Alice Orrell
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352
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Biography
Alice Orrell joined PNNL in September 2008 as an Energy Analyst in the TP&D group. Her focus is on renewable resource assessments, particularly wind energy.
Alice is a Professional Engineer in the State of Washington and worked in the power industry prior to joining PNNL. As an independent consultant in the wind power industry, her work included building financial pro forma models for developers and distributed wind market studies. She created the Windustry Toolbox Calculator, an Excel pro forma model available online and free to potential wind power project developers to use as a first step in determining if their projects are financially viable.
She also worked as an engineer for an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction contractor designing natural gas fueled power plants. As a power plant design engineer, Alice’s duties spanned the full range of the project development process and included developing heat balances, sizing and specifying equipment for price quotation, evaluating equipment bids from vendors, and writing scope of work documents for proposal packages.
Research Interests
- Wind power project development
- Pro forma modeling and sensitivity analysis
- Thermal power plant heat balance design and project development
Education and Credentials
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Vermont
- M.B.A., Business Administration, University of Washington
Affiliations and Professional Service
- Alice is actively involved in the Society of Women Engineers Eastern Washington Section and the industry networking group Women of Wind Energy.