GGA Board of Directors

GGA Board of Directors

Executive Committee

GGA President

Ron Suess
President, RES Co.
1275 4th St., Ste 105
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Phone 707.541.0976
Fax 707.546.9139

Ron has been involved with The Geysers for more than 40 years. He began his career at The Geysers shortly after PG&E Unit 1 was completed. Ron began his career at The Geysers as a Marine Biologist assigned to do fish studies in Big Sulphur Creek. Nevertheless, his initial task at The Geysers required him to perform the very first mass balances on PG&E Units 1 and 2.

Ron is a staunch advocate for geothermal energy in general and especially the geothermal industry at The Geysers. He has advocated on behalf of The Geysers in Washington D.C. and Sacramento.

Ron continues to provide multi-faceted services to The Geysers and other clients with his consultant company, RES Co. Ron is a co-owner of the Bottle Rock Power Corporation that intends to operate its Bottle Rock Power Plant located at The Geysers. Ron has a broad-based technical education as well as a master's degree in theology and a juris doctor degree in law. He looks forward to engaging in ongoing service for the benefit of the geothermal industry at The Geysers.

GGA Vice President & Finance Officer

Ralph Aviles,
Calpine Corporation
10350 Socrates Mine Rd.
Middletown, CA 95461

Ralph previously worked on and off-shore California in the oil industry for both Unocal Corp. and Chevron U.S.A. He worked for Unocal in the production engineering department in Santa Rosa supporting Geysers field operations and held various assignments. In 1996 he relocated his office to the Geysers working as a supervisor for the production engineering, new construction and non-destructive testing department. In 1999 after the Calpine acquisition of Unocal's interests in the steam field, Ralph joined Calpine's Geysers operations as a power marketing analyst and is currently employed as a financial analyst at the Geysers. Ralph has been the GGA's finance officer since April of 1995.

GGA Secretary

Ben Barker,
benbarker@earthlink.net
(707) 838-0238

Ben came to The Geysers in 1978 from Union Oil's Research Department and spent fifteen of the next twenty one years here. Trained and registered as a petroleum engineer, Ben was involved in research on water injection, drilling operations, property taxation and strategic planning. During a five year assignment with Philippine Geothermal, he was the manager of computer services as well as reservoir engineering. When Calpine bought Unocal's holdings in 1999, Ben set up his own reservoir engineering consultancy. Although most of his practice now takes him far from The Geysers, he continues to take a keen interest in its progress.

GGA Newsletter Editor

Kathy Enedy
Graphic Vision
3883 Airway Drive, Suite 340
Santa Rosa, CA 95403

gganewsletter@thegga.org

Kathy Enedy worked as a Reservoir Engineer in The Geysers Geothermal Field for PG&E, Calpine Corp., Freeport McMoran, Phillips, and Aminoil for 14 years before starting her own consulting business. Her background in the geothermal industry enhances her position as editor. Many GGA members know Kathy through her membership with the GRC.

GGA Membership and Scholarship Chairman

Steve Enedy
NCPA
P.O. Box 663
Middletown,
CA 95461

ggascholarships@thegga.org

ggamembership@thegga.org

Wayne Stith
NCPA
P.O. Box 663
Middletown,
CA 95461

Wayne is the Environmental Health and Safety Specialist for NCPA. He has been with NCPA since 1987 and a member of the GGA Safety Committee since 1994. Wayne received a degree in Invertebrate Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Sonoma State University in 1983. After graduation he worked in the wine industry as a chemist before becoming the assistant inorganic supervisor for Multi-Tech Labs.

Wayne began his career at NCPA as a Lab Tech. He went back to school at this time to study Industrial Hygiene, Industrial Safety and Environmental Laws. His duties with environmental health and safety began to take up more of his time until NCPA decided to create a full time position for an EHS specialist. Wayne's job is to administer NCPA's Safety Program for it's various sites and the Environmental requirements for the geothermal sites. He is Chairman of the GGA Shell Committee, a member of the GGA Executive Committee, as well as Chairman of various NCPA committees. He is also a Grief Coordinator for Lake County Hospice.

Other GGA Board Members

GGA Public Relations

Margaret Lewis

Calpine Corporation
10350 Socrates Mine Rd.
Middletown, CA 95461

Phone:(707) 431-6132
Fax: (707) 431-6246

lewism@calpine.com

New to the Geothermal industry, Margaret joined the Calpine Team in 2004. Margaret currently supports John Farison , Director – Environmental, Health & Safety, which includes the EHS managers, staff, chemistry lab, hazardous material, safety, etc.

Prior to Calpine, Margaret was the Office Manager and Executive Assistant to the Director and Manager of a Nevada State agency, while residing in Elko , Nevada . Before moving to Nevada , Margaret worked for Blue Shield of California and held various positions while there.

Margaret and her husband have been residents of Loch Lomond since 1987, with the exception of 8 years in Elko , Nevada

Steve Burden,
Calpine Corporation
10350 Socrates Mine Rd.
Middletown, CA 95461

Paul Brophy
EGS, Inc.
725 Farmers Lane, Suite 8
Santa Rosa, CA
95405

Louis Capuano
ThermaSource
PO Box 1236
Santa Rosa, CA
95406

L. Boyd Green
MISWACO
(M-I Drilling Fluids LLC)
P.O. Box 1369
Cobb, CA
95426

Boyd Green grew up in Nebraska where he was introduced to the energy business by uncles. He attended Iowa University studying Geology for three years before he went into the US Air Force for four years. After he left the Air Force, he finished his schooling at Colorado State Teacher's College in Greeley, Co. He worked his way through school by working on oil rigs. After graduation, he worked in off shore oil drilling in Taiwan. After 4 years overseas, he returned to the US and attended the Dresser Industries Mud School studying Leadership training and Drilling Engineering.

He then went to work for Macgabar and in 1980 he became the manager of Dresser Industries Macgobar operation in The Geysers from 1980 to 1992 Boyd is past president of the GGA from 1990-91 and a current (2004) member of the Board of Directors, as well as a current member of the Geothermal Resources Council. He is presently Geothermal Project Manager for MISWACO (MISwaco is the new name for M-I Drilling Fluids). He is happily married to his High School sweetheart, Ruth Anne Green. They have seven grandchildren.

Doug Jung
Two-Phase Engineering
and Research
3209 Franz Valley Rd.
Santa Rosa, CA
95404

Doug Jung, PE, is Principal Engineer with Two-Phase Engineering & Research, Inc. Doug started working at The Geysers in 1977 with Thermogenics as Operations Engineer for the old Unit 15 area. He now provides R&D, facility design and production optimization consulting services to the industry.Among his contributions includes LEAMS (low emissions atmospheric metering separator) for drilling and well-testing, all part of an industry effort to proactive demonstrate safer and environmentally friendlier ways to develop geothermal energy through the use of evolving technology.

Garratt Sharp
Chemist / Consultant
125 Camille Ave.
Alamo, California
95407
925.838.5623

Garratt Sharp is a chemist who was project manager at Trident Environmental and Engineering, Inc. While employed at PG&E, he was responsible for much of the research and development, which lead to the early hydrogen sulfide abatement processes. After leaving PG&E he has worked on geothermal projects in New Zealand, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, California, Utah and Nevada. He is a graduate of Sonoma State University.

Ted Wilmsen
Consultant
4931 Montecito Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA
95404