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March 4, 2026
11:00AM - 12:00PM EST
Webinar: EIA’s Role in Supporting the Nation’s Energy Dialogue
Presented by USAEE and LSU Center for Energy Studies
Virtual Event
Join the United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE), on Wednesday, March 4 at 11:00 a.m. EST for "EIA’s Role in Supporting the Nation’s Energy Dialogue," a timely webinar featuring U.S. Energy Information Administration Deputy Administrator Angelina LaRose.
Angelina will address the role of the EIA in serving the energy needs of the nation and industry, and specifically the role of data collection and analysis in the years to come.
Eric Hittinger will serve as discussant for this session. Eric is both chair and professor in the Department of Public Policy at Rochester Institute of Technology and is also a USAEE past president. Time will be allotted for audience questions during the webinar.
Registration is required; there is no fee to attend this webinar.
This webinar is presented in collaboration with the LSU Center for Energy Studies (CES). USAEE gratefully acknowledges CES for its support in hosting this program. As a volunteer-driven organization, USAEE welcomes the engagement and partnership of organizations across the energy economics community. If your organization would be interested in hosting a future USAEE webinar, please contact us at any time.
USAEE is also pleased to partner with CES on the 2026 Energy Fundamentals program — a one-week course providing an overview of the U.S. energy sector, with particular focus on Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Two sessions will be offered this summer, June 22–26 and July 13–17, bringing together early-career professionals, educators, and public-sector participants for an interdisciplinary learning experience covering molecules, electrons, and energy policy.
Angelina LaRose
Deputy Administrator | U.S. Energy Information Administration
Angelina LaRose was appointed Deputy Administrator on November 2, 2025.
Angelina provides leadership, planning, and direction to fulfill the agency’s role as the nation’s premier source of independent, impartial energy information. To accomplish this, Angelina oversees a wide range of statistical, analytical, and dissemination activities that enable the mission. She also serves as a primary spokesperson for the agency, representing EIA in key government and industry forums.
Angelina has supported EIA’s mission for decades. From 2019 to 2025, Angelina was the Assistant Administrator for Energy Analysis. She directed EIA’s energy modeling program, which supports EIA’s forecasts and projections and managed the topical analyses EIA produces that span a range of fuels and activities. From 2016 to 2019, Angelina was the Director of the Office of Integrated and International Energy Analysis. In that role, she was responsible for integrating analysis and modeling for EIA's long-term domestic and international projections, as published in EIA's Annual Energy Outlook and International Energy Outlook, respectively, as well as short-term forecasts, as published in EIA's Short-Term Energy Outlook. In addition, her office produced EIA's country-level analysis and international energy statistics.
Prior to serving in that role, Angelina led EIA's natural gas analysis. For more than 10 years, she worked in natural gas analysis for EIA and contributed to many of her team’s products, including the Natural Gas Weekly Update and the report, Effects of LNG Exports on Domestic Energy Markets. Prior to her leadership of the natural gas team, she was the product manager of EIA's Today in Energy when that publication was launched. Before she worked at EIA, she worked as a senior energy analyst at a private consulting firm.
Angelina earned her MBA with a finance concentration and BA in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Eric Hittinger
Chair, Department of Public Policy | Rochester Institute of Technology
Eric Hittinger holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and a MS in Macromolecular Science and BS in Polymer Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
Professor Hittinger has a background in electricity system policy, operation, and economics, with a focus on understanding the benefits and limitations of energy storage and renewable electricity sources. His research often uses techno-economic modeling of electricity systems to understand the effects of system policies and interactions.
In his current reasearch, Dr. Hittinger is addressing longstanding challenges in both the economic and environmental feasibility of electricity production in the United States. With funding from the National Science Foundation, he and other RIT researchers are providing new avenues for policymakers to develop policies to promote the advancement of low-carbon energy technologies.
Dr. Hittinger is also working to help policymakers deal with the uncertainty of political and economic change by altering the models currently used to understand the evolution of the electricity system. While most extant models employ fixed inputs to account for variables, such as the price of natural gas, Dr. Hittinger’s model utilizes a range possible inputs. By accounting for economic, political, and technological changes, Dr. Hittinger is creating a better approach for making decisions about how to support renewable energy development.
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