Steven Richardson
Clean Cities Project Manager — Southeast Region
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Steve Richardson is the regional Clean Cities project manager for the Southeast region and is the point of contact for Clean Cities' coalitions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. His responsibilities include facilitating the efforts of the Clean Cities coalitions to increase the use of alternative fuels and vehicles through the development of public-private partnerships. Along with traditional project management duties, Richardson facilitates technology deployment strategies, evaluates proper alternative fuel technologies, determines resource availability, provides technical assistance, contributes areas of expertise, and supports transportation market transformation activities. Richardson has been supporting Clean Cities since August 2006, but has worked at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) since 1990. Prior to working with Clean Cities, he was a member of NETL's Reciprocating Engines Team, serving as a project engineer, principle investigator, and team leader. His work included designing and installing a hydrogen delivery and fueling system and demonstrating the engine's operation on hydrogen fuel. He also worked as a project engineer on fluidized bed gasifier systems and a coal-fired diesel engine, as well as working onsite at the Wilsonville Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) developing a Pyrolysis Gas (PyGas) Cold Flow Model. Steve Richardson |
