David A. Schlissel
David A. Schlissel is the President of Schlissel Technical Consulting. He has worked for over fifty years as a consultant, an expert witness, and, initially, an attorney on financial, engineering and rate-making issues in the fields of energy and climate change.
Mr. Schlissel’s work in recent years has focused on the technical and economic viability of new and, for the most part untested, technologies currently being marketed as effective tools for decarbonization. These technologies include small modular reactors (SMRs), large reactors, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), producing hydrogen from methane, and generating electricity by burning green hydrogen (produced using electricity from renewable resources) in turbines.
Mr. Schlissel has been retained by regulatory commissions, environmental organizations, consumer advocates, publicly-owned utilities, non-utility generators, states and cities. He has presented expert testimony in more than 180 cases before regulatory boards and commissions in 39 states, federal regulatory agencies, and in state and federal court proceedings. He also has been the lead author for a number of reports including Small Modular Reactors: Still Too Expensive, Too Slow and Too Risky, Blue Hydrogen: Not Clean, Not Low Carbon, Not a Solution, Blue Hydrogen's Carbon Capture Boondoggle, and Don't Get Burned: The Risks of Investing in New Coal-Fired Power Plants.
Mr. Schlissel holds BS and MS degrees in Astronautical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. In addition, he received a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford University School of Law. He has also studied Nuclear Engineering and Project Management in a non-degree program at MIT.