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Christopher D. Barry, P.E. is a naval architect and co-chair of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers ad hoc panel on ocean renewable energy. He has worked in design agencies, shipyards and manufacturers in the marine industry and in offshore oil exploration and currently works for the Coast Guard.
Thomas R. Blakeslee is president of the Clearlight Foundation and the author of several books that have been published in nine different languages. He earned a degree from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California in 1962. After working for IT&T in Antwerp, Belgium, he moved to Silicon Valley in California where he helped found several startup companies as Engineering Vice President. In 1980 he used his own money to found Orion Instruments Inc. He served as President and then Chairman of the Board until he retired in 1998. A prolific inventor, he holds patents in such diverse fields as photography, hydraulics, electronic circuits, information display, digital telephony, instrumentation and vehicle guidance. Since retiring from Orion, he has focused on managing his own and others investments. After years of successfully investing in oil and gas stocks, he came to the realization that the burning of fossil fuels was ruining our planet through pollution and global warming. His search for practical solutions led him to geothermal energy, where he found an amazing gap between it's potential and present reality. The Clearlight Foundation is his vehicle for change using his own and friend's personal savings for the good of the planet.
Geothermal Energy Association Leslie Blodgett edits the Geothermal Energy Association's weekly newsletter. She has been involved in the production of many of GEA's recent reports and workshops and has written articles for several renewable energy publications. Prior to her work with GEA, she was an editor with the American Geophysical Union.
Mark Braly was energy advisor to the mayor of Los Angeles during the 70s energy shock, author of the city's prize-winning energy plan, and president of a State of California non-profit corporation which made loans to renewable energy businesses. Now retired, he is a City of Davis, California, planning commissioner working on the city's zero-carbon program.
Adam Browning is co-founder and Executive Director of Vote Solar, a non-profit organization working to bring solar energy into the mainstream.
Dr. Christensen is an expert in cleantech acquisition and investment. She has over 15 years of experience in high-tech marketing and business development management. Most recently, she was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Akeena Solar Inc. and prior to that, she founded and sold two companies. Currently, Dr. Christensen is responsible for customer education at REC Solar. Dr. Christensen holds a Ph.D. in Marketing and Consumer Psychology from the University of London and Universite de Toulouse. She gives guest lectures in marketing, solar and entrepreneurships at leading universities in Europe as well as United States. Dr. Christensen is also an active board member for whynotsolar.org and solarpowereducation.org.
Eize de Vries is Wind Technology Correspondent for Renewable Energy World magazine. An automotive and agricultural engineer by profession, he worked on developing rural water lifting devices and rural transportation equipment in Botswana. Later he worked as a consultant in Mauritania and Bangladesh. Returning to the Netherlands he set up a renewable energy consultancy. Eize has also taught courses in wind energy technology, sustainable product design and related fields.
Gaia Human Capital Consultants Dawn E. Dzurilla is Founder and President of Gaia Human Capital Consultants, an Executive Search Consulting firm solely dedicated to providing recruitment solutions specifically for renewable energy, environmental and corporate sustainability organizations and non-profits. She has twenty years of recruitment experience and approximately ten years of environmental & corporate sustainability experience, including Co-Founding an innovative Socially Responsible Investment Management (SRI) firm, which integrates personal, societal values and environmental concerns with individual investment decisions. She is a resident of Naples, FL and New York City.
Geothermal Energy Association Karl has been the Executive Director of the Geothermal Energy Association since 1997. He was formerly Director of Government Affairs for the American Wind Energy Association and has held senior positions at the National Wildlife Federation and The Wilderness Society. He worked in several positions in the U.S. Congress, including Associate Staff of the House Appropriations Committee and Legislative Assistant to Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minn).
Paul Gipe has written extensively about renewable energy for both the popular and trade press. He has also lectured widely on wind energy and how to minimize its impact on the environment and the communities of which it is a part. For his efforts, the World Renewable Energy Congress honored Gipe as a "pioneer" in 1998, and the American Wind Energy Association named him as the industry's "person of the year" in 1988. In 2004, Gipe served as the acting executive director of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association where he created, managed, and implemented a provincial campaign for Advanced Renewable Tariffs. The campaign sought to adapt electricity feed laws to the North American market and was instrumental in placing the European concept on the political agenda in Canada and the United States.
Michael Goggin joined AWEA in February 2008. He represents the wind industry on transmission and grid integration matters, coordinates member input on the development of policy positions, facilitates the exchange of information between members, handles press inquiries on transmission-related issues, and advocates policy positions that advance wind industry interests. Through these activities, he works to promote transmission investment and advance changes in transmission rules and operations to better accommodate wind energy in the power system while maintaining system reliability. Prior to joining AWEA, he worked for two environmental advocacy groups and a consulting firm supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's renewable energy programs. Michael holds a B.A. with honors in Social Studies from Harvard College.
Julia Hamm has served as the Executive Director of the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) since January 2004. Prior to running SEPA, Ms. Hamm worked as a senior associate at ICF International, a leading consulting firm in the areas of energy and environment, where she supported the US Environmental Protection Agency with the implementation of the ENERGY STAR program. Her career has focused on developing tools to communicate the value of renewable energy and energy efficiency to electric utilities, municipal governments and product manufacturers. Ms. Hamm is the chair of the Solar Power Conference & Expo and is on the board of directors of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from Cornell University.
Christy Herig serves as SEPA’s regional director for the Eastern US. She brings a strong background in the Southeast U.S. private electric utility industry and solar value analysis. In addition to 15 years at Florida Power Corporation (now Progress Energy), Christy targeted solar market definition, valuation and assessment as a Principal Research Engineer at the National Center for PV at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. She also chairs the International Energy Agency’s, PV Power Systems, Task 10: Urban Scale PV Applications, and has provided consulting services to the USDOE, the PV industry and the California Energy Commission.
Michael Hoexter, Ph.D., a renewable energy and energy efficiency advocate, has helped California utilities implement and market energy and resource efficiency programs. His views on the transition to a sustainable energy economy and the valuation of energy and energy services can be found at www.greenthoughts.us.
Tam is a renewable energy law and policy expert with substantial experience in California, on local energy planning and on state policy. He has worked with local governments throughout Southern California through his previous role as Energy Program Director for the Community Environmental Council, a well-known non-profit organization based in Santa Barbara. Tam has contributed frequently to state policy, in Sacramento and in San Francisco at the California Public Utilities Commission. Tam is also a Lecturer in Climate Change Law and Policy at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.
Sue Kateley is Executive Director of CALSEIA, a position she returned to in 2007 following 20 years at the California Energy Commission. From 1983 to 1986, Sue served as Executive Director of CALSEIA. Sue's first job in the solar industry was as a purchasing agent for a solar company located in the Sacramento area, where she worked from 1978 until 1981. In 1981, Sue started working for CALSEIA as Technical Adviser.
Ms. Kiener serves as SEPA`s regional director for the Western US. She brings over 25 years experience in the electric utility industry in the areas of renewable resource portfolios, short and long term strategic planning, green house gas regulation, integrated resource planning, resource adequacy, FERC open access polices and transmission planning, siting and certificate approval. Her focus has been on state and federal energy regulatory and policy implementation and legislative issues for both public power and investor owned sectors. She has worked for both public power and investor owned utilities as well as doing stints with both a consumer advocate agency and a public service board.
AWEA Carl is communications editor at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). He has worked as a journalist in both the energy industry, as a staff writer for Public Utilities Fortnightly magazine, and in the association sector, as senior editor at Association Management magazine. He also has covered the home-building industry, where his areas of greatest interest were sustainable development and "smart growth," and has written articles for numerous other publications as a freelance writer.
Independent Wall Street Analyst J. Peter Lynch has worked, for 30 years as a Wall Street analyst, an independent equity analyst and private investor, and a merchant banker in small emerging technology companies. He has been actively involved in following developments in the renewable energy sector since 1977 and is regarded as an expert in this area. He is currently a financial and technology consultant to a number of companies.
World Future Council Miguel Mendonça is Research Manager for the World Future Council. His background is in forestry, horticulture, geography, history, journalism, social science and environmental ethics. He works in both research and advocacy, focussing on renewable energy policy. He has worked on four continents, campaigning, coalition-building and speaking, and is a member of the steering committee of the Alliance for Renewable Energy, promoting feed-in tariffs in North America. He writes articles, papers, comment pieces and book reviews on renewable energy and other sustainability issues, is author of “Feed-in Tariffs: accelerating the deployment of renewable energy” and is co-writing a new book on decarbonising the global economy, entitled “A Renewable World – Policies, Practices, Technologies.”
Independent Renewable Energy Expert Al has held a number of leadership positions in the renewable energy and finance fields, and most recently was COO and EVP of Environmental Power Corporation/Microgy, a publicly-traded developer of commercial-scale biogas facilities. Previously Al worked for many years in the capital raising and M&A fields, having acted as a merchant banker, investment banker and corporate lawyer. Al has his JD and MBA degrees from Columbia University, and his undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Ithaca Biodiesel Meghan is a founding member and now acting president of Ithaca Biodiesel, a worker-owned biodiesel cooperative in Ithaca, New York. Meghan is a graduate of Cornell University, and trained as a Solar Technician at Farmingdale State University in New York. She is an environmental educator, and was instrumental in researching and editing Biodiesel America by Josh Tickell, author of From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank.
BioDimensions Peter Nelson is a principal in BioDimensions, which provides services and makes investments in startup companies developing new green technology. He is an advisor to Arkansas-based Infinite Enzymes and Ontario-based Stemergy, both of which are working to introduce new agricultural-based opportunities. Nelson was one of six initial steering committee members for the Southeast Sun Grant Initiative based at University of Tennessee which has received over $40 million in Federal funding for university research. In addition, he was one of three original founders of the Biobased Manufacturers Association (BMA).
Tom Nicholas serves as SEPA?s regional director for the Central US. He has more than 20 years of executive level experience in the electric utility industry, including 7 years on both the regulated and unregulated sides of NISOURCE in Indiana. More recently, Tom served as Central US Regional Operations Manager with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and has also served and chaired numerous EPRI and EEI utility committees.
Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition Sean is co-founder and president of the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition and principal of Symmetrix Public Relations & Communication Strategies where he serves the non-profit, energy, and human resources sectors. He has provided public affairs and communications support for energy projects in 18 states during the past twenty years.
Freelance Writer/Poet Sara Parker is a writer and poet based in New Hampshire. She holds a B.A. from Hampshire College with a concentration in creative writing. She has written for numerous publications and, until December 2007, was the Features Editor at RenewableEnergyWorld.com.
Clean Edge Ron Pernick, co-founder and principal of Clean Edge and co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution, is an accomplished market research, publishing, and business development entrepreneur with two decades of high-tech experience. At Clean Edge he has co-authored more than a dozen reports on emerging clean technologies and has worked with a range of clients including multinationals, start-ups, government agencies, and investors.
The Energy Grid Mark C. Robinson's website, www.TheEnergyGrid.com offers a full line of internet marketing services including website design, professional solar powered web hosting, and strategic search engine optimization. Robinson is well-known in the renewable energy industry through his work with Nextek Power Systems, Beacon Power Systems, Advanced Energy, and others.
China Strategies, LLC Lou Schwartz, a lawyer and China specialist who focuses his work on the energy and metals sectors in the People's Republic of China, is a frequent contributor to Renewable Energy World. Through China Strategies LLC, Lou, who is fluent in Chinese, provides clients research and analysis, due diligence, merger and acquisition, private equity investment and other support for trade and investment in China's burgeoning energy and metals industries. Lou earned degrees in East Asian Studies from Michigan and Harvard and a J.D. from George Washington University. For more than 10 years, Lou has taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and its College of Arts and Sciences.
Renewable Recruits Randyn Seibold is a freelance reporter, promoter, and recruiter for Canadian sustainable energy. He draws from diverse background experience, including 3 years as an electrical apprentice, sales and networking, and frequent volunteer activity with the BC Sustainable Energy Association. Randyn owns and operates Renewable Recruits, which helps people find training and careers in renewable energy and energy efficiency north of the 49th. Renewable Recruits is in the process of launching a web portal for Canada's clean energy training & education options, available in mid-May of 2008.
Michigan Technological University David R. Shonnard is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University and Deputy Director of the Sustainable Futures Institute there. Before joining the faculty at Michigan Tech, Shonnard held a postdoctoral research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990-1992. He was a visiting instructor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. Dr. Shonnard's research focuses on environmental transport of pollutants, green engineering (environmentally conscious design of chemical processes), and bioprocess/enzyme engineering of renewable fuels and chemicals from woody biomass.
The Stella Group Scott, founder and president of The Stella Group, Ltd., in Washington, DC, is the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Energy Coalition and serves on the Boards of Directors of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, and the Renewable Energy Policy Project. The Stella Group, Ltd., a strategic marketing and policy firm for clean distributed energy users and companies using renewable energy.
Matt Slavin, Ph.D., is president of Sustainability Consulting Group. He provides strategic planning, research and communications advisory services to business and government in sustainability, energy, and climate change.
Solar Nation Chris Stimpson is a native of Great Britain. After a 13-year career in the Royal Air Force he settled on Cape Cod in 1981. He has spent most of the time since in the advertising business, with a focus on high-tech industries. Chris is the Executive Campaigner and Activist for the Solar Nation advocacy group. In addition, he lends his creative skills to the advertising and publicity efforts of Clean Power Now, a grass-roots group based in Southeast Massachusetts advocating for Utility-scale renewable energy projects.
Mike Taylor is the Director of Research and Education for the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) and leads SEPA’s solar market, technology and policy research and educational programming for over 560 electric utility and solar industry members. Prior to joining SEPA in 2006, Mike spent seven years with the Minnesota Department of Commerce State Energy Office focusing on clean energy policy and program development, including energy efficiency, solar, wind, biomass, biofuels, climate change and utility regulation. In 2002 he received funding to develop and operate the Minnesota Solar Electric Rebate Program, a statewide PV incentive program for consumers. Mike holds a Master in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor in Environmental Biology from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, and currently works for SEPA from an office at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
Emerging Markets Online William Thurmond is the President and founder of Emerging Markets Online, a global energy and biofuels intelligence firm. The author of Biodiesel 2020: A Global Market Survey, his work been cited in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Biodiesel Producer Magazine, the Futurist, Fox News Radio, Reuters TV, NPR and his business has received Forbes Magazine's "Best of The Web" award seven years in a row. Thurmond speaks regularly at industry conferences and events, and is a guest lecturer at the University of Houston's "Energy and Environment" series.
Dr. David Toke is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the University of Birmingham. He has written four books and over thirty articles in peer reviewed journals, various book chapters and many journalistic pieces on environmental policy. The bulk of his published output has been on energy policy, especially wind power and renewable energy. Recently he has written two public policy reports for the World Future Council and two reports for the Green Party of England and Wales.
Power Engineering magazine David Wagman is Managing Editor of Power Engineering magazine, a monthly publication also published by PennWell that addresses electric power generation issues in North America. He has more than 20 years experience writing about the energy industry, including four years as a staff member at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Earlier in his career he was research editor at a regulatory think-tank based at The Ohio State University. He holds an M.S. degree in City and Regional Planning and a B.A. degree in political science.
Clean Edge Clint Wilder is contributing editor at Clean Edge, a research and strategy firm in the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland, Oregon, focused on the business of renewable energy and other clean technologies. He is the co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity, published in June 2007.
Alison Wise is a Senior Strategic Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado, with focus areas in renewable markets and private sector investments, public policy and market/corporate policy. Her primary research interests are in renewable energy and renewable fuels competitiveness and in best practices for incentivizing renewable energy and renewable fuels. Prior to joining NREL, Ms. Wise was a senior research consultant with Clean Edge, Inc. She holds an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon.
Environmental and Energy Study Institute Jetta is an Agriculture and Energy Policy Analyst working with EESI's Agriculture and Renewable Energy program. Currently, she writes for the organization's BCO: Bioenergy, Climate Protection, Oil Reduction newsletters; monitors the reauthorization of the Farm Bill and implementation of its existing energy provisions; and is the primary EESI researcher on three organization project studying effective marketing incentives for biopower, biofuels and biobased products; and monitoring and advocacy related to the Renewable Fuels Standard.
