Maryam Brown, President of Southern California Gas Company (SoCal Gas), will be guest speaker on Wednesday, March 31 at the Rotary Club of Pasadena’s weekly online meeting, which begins at 12 p.m. The meeting is open to the public.
She will speak on the broad topic of “Current Energy Issues” at a time when California and Los Angeles County are starting on a road map towards achieving the goal set by President Joe Biden to have 100 percent clean renewable energy by 2035.
The virtual meeting, live on Zoom, is open to the public.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, SoCalGas is the largest natural gas distribution utility in the United States. SoCalGas delivers affordable, reliable, clean and increasingly renewable natural gas service to 21.8 million customers across 24,000 square miles of Central and Southern California, where more than 90 percent of residents use natural gas for heating, hot water, cooking, drying clothes or other uses.
Natural gas delivered through the company’s pipelines also plays a key role in providing electricity to Californians. About 60 percent of electric power generated in the state comes from gas-fired power plants.
In a statement, the company said from 2013 through 2017, it has spent nearly $6 billion to upgrade and modernize its natural gas system to enhance safety and reliability. The company is also a leader in the region’s clean energy future, and is working to accelerate the use of renewable natural gas from dairy farms, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants and the development of renewable energy storage technologies.
SoCalGas is a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, an energy services holding company based in San Diego. For more information, visit www.socalgas.com.
Before becoming SoCalGas President in 2019, Brown was vice president of federal government affairs for Sempra Energy.
Prior to joining Sempra Energy in 2016, Brown served as the senior energy and environment counsel for the Office of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. From 2011 to 2012, she was the energy chief counsel for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
From 2010 to 2011, she was policy counsel for the U.S. Senate’s Republican Policy Committee. Before that, she was manager of public policy and strategic planning for ConocoPhillips.
Brown serves on the board of directors of the California Chamber of Commerce and the California Business Roundtable. She holds both a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a law degree (Order of the Coif) from Louisiana State University.
To join the Rotary Club’s Zoom meeting, log on to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84583324183?pwd=R3p1bEtTWHp4R0FjLy82VlFKR0x3Zz09 before noon on Wednesday. The meeting ID is 845 8332 4183 and the passcode is 073016.
If you need help with Zoom, call Tammy Silver at (626) 744-9533 or email tamaramsilver@gmail.com.
For more information, visit www.pasadenarotary.com.