• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Mark W. Menezes

United States Department of Energy

Under Secretary of Energy

The Honorable Mark Wesley Menezes, the Under Secretary of Energy for the US Department of Energy, is the principal advisor on energy policy as well as technological solutions through coordinated planning, management and performance of the Department’s energy programs. Prior to being confirmed as Under Secretary of Energy, Mr. Menezes was an executive with Berkshire Hathaway Energy. Before joining BHE, Mr. Menezes was a partner at Hunton & Williams LLP, where he headed the Regulated Markets and Energy Infrastructure practice group. Prior to Hunton, he served as Chief Counsel, Energy and Environment, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, serving as chief negotiator for the House Majority in the enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Before his service with House Energy & Commerce, he was Vice President with Central and South West, and upon its merger with American Electric Power, served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel for federal and state legislative and regulatory affairs. Mr. Menezes is a graduate of Louisiana State University receiving both his undergraduate and juris doctor degree. Until joining the government he was a charter member of the Advisory Council and Louisiana State University Law John P. Laborde Energy Law Center.

Sessions With Mark W. Menezes

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 05:30pm - 06:15pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Building Tomorrow's North American Infrastructure

    The shale revolution is configuring US supply, but how is this new supply to be connected to markets in terms of pipelines, ports, and LNG terminals? It’s a game of catch-up. The new National Petroleum Council study Dynamic Delivery: America’s Evolving Oil and Natural Gas Transportation Infrastructure provides a framework for addressing how to meet the new infrastructure needs. This session will discuss the requirements and the technological advances and regulatory reforms that will enable the infrastructure to catch up—that is, go forward to realize the benefits of this new abundance for consumers and the national economy. 

Friday, 13 March