Frederick Tornatore, Chief Technical OfficerFrederick Tornatore has over 45 years of professional experience in renewable energy development for both the private and public sectors. At TSS Consultants, he directs the technical, environmental, and economic evaluations of a wide number of existing and emerging technologies that use many different forms of biomass (e.g., agricultural, forest, urban wood, municipal solid, animal wastes, food waste, and biosolids from wastewater treatment plants). His work also includes identification of grant funding resources and economics incentives for the development of bioenergy systems. As the Chief Technical Officer for TSS, Mr. Tornatore’s recent experience regulatory, technology, financial and resource evaluation for several biomass utilization projects include: •Conducted technical and economic review of pyrolysis systems for deployment at broiler chicken farms to convert spent chick litter (combination of wood chips and chicken marnure). Currently assisting client with selection of pyrolyis technology and vendor.•Preparation of White Paper regarding California solid waste regulations and statutes for the conversion of solid waste via gasification conversion technology.•Preparation of White Paper regarding developing and permitting waste to hydrogen projects in California and Western United States.•Technical, regulatory, and permitting pathway analyses for several organic management scenarios (i.e., organic/food waste anaerobic digestion to power and/or fuels, organic/food waste to composting, and organic/food waste processing and shipment to wastewater treatment facilities) at a large Northern California MRF and landfill.•Technical and economic evaluation of various bioenergy technologies, including gasification and pyrolysis for deployment in the Eastern Sierras to convert forest thinnings from wildfire reduction activities designed to protect the Town of Mammoth Lakes. Narrowed the potential technologies and developers down to five. Next phase is select the developer of the bioenergy facility that can accept up to 25,000 bone dry tons of forest waste biomass.•Conducted a technology assessment to identify potential developers and vendors of advanced direct combustion and gasification technologies that could utilize forest-sourced biomass from hazardous fuels thinning activities in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin of California and Nevada. In conducting the assessment, over 200 biomass energy technology/utilization companies were examined, with nearly 50 selected to receive a Solicitation of Interest. Mr. Tornatore has also been involved with the facilitation of land use and community acceptance requirements for several biomass and renewable energy projects. Land use and community outreach and acceptance have been a paramount consideration in all of TSS’s siting assessments. Mr. Tornatore also actively participates in the various TSS biomass fuels and feedstock resource assessment studies.Mr. Tornatore has a B.S. in Botany from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the former Chairman of the Sacramento Environmental Commission, which advises the City Council of Sacramento and the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors on environmental-related matters in their respective jurisdictions. Mr. Tornatore also currently serves on the Executive Board of the California Biomass Collaborative and is a current Board Member, and former Chairman, for the Bioenergy Association of California.