Angelos Kokkinos spent his entire 44-year professional career in designing and developing systems that generate electricity and energy efficiently, while reducing air and water pollution from fossil fuels.  He is an expert in power plant, environmental controls, and carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas) emissions capture and storage systems, design and operation.

Angelos retired in the summer of 2021 from the U.S. Department of Energy where he was Director of Research and Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Advanced Fossil Technologies and Carbon Management in the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, managing $500 million annually of research in this area.  Prior to joining the government, he was CTO of Babcock Power Inc., of Danvers MA, a major supplier of fossil and concentrated solar power generation and environmental control systems and was Chief Engineer of the Ivanpah Solar Power plant steam generators the largest concentrated solar power plant in the world. Kokkinos has also worked for the Electric Power Research Institute, Babcock & Wilcox, and Combustion Engineering (now GE Power). He is the holder of six U.S. Patents and the 2019 Pennsylvania State University Distinguished Achievement Award recipient in Fuel Science and Energy Engineering.

Angelos emigrated to the U.S. from Greece in 1970 and considers the Lowell area his adopted home.  He has been happily married to his lovely wife Susan, a Littleton native, since 1977.  In the fall he can be found watching his Nittany Lions football team, while during the winter he is at the Tsongas Arena watching his beloved Riverhawks play hockey and listening to the world’s best hockey pep band.  He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UMass Lowell and a M.S. in Fuel Science from The Pennsylvania State University.