Wayne Lei

Wayne Lei, Board Secretary, retired recently as Director of Research and Development at Portland General Electric (PGE)—a function he lead for over 10 years. In this role, he issued Technical Basis Documents and other white papers on environmental, social and technical issues affecting the company. Notable projects included installation of a grid-scale, 5 MW, 1.25 MW-hr lithium ion battery in Salem and obtaining 5,000 tons of torrefied, renewable biomass for a successful test burn to replace the coal used at PGE’s Boardman Power Plant. Prior to this, Lei was Director of Environmental Policy at PGE and before that he served in the nuclear industry for ten years and still serves on the Reactor Operations Committee at Reed College. In the past, he chaired the Industry Advisory Committee for ABET accreditation to the Renewable Energy Systems degree at the Oregon Institute of Technology. Currently, he serves as the Chief Technology Officer for Oregon Torrefaction, LLC. Mr. Lei holds a doctorate in Environmental Health Sciences specializing in Radiation Hygiene from New York University, as well as degrees from Oregon State University and Oberlin College. Since 1986, he has been certified in the comprehensive practice of Health Physics by the American Board of Health Physics.