A prolific author, respected industry thought leader, and seasoned communicator, Makansi has been analyzing the technological, business, and regulatory issues in electricity production and delivery for over twenty-five years. Makansi's experience includes serving as Director, Power Generation for Myplant.com, a division of Honeywell, and serving as Editor-in-Chief of Power and Electric Power International magazines and as a contributing editor of Electrical World magazine. During his 18-year tenure with The McGraw Hill Companies, he researched and analyzed every aspect of electricity generation and visited power plants around the globe.
Mr. Makansi has appeared on CNBC and the Financial News Network and has been interviewed on NPR. He was featured in a History Channel production of Modern Marvels on power plants. He has been interviewed for and quoted in Newsweek and CFO magazine, has written special sections on energy for Business Week, and has had articles published in Power magazine, Electric Power International, Global Energy Business, Electrical World, Power Engineering, Combined Cycle Journal, IEEE Spectrum, and others.
He is a member of the United States Energy Association, the National Coal Council, the International Society for Industrial Ecology, the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, and he serves on theThe Electric Power Conference Series Program Committee and the Executive Committee ISA/EPRI Power Industry Division Conference.
Makansi earned a BS in chemical engineering from Columbia University.
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