Meet our Contributors

The contributors to PowerGen Insights bring decades of experience across power generation, energy infrastructure, fuel markets, and industrial innovation. Together, they provide informed, practical analysis of the technologies, markets, and policies shaping the future of reliable electricity.


Emmanuel Merle

Global Fuel Markets & Energy Trade

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Emmanuel Merle is an international energy executive with more than five decades of experience in global fuel markets, coal trading, and international energy commerce. Throughout his career, he has worked with producers, utilities, and industrial consumers across Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. At PowerGen Insights, he writes about fuel markets, global energy trade, supply chains, and energy security.


Steven Brooks

Engineered Fuels & Power Generation

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Steven Brooks is an energy executive with extensive experience in power generation, engineered fuels, renewable energy, and infrastructure investment. He has led initiatives involving fuel innovation, biomass power, and the integration of engineered fuels into existing energy systems. At PowerGen Insights, he writes about engineered fuels, power generation, and practical approaches to modernizing existing energy infrastructure.


Gregory Merle

Energy Infrastructure & Innovation

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Gregory Merle is an energy infrastructure executive with experience spanning power generation, advanced recycling, resource recovery, engineered fuels, and industrial project development. Through leadership roles with Riverview Energy, FlexOnyx, and Convergen Energy, he has worked on projects involving power generation, fuel innovation, and infrastructure investment. At PowerGen Insights, he writes about energy infrastructure, grid reliability, power markets, and the technologies shaping the future of reliable electricity.