Since retiring a year ago, Stan Feuerberg has been almost as busy as he was when he was overseeing one of the largest energy companies in the Washington, D.C. metro areas. He’s worked as a consultant, proving legal and technical advice when needed, and he’s given time on a pro bono basis to a few non-profit organizations. Feuerberg and his wife, Robyn, even took some time at the end of last month to be honored as a distinguished UNL graduate during Alumni Masters Week. He was one of nine honorees at the March 24 Medallion Dinner on East Campus.
“My affection for the University of Nebraska dates back to my childhood,” noted Feuerberg, a 1974 graduate with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a 1978 graduate of the UNL College of Law. “My older brother and I attended Husker football games in the late 1950s, sitting in the South Stadium ‘Knothole Section’ for 50 cents. I know that the education I received at Nebraska was of high quality and provided the springboard that helped me immensely in my career.”
Feuerberg served 30 years as the president and CEO of the Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) in Manassas, Virginia. NOVEC supplies power to 180,000 customers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Prior to the Medallion Dinner, Feuerberg took time to address challenges affiliated with renewable and alternative energy, electric vehicles (EV) and battery technology with a March 23 presentation in Jorgensen Hall.
“I came away impressed with the engineering facilities on both the Lincoln and Omaha campuses,” he said. “The classroom and lab facilities are bigger and better. Lincoln and NU have changed so much since I was an undergrad in the College of Engineering and, later, as a student at the College of Law.”
Under Feuerberg’s leadership, NOVEC ranked No. 1 nationally in power quality and reliability by JD Power and Associates six times, most recently in 2018. A member of the Nebraska State Bar since 1979, Feuerberg was vice president and COO of the Vermont Electric Power Company and the general counsel for the Western Area Power Administration in the U.S. Department of Energy prior to serving in leadership positions at NOVEC.