Mr. Power has worked for the past thirty years in the energy, environment and engineering fields.  Most recently, he has fostered relationships with and developed technologies for companies in the ocean energy industry.  Prior to Oceana's formation, he successfully linked one of these companies to the U.S. Navy, and, in doing so, developed valuable contacts with Navy engineers.  He conceived and designed the tidal energy collection technology at the core of Oceana's pending patent applications.

 

In his role as Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Power leads Oceana’s planning and engineering effort and is the principal technology investigator under Oceana's Tidal Defense and Energy System (TIDES)™ research and development contract with the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Hydromechanics Directorate and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.  His tidal energy collection invention forms the basis for a development, testing and large-scale field demonstration program currently underway.

 

Mr. Power previously served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, where he was responsible for the management of an annual defense construction budget of more than $180 million.  As an engineering officer, he also successfully supervised the Air Force’s pilot Energy Conservation Investment Program that was later implemented across the Department of Defense. 

 

Some of his other activities in this area have included working overseas in China on environmental issues, spearheading an effort to encourage the greening of United Nations facilities, serving on the Board of the National Council for Clean Indoor Air, and serving on the Board of the Climate Institute for more than twenty years. He holds a civil engineering degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, and a master's degree in City Planning from the University of Tennessee.