ASCE Texas Webinars Series Presents:

Energy IRC

This ASCE webinar provides an overview of the American Society of Civil Engineers Texas section 2025 Infrastructure Report Card for Energy. For the first time, this expanded report card included an evaluation of the increasingly interconnected nature of the electric and non-electric energy infrastructure and its impact on the reliability and resilience as essential infrastructure serving society. This webinar will provide a high-level overview of the Texas energy infrastructure and review the analysis conclusions and industry challenges that led to awarding a grade of C.

Fast forward to May 2026, where the future is here today. A series of highly complex market changes are accelerating transformations that will dramatically impact the energy infrastructure sector and all Texans for decades to come. This webinar will highlight these changing conditions from the perspective of how they impact reliability and resilience. Lastly, the webinar will identify the critical steps that need to be prioritized to ensure that reliability and resilience of the energy network remain a critical priority throughout this rapid period of industry transition.

Speakers

Geoffrey D Roberts, Jr. has over 40 years of global executive and technical experience in the energy and water industries.
Geoff is the President of Flow Resources LLC, a start-up entity developing large scale Energy Districts throughout the United States. He is an independent director for the
Stockholm, Sweden based EQT Infrastructure Company LLC. Geoff serves as an Advisory Board member for FiberSense, a deep technology company that utilizes existing fiber cable networks as a highly sensitive sensor array to provide real time situational awareness for damage prevention, condition monitoring, and leak detection. Geoff serves as the President of RRRR Investments LLC, a private investment fund focused on start-up infrastructure technologies in environment, water, technology, and energy field since 1999. His career spans operational, and commercial experience with NextEra (formerly FPL), Shell Oil, Enron Corp. and Entergy, including international leadership assignments developing and operating energy infrastructure and building and managing energy origination and trading businesses in North America, Europe, South America, Australia and Asia. During the past 20 years, Geoff has served as a Board member for 9 different private equity sponsored portfolio companies, including 7 as Chairman, in the energy, infrastructure and environmental space. These companies included Innovyze, Synagro Technologies, Contanda Terminals, Midland Cogeneration Ventures, Peregrine Midstream Partners, Restaurant Technologies Inc, Entegra Power, and Primus Green Energy.

Geoff earned a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Miami in 1982, and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University in 1986. He is licensed by TCEQ as a Class A wastewater treatment operator. He completed an executive certificate in Strategy and Innovation from MIT Sloan in 2021.

Geoff serves as the co-chairman of the ASCE Texas Infrastructure 2025 Report Card committee for energy and recently served as the ASCE Texas Committee Chair for the Beyond Storms task committee focusing on winter storms Uri and Viola and co-author of the Reliability and Resilience in the Balance report.

Oliver E Smith, Jr., a native Texan, studied at Michigan State University, earning a BS and MS in Civil Engineering. Oliver was also commissioned as a Reserve Officer in the US Army Corps of Engineers and was promoted to the rank of Captain during his 7 years of active and reserve duty. He has performed various project/program engineering and process/manufacturing/supply chain leadership roles for the US Army Corps of Engineers (Fort Carson, Colorado), Exxon Company USA (Houston), BASF Corporation (Baton Rouge), Frito-Lay (Dallas), CH2M Hill ( Los Angeles, CA ), and 3M Company (Minnesota, Texas, Connecticut). He retired from 3M Company in 2017 after providing 27 years of engineering and manufacturing / supply chain leadership. Oliver has received special recognition for his leadership accomplishments, including the Certificate of Meritorious Achievement from the City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works and Michigan State University College of Engineering Co-Operative Education recognition for excellence in recruiting MSU Engineering Students into 3M engineering summer assignments. He has served in leadership roles with the Texas Chapter, American Society of Civil Engineers Beyond Storms Task Force and 2025 Energy Infrastructure Report Card reports. As a 23-year member of Rotary International, Oliver has managed projects in Ethiopia and Uganda, creating clean water sources in rural communities. He resides in Austin Texas with his wife of 50 years, D Elizabeth, and has three adult children and two grandchildren.