Mr. Diedzic has than 35 years of leadership, management, entrepreneurial, science and technology, investment, research and development, and fundraising experience addressing global energy, water, and environmental challenges.
Mr. Diedzic contributed to the Energy-Water-Environment Nexus by originating, developing, managing, investing, and/or monetizing a diverse domestic and international project portfolio involving conventional energy, 24/7 carbon free energy, and water quality-related projects, including founding and growing in four (4) years a $2 billion oil & gas investment subsidiary for a Detroit-based natural gas distribution company.
These projects also included regulated electric and gas utility-related nuclear, geothermal, grid-scale solar, offshore wind, and tidal energy; non-regulated oil and gas exploration and production, natural gas/coal-to-liquids, hydrogen, and synthetic fuel production; university-led algal-based biofuels, autonomous unmanned aerial, surface and underwater vehicles for ocean exploration and observation, and harmful algal bloom (HAB) and red tide detection and mitigation technologies; and federal and state public-private partnerships for optimizing Florida’s Lake Okeechobee water management and stakeholder engagement.
For five (5) years prior to the formation of MobileNuclear Energy, Mr. Diedzic worked for University of South Carolina (USC). Mr. Diedzic’s UofSC efforts focused on the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Savannah River Site (SRS) and U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) Mobile Energy and Power initiatives (MEP) initiatives.
USC projects included facilitating their direct engagement in SRS and Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) Management and Operations and establishing a SRS Sustainable Energy and Advanced Manufacturing (SEAM) Complex. SEAM was to be a “commercially driven”, public-private partnership for deploying advanced nuclear reactor technologies and other sustainable energy technologies for consuming DoE’s nuclear waste stored at SRS and producing/manufacturing commercial and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) products and services including electricity, hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia for regional markets. With SRS’s transition from being a DOE Environmental Management (EM) controlled site to a DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) controlled site, establishing a SEAM complex is no longer viable.
AFC MEP initiatives involved developing and applying USC technologies for reducing and/or eliminating costly and hazardous military fuel and water resupply lines for facilitating the Army’s global Multi-Domain Operations. One of these initiatives was developing an ultramobile very mall modular reactor (VSMR).
Mr. Diedzic graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and a master’s in business administration from the University’s Ross School of Business. Mr. Diedzic completed graduate courses for a master’s in nuclear physics at Wayne State University and additional energy course work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan. Mr. Diedzic holds two U.S. patents involving electric power transmission and recently submitted a provisional patent, along with Dr Travis Knight for an ultramobile very small modular reactor. Mr. Diedzic is also Vice President and Senior Commercialization of Technology Fellow at the Cedar Park, Texas-based Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies (ISIT).
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