The Energy Efficiency Center (EEC) works closely with utilities, government agencies, industry, investors, stakeholder organizations, and researchers from multiple academic institutions to accelerate the impact of emerging energy-efficient technologies.

The EEC Board of Advisers is made up of key industry, academic, nonprofit, and private sector leaders in the energy efficiency field both within California and beyond. Many of the Board of Adviser members serve as executives of organizations that provide critical support to the EEC as Leadership Sponsors, including our founding sponsor, the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), as well as California's major utilities, venture capitalists, and business interests.

(Chair) Michael R. Peevey was appointed President of the California Public Utilities Commission by Governor Gray Davis in 2002. From 1995 until 2000, he served as President of NewEnergy, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Peevey was President of Edison International and Southern California Edison Company and a senior executive there beginning in 1984. He has served on the boards of numerous corporations and non-profit organizations and has received many awards recognizing his leadership in developing energy policy and promoting recognition of California's diverse population, including a "Distinguished Citizen Award" from the Commonwealth Club of California for achievements in green and sustainable energy (2007), the Pat Brown Legacy Award (2003), named "Man of the Year" by the Power Association of Northern California, and recognized with the Climate Action Champion Award by the California Climate Action Registry (2004). He has received leadership recognition from the American Council for Energy Efficiency (2005); the Utility Minority Access Program (2006) and the California Solar Energy Industries Association (2006). Mr. Peevey holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ralph Cavanagh is a senior attorney and Co-Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's energy program, which he joined in 1979. Mr. Cavanagh has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford and UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School; he has also been a faculty member for the University of Idaho's Public Utility Executives Course for more than a decade. From 1993 to 2003, Mr. Cavanagh served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board. His current board memberships include the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, the California Clean Energy Fund, the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, the Energy Center of Wisconsin, the Northwest Energy Coalition and the Renewable Northwest Project. Mr. Cavanagh is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, which the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation established in 2002. He has received the Heinz Award for Public Policy, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Mary Kilmarx Award, Yale Law School's Preiskel-Silverman Fellowship, the Lifetime Achievement in Energy Efficiency Award from California's Flex Your Power Campaign, the Northwest Energy Coalitions Headwaters Award and the Bonneville Power Administration's Award for Exceptional Public Service. Mr. Cavanagh is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.

Peter A. Darbee is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Corporation, and President and Chief Executive Officer of PG&E Company. Mr. Darbee, a veteran of the energy, telecommunications and investment banking industries, joined PG&E Corporation in 1999 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc. (AFC), a telecommunications manufacturer of digital loop carrier systems. Before joining AFC, Mr. Darbee was Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Controller of Pacific Bell. Mr. Darbee previously was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, where he was Vice President and co-head of the company's energy and telecommunications group. He also held positions at Salomon Brothers and AT&T. Mr. Darbee earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has also successfully completed the Nuclear Reactor Technology Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Darbee is a Director of PG&E Corporation and PG&E Company. He is a member of the Edison Electric Institute Executive Committee, serves as Co-Chairman of the EEI Committee on the Environment and is a member of the CEO board for the Clean Energy Group. Mr. Darbee also is active in numerous civic and community organizations, including The Business Council, the California Business Roundtable, the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth, the San Francisco Committee on JOBS, and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.

Jim Davis brings to his position extensive experience in leading the development of value-added services in the energy industry. In 2004, he was recognized for his achievements as Northern California winner of the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Social Responsibility. As President, Mr. Davis has established Chevron Energy Solutions as one of the nation's leading energy services firms and the first comprehensive energy services company in the oil and gas industry. Before joining Chevron Energy Solutions, he served as Senior Vice President of Integrated Solutions for PG&E Energy Services, one of the foremost energy services companies in the nation. As a sales executive and business strategist, he conceptualized and established PG&E Energy Services' integrated energy solution model for major commercial, industrial, and institutional accounts, then developed and managed the supporting marketing, sales, deal structuring, finance and operations functions. The success of this business led to its purchase by Chevron in 2000. Earlier in his career, Mr. Davis served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Duke/Louis Dreyfus, where he led the company's expansion into value-added services. He also managed global, national and regional account teams for Enron Capital & Trade Resources and for Access Energy Corporation, where he developed and headed a vertical market team providing integrated solutions to industrial accounts. Mr. Davis holds a B.S. in business administration, with a major in marketing, from The Ohio State University.

John DiStasio is General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). Prior to his appointment in 2008 to the top post of the customer-owned utility, he served in a series of management positions, most recently as the Assistant General Manager of Energy Delivery and Customer Services. Mr. DiStasio first joined SMUD in 1981. He is the current President of the Northwest Public Power Association (NWPPA), a board member of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the American Public Power Association’s CEO of the Climate Change Task Force and a member of the Large Public Power Council. Mr. DiStasio is also the Vice Chair of the California Municipal Utility Association (CMUA). He is active in international energy issues, serving as a delegate with the United States Energy Association, assisting in electrification, operations and energy market development in other countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Botswana and India. Mr. DiStasio is a member of the American Leadership Foundation, and he is also the owner of DiStasio Vineyards, a commercial vineyard in Amador County, California. Mr. DiStasio received his bachelor’s degree in organizational behavior from the University of San Francisco.

Cree A. Edwards co-founded eMeter Corporation in 1999 and serves as its Chairman and CEO. Previously, Mr. Edwards co-founded CellNet Data Systems, Inc. in 1984. He led the company to becoming the industry leader in providing advanced electricity metering data and communications to utilities, with over 12 million gas and electric smart meters on line via wireless networks and culminating in its 1997 IPO. Long an industry visionary, Mr. Edwards' ideas for revolutionizing utility efficiency via real-time data, automation, and demand response first began to be realized in CellNet's successful hardware and software products. At eMeter, Mr. Edwards continues to drive that vision into next-generation enterprise software supporting clean energy technologies. Mr. Edwards holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Davis.

John R. Fielder is President of Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation's largest electric utilities. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of SCE's Regulatory Policy and Affairs, responsible for developing and implementing regulatory policies and managing proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission and other regulatory agencies. In that role, Mr. Fielder was responsible for the utility's Environmental Affairs organization. In October 2005, he was elected President of the company. Mr. Fielder began his Edison career in 1970 and held a variety of supervisory and management positions in the Information Services Organization. He was named Vice President of Information Services, SCE's technology and systems organization, in 1989. Mr. Fielder assumed the role of Vice President of Regulatory Policy and Affairs in 1992 and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 1998. He is a member of the Rancho Los Cerritos Foundation and serves on the boards of directors of the Miller Children's Hospital, Aquarium of the Pacific, Southern California Leadership Council and Alliance to Save Energy. Mr. Fielder earned his law degree from Pepperdine University Law School, his M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Larry M. Kellerman is Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and President of Cogentrix Energy, Inc. At Goldman Sachs, Mr. Kellerman is responsible for developing power generation asset portfolios as well as managing activities in power commodity origination. Prior to working at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Kellerman served as Senior Managing Director of North American and European Power at El Paso Corporation. He was President of Citizen Power, LLC from 1988 to 1998, where he initiated the operations of the nation's first independent power marketing company. Before that, Mr. Kellerman was the General Manager of Power Supply and Power Marketing for Portland General Electric. He holds a B.A. in Business Management from the University of California, Davis, and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from West Coast University in Los Angeles.

Mark D. Levine is head of the China Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). From 1996 to 2006, he was Director of the Environmental Division, leading 400 people working on energy efficiency, both R&D and policy analysis. From 1983 to 1996, Dr. Levine led the Energy Analysis Department. In 1988, he created and has since led the China Energy Group at LBNL. Today Dr. Levine spends the majority of his time working with collaborators in China on energy efficiency policy. He is a board member of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Center for Clean Air Policy, Center for Resource Solutions and the U.S.-China Green Energy Council. Dr. Levine is a member of the Energy Advisory Board of Dow Chemical Company, the Board of Directors of California Clean Energy Fund and the Advisory Board of the Asian Pacific Energy Research Centre in Tokyo. In 1999, he was elected as a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. In 2008, he received the prestigious Obayashi Prize and the Federation of American Scientists’ Public Service award. In addition to authoring numerous technical publications, Dr. Levine has led a series of high-profile energy analysis activities and developed reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was co-leader of major scenario studies of the U.S., China and global energy system for such organizations as the World Energy Council, the U.S. DOE, the Energy Foundation China Sustainable Energy Program, and others. Dr. Levine is on the editorial boards of four international journals, including Energy Policy and Building Research & Information. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has been the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.

Amory B. Lovins is a consultant experimental physicist, author and visionary in the fields of energy and resource efficiency, environmental policy, and security policy. He co-founded and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Scientist at Rocky Mountain Institute, a non-profit, independent, think-and-do tank that creates abundance by design. Over the past three decades, Mr. Lovins has served as a consultant to hundreds of private and public sector clients in over fifty countries, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He has authored or co-authored 29 books and hundreds of papers, including Natural Capitalism and Winning the Oil Endgame. His work has been recognized by a MacArthur Fellowship, a Time Hero for the Planet Award, and the Blue Planet and Volvo Environment Prizes.

Michael R. Niggli is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), Sempra Energy’s regulated California utilities. He was named COO in 2006. Previously, from 2000 to 2006, Mr. Niggli was president of Sempra Generation where he was responsible for development, operation and maintenance of merchant power plants and energy infrastructure throughout North America. Prior to joining Sempra Energy in 2000, Mr. Niggli was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nevada Power Company and then Sierra Pacific Resources. He guided the company through the deregulation process in Nevada and achieved the highest J. D. Powers and Associates’ customer satisfaction rating of any electric utility in the western United States. Mr. Niggli has also had senior executive responsibilities for strategic planning, customer service, fuels acquisition, marketing and sales at Entergy Corporation. Mr. Niggli holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from California State University in Long Beach and a M.S. in electrical engineering from San Diego State University. He founded the graduate program in power engineering at San Diego State University. Mr. Niggli has provided expert testimony on electric and gas utility matters before numerous legislative committees, public service commissions and city councils at the federal, state and local levels. He currently is Chairman of the Board of the Great Basin National Park Foundation and is co-chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council for Engineering at California State University, Long Beach.

Nancy E. Pfund is Managing Partner of DBL Investors, an investment firm focused on delivering strong financial returns together with positive social, environmental and economic impact. DBL Investors drives sustainability through a combination of investing in cleantech companies, investing in companies from more diversified sectors, and then helping these companies realize the economic benefits of environmental stewardship and branding. DBL Investor's first fund, the Bay Area Equity Fund, implements this strategy through a portfolio of investments in emerging growth companies located in lower-income neighborhoods of the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Pfund currently sponsors or sits on the board of directors of a number of private companies, including Elephant Pharmacy, Tesla Motors, Pandora Corporation, Brightsource Energy and Solar City. Originally a regional venture capital group within JPMorgan, DBL Investors spun out as an independent firm in January, 2008. Ms. Pfund joined JPMorgan (then Hambrecht & Quist) in 1984 as a securities analyst and later joined its venture capital department as principal and then Managing Director in 1989. Ms. Pfund received her B.A. and M.A. in anthropology from Stanford University and her M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.

Daniel W. Reicher is Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives for Google.org. This venture has been capitalized with more than $1 billion of Google stock to make investments and advance policy in the areas of climate change and energy, global poverty and global health. Prior to that, Mr. Reicher served as President and Co-Founder of New Energy Capital Corporation, a New England-based company that develops, invests in, owns and operates renewable energy and distributed generation projects. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Reicher was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. As Assistant Secretary, he annually directed more than $1 billion in investments in energy research, development and deployment related to renewable energy, distributed generation and energy efficiency. Mr. Reicher holds a B.A. in Biology from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

David E. Rodgers is Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Rodgers supports the Assistant Secretary in day to day management of the EERE energy efficiency portfolio. Mr. Rodgers has been with the U.S. Department of Energy for 18 years and has served in the Department's energy efficiency programs for buildings, industry, and transportation. Prior to being designated Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis, in March of 2009, Mr. Rodgers was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency in the Office of Technology Development. From July 2005 through July 2006, Mr. Rodgers served as the Program Manager for the Building Technologies Program. From December 2004 through June 2005, Mr. Rodgers served as Acting Program Manager for the Industrial Technologies Program. Mr. Rodgers served for three years as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Development in EERE. From 1996 through 2002, Mr. Rodgers served as the Director of the Office of Technology Utilization within the Office of Transportation Technologies. During his career at the Department of Energy, Mr. Rodgers has experience with regulatory development, R&D management, deployment activities, partnership development, business systems, and planning and analysis. Mr. Rodgers has received degrees in chemical engineering and computer science from Washington University in St. Louis, and a masters in public management from the University of Maryland. He is a former Presidential Management Fellow. In the private sector, Mr. Rodgers has experience in the chemical, petroleum, and computer industries.

Arthur H. Rosenfeld received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1954 at the University of Chicago under Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi, and then joined the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. There he joined, and eventually led, the Nobel prize-winning particle physics group of Luis Alvarez at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) until 1974. At that time, he changed his research focus to the efficient use of energy, formed the Center for Building Science at LBNL, and led it until 1994. From 1994 to 1999, Dr. Rosenfeld served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. In 2000, California Governor Gray Davis appointed him Commissioner at the California Energy Commission, and in 2005 he was re-appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is responsible for the Public Interest Energy Research program, with an annual budget of $82 million; for energy efficiency, including the California energy efficiency standards for buildings and for appliances; and is the Assigned Commissioner to collaborate with the Public Utilities Commission Proceeding on demand response, critical peak pricing and advanced metering, and the Proceeding on Energy Efficiency Programs, with an annual budget of $600 million. Dr. Rosenfeld is the co-founder of the American Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy (ACEEE), and the University of California's Institute for Energy and the Environment (CIEE). He is the author or co-author of nearly 400 refereed publications, received the Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest in 1986, the Carnot Award for Energy Efficiency from the U.S. Department of Energy in 1993 and the Berkeley Citation in 2001 from the University of California. He is most proud to have received the Enrico Fermi Award, the oldest and one of the most prestigious science and technology awards given by the U.S. government. He received this prestigious award on June 21, 2006 from the U.S. Department of Energy, Secretary Samuel W. Bodman, on behalf of the president of the United States, for a lifetime of achievement ranging from pioneering scientific discoveries in experimental nuclear and particle physics to innovations in science, technology and public policy for energy conservation that continue to benefit humanity. This award recognizes scientists of international stature for their lifetimes of exceptional achievement in the development, use, control or production of energy. This award is particularly important to Dr. Rosenfeld because he was one of Enrico Fermi's last graduate students.

Kim Saylors-Laster is Vice President of Energy for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and has over 15 years experience in the commercial real estate, corporate compliance and energy industries. Ms. Saylors-Laster joined Wal-Mart in 1994 as a Property Manager in a real estate contracts administration role, and is currently responsible for all of the electricity and natural gas procurement within the United States, as well as providing guidance to energy markets within Wal-Mart's International trade areas. Additionally, she is an executive champion of a number of renewable energy causes within the Wal-Mart Sustainability Network. Ms. Saylors-Laster has held leadership roles at Wal-Mart within the site re-development, as Sr. Director of the Distribution Center Real Estate Program, property management, and petroleum-based development segments and as the Vice President of Regulatory Responsibility before joining the Energy team in 2006. In addition to her Wal-Mart service, Ms. Saylors-Laster is affiliated with the Arkansas Bar Association, is a volunteer counselor at the Samaritan House and is an Arkansas Licensed Associate Counselor. She earned a B. A. in Psychology from Arkansas Tech University, a J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, and an M.S. in Community Counseling from John Brown University.