovia, Md., since 1981 and has been a contributing editor to POWER since 1996. He can be reached at www.ellisoncon.com.

Steven F. Greenwald, legal & regulatory
Steven F. Greenwald, a partner in the San Francisco office of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, has chaired the firm’s 40-member and multijurisdictional Energy Practice Group for the past eight years. He has nearly 30 years’ experience representing major energy industry clients in financings and acquisitions, federal and state regulatory proceedings, negotiations of power purchase, fuel supply, transportation, interconnection agreements, and alternative dispute resolutions and litigation. For the past year, Steven has coauthored POWER’s Legal & Regulatory column and used it to explain and voice his opinion on alternative energy project development. He can be reached at www.dwt.com

Jeffrey P. Gray, legal & regulatory
Jeffrey P. Gray is a partner in Davis Wright Tremaine's Energy Practice Group and has coauthored POWER’s Legal & Regulatory column with Steven Greenwald since April 2007. He can be reached at www.dwt.com.

Tim Hurst, nuclear power
Tim Hurst is president of his own consultancy—Hurst Technologies Corp. The focus of his more than 30 years’ experience in the generation industry has been strategic planning and implementation of digital instrumentation and controls at nuclear power plants worldwide. Tim is a senior member of ISA’s Power Division Executive Committee and the ANS Human Factors Division Executive Committee. He can be reached at www.hursttech.com.

Jim Hylko, nuclear environmental safety and health
Jim Hylko is an integrated safety management specialist for Paducah Remediation Services LLC, with over 18 years’ combined experience working in commercial nuclear power plants and at the Department of Energy. In 2000, Jim received the Elda E. Anderson Award from the Health Physics Society for his regular contributions to its newsletter. He also is a certified quality auditor for the American Society for Quality and has been a POWER contributing editor since 1996. Jim can be reached at www.prs-llc.net.

Ken Maize, business issues
Ken Maize has been covering energy issues as a journalist since 1976, first with Congressional Quarterly, then with Energy Daily, and most recently with Electricity Daily, which he founded in 1993. He joined the POWER staff in October 2006. Prior to experience as an energy journalist, Ken worked for the National Institute of Health and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He also put in stints at the Union of Concerned Scientists in the mid-1980s and the American Public Power Association in the early 1990s

Dick Storm, coal combustion
Dick Storm, president of the consultancy Storm Technologies Inc., was inspired to become a field service engineer by Steve Elonka’s early Marmaduke Surfaceblow stories in POWER. That was while he was in college. In 2007—with more than four decades of hands-on experience designing, testing, starting up, and optimizing the performance optimization of utility-size pulverized coal-fired boilers under his belt—Dick began generously sharing his considerable experience with the readers of POWER. He can be reached at www.stormeng.com.