Energy Innovator Award Judges

2020  Henry L. Berman, CEO, Exponent Philanthropy  Mark Crisson, former President and CEO, American Public Power Association  Marcos Gonzales Harsha, Principal Deputy Director, Office of Technology Transitions, U.S. Department of Energy  Sherry Loos, Rural Community Assistance Program (RCAP) State Coordinator, Great Lakes Community Action Partnership  Virginia L. Wright, Energy Cyber Portfolio Program Manager, Idaho National Laboratory

2019  Richard Adams, Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, National Renewable Energy Lab  Dipka Bhambhani, Director of Communications, U.S. Energy Association  Honorable Richard Glick, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Judith Williams Jagdmann, Chair, Virginia State Corporation Commission  Karen L. Palmer, Senior Fellow & Director of Future of Power Initiative, Resources for the Future  Anda Ray SVP, External Relations and Technical Resources, Electric Power Research Institute

2018  Joy Ditto, President & CEO, Utilities Technology Council  Philip B. Jones, Phil Jones Consulting LLC, Former Washington UTC Commissioner, Past President of NARUC, and Past Executive Director, Alliance for Transportation Electrification  Hank Kenchington, Independent Consultant and Past Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy  Benjamin Schlesinger, Ph.D., President, Benjamin Schlesinger and Associates, LLC, Senior Fellow and Past President, US Association for Energy Economics,  Daniel S. Zachary, Ph.D, Director, Energy Policy and Climate Program, Johns Hopkins University

2017  Kenneth Black, Co-Chairman, ESource  Danielle Sass Byrnett, Senior Advisor, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy  Marvin Fertel, Retired President & CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute  David “Bud” Halla, Senior Advisor, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory  Steve Mitnick, Editor-in-Chief, Public Utilities Fortnightly  David G. Victor, Professor and Director of the International Law and Regulation Laboratory, UC San Diego  Congressman Peter Welch, U.S. House of Representatives, Vermont,  Greg R. White, Executive Director, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

2016  Mr. Nelson Bingel, Vice President, Engineering, Osmose Utilities Services, Inc.  The Honorable Colette D. Honorable, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Congressman David B. McKinley, Member of Congress for West Virginia  Ms. April Salas, Director, Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force Secretariat, US Department of Energy  Mr. Jack R. Stevens, Acting Director, Indian Energy and Economic Development, U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs  Mr. Michael J. Vigeant, Chief Executive Officer, Great Blue Research Inc.

2015  Donna M. Attanasio, Senior Advisor for Energy Law Programs, George Washington University Law School  Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, Member of Congress  Congressman Jerry McNerney, Member of Congress  Eric M. Lightner, Director, Federal Smart Grid Task Force, U.S. Department of Energy 1  Ann McCabe, Commissioner, IL Commerce Commission  J. Arnold Quinn, Director, Office of Energy Policy & Innovation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)  Alan H. Richardson, Retired CEO & President, American Public Power Association  Juliet Shavit, SmartMark Communications, LLC

2014  The Honorable Susan Ackerman, Commissioner, Oregon Public Utility Commission  Dr. Xiaoming Feng, Corporate Research Fellow, ABB, Inc.  The Honorable Cory Gardner, Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives  Jeffrey C. Genzer, Attorney, Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke, P.C.  Michael Mernick, Sr. Vice President, Energy Efficiency Division, ICF International  Dr. Nadarajah Narendran, Director of Research, Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  Susan Vogel, Technology Policy Senior Analyst, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

2013  Honorable Tony Clark, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Mike Howard, EPRI President & CEO  Honorable Doris Matsui, United States Representative of the State of California  Dr. Francis Slakey, Co-Director, Science in the Public Interest, and Upjohn Lecturer on Physics and Public Policy, Georgetown University; Associate Director of Public Affairs, American Physical Society  Reigh Walling, President, Walling Energy Systems, LLC.  Barry Worthington, Executive Director, United States Energy Association

2012  Stanley R. Bull, Associate Director, Emeritus, Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy Laboratory  The Honorable Philip D. Moeller, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  The Honorable Mike Pompeo, Member of Congress, State of Kansas  Robin Roy, Director, Building Energy and Clean Energy Strategy, Natural Resources Defense Council  John D. Siciliano, Editor, Clean Energy Report, Inside Washington Publishers

2011  Rick Bush, Editorial Director, Transmission & Distribution World Magazine  Glenn S., Cannon, Past Chair, American Public Power Association and Retired General Manager, Waverly, IA, Light and Power  Dr. James M. Goodrich, Trustee, North American Reliability Corporation  David W. Penn, Retired – Formerly with Wisconsin Public Power Inc. and American Public Power Association  Hon. Lee Terry, Member of Congress, State of Nebraska

2010  David Terry, Executive Director, NASEO  Linda G. Stuntz, Partner, Stuntz, Davis & Staffier, P.C., Former Deputy Secretary of Energy and Chair, U.S. DOE Electricity Advisory Committee  The Honorable G.K. Butterfield, Member of Congress, State of North Carolina  John Norris, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Austin P. Montgomery, Program Manager, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute

2009  Ronald J. Binz, Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission  Katherine Hamilton, President, GridWise Alliance  Howard Herzog, Principal Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  John L. Neufeld, Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2  Monica Trauzzi, Managing Editor and Host, E&ETV

2008  Dan Delurey, President, Wedgemere Group  The Honorable Ralph M. Hall, Member of Congress, State of Texas  William J. Hausman, Professor of Economics, College of William and Mary  Douglas E. Kaempf, Director, U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program  Marsha H. Smith, Commissioner, Idaho Public Utilities Commission, President, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners  Dan W. York, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy

2007  Doug Carter, Independent Consultant  Chris Holly, Writer, Energy Daily  Tim Mount, Professor, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University  Katrina Pielli, Clean Energy Program Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  The Honorable Marc Spitzer, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Honorable Mark Udall, Member of Congress, State of Colorado

2006  David R. Brown, Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Texas, Austin  Michael Eckhart, President, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)  The Honorable Suedeen G. Kelly, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Steve Lindenberg, Team Leader, U.S. Department of Energy Wind Program  The Honorable Stevan Pearce, Member of Congress, State of New Mexico  Thomas R. Schneider, President, TRSenergy  Rick Sergel, CEO, North American Electric Reliability Council

2005  Prof. Jay Apt, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center  Stanley R. Bull, Associate Director, Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy Laboratory  Kurt J. Conger, Principal Consultant and CEO, EXS Inc.  The Honorable Jay Inslee, Member of Congress, State of Washington  Alexander Mamishev, Associated Professor, Director Of Electrical Energy Industrial Consortium

2004  Sen. Dale Bumpers, Partner, Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC and former Governor and long- term Senator of Arkansas  James Connaughton, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality  Kateri Callahan, President, The Alliance to Save Energy  Jimmy Glotfelty, Director, Department of Energy, Office of Electric Transmission & Distribution  Lynn Hargis, Energy Attorney, Public Citizen  U.S. Rep. Michael Rogers, State of Michigan  Professor Jacqueline Lang Weaver, A.A. White Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center

2003  Guy Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information Administration  Robert Gramlich, Economic Advisor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Scott Hempling, Attorney, Law Offices of Scott Hempling, P.C.  John Kwoka, Professor, Department of Economics, Northeastern University  Diana Moss, Vice President and Senior Research Fellow, American Antitrust Institute  Alex Radin, (retired) Executive Director, American Public Power Association,  John Shimkus, Member, United States Congress, State of Illinois

3 2002  The Honorable Joe L. Barton, Chairman, House Sub-Committee on Energy and Air Quality, House Energy & Commerce Committee, and Representative, Texas  Dave Garman, Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy  Joel Gilbert, CEO, APOGEE Interactive  Richard P. O'Neill, Chief Economic Advisor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Thomas J. Overbye, Associate Professor, University of Illinois  Dan Reicher, Executive Vice President, Northern Power Systems, and Managing Partner, New Energy Capital

2001  Conn Abnee, Executive Director, Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium  Yvonne Y. Clark, Professor, Tennessee State University, College of Engineering  Ken Maize, Electricity Daily  The Honorable William L. Massey, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  David R. Nevius, Vice president, North American Electric Reliability Council  Susan F. Tierney, Principal and Managing consultant, Economics Resource Group, Inc.

2000  Matthew Brown, Program Principal, Energy, National Conference of State Legislatures  Margaret Gardner, Executive Director, Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance  Howard Gruenspecht, Director, Office of Economic, Electricity, and Natural Gas Analysis  Dennis J. Ray, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Energy Markets and Policies, MSB Energy Associates, Inc.  Martin Rosenberg, Editor-in-Chief, Utility Business  Christopher Warfel, President, ENTECH Engineering, Inc.

1999  Marie Leone, Editor-in-Chief, Electrical World magazine  Erroll B. Davis, Jr., President/CEO, Alliant  Linda K. Breathitt, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Chuck Gray, General Counsel, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners  Elizabeth A. Garza, R.J. Covington Consulting  Brent E. Hall, Business manager/president, Local Union 1288 IBEW, Memphis, Tenn.

1998  Martin Cohen, Executive Director, Illinois Citizens Utility Board  James J. Dooley, Senior Research Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  The Honorable Frank Kelley, Attorney General, state of Michigan  The Honorable Dennis J. Kucinich, U.S. Congress, 10th District of Ohio  Howard Ris, Jr., Executive Director, Union of Concerned Scientists  R. William Valentino, President, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority  Denise Warkentin, former editor, Electric Light & Power magazine

1997  Elliot Boardman, Executive Director, Association of Energy Services Professionals  Richard Cowart, Chairman, Vermont Public Service Board  The Honorable James Hoecker, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Camie J. Swanson-Hull, Commissioner, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission  Dr. Costis Toregas, President, Public Technology Inc.

1996  Dr. Merwin L. Brown, Associate Director of Energy Programs, Pacific Northwest Laboratories

4  Peter Fox Penner, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy  John Hoffman, Senior Advisor for Climate Change, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  Ira Krepchin, Editor, Technologies for Energy Management newsletter  Cheryl L. Parrino, Chair, Wisconsin Public Service Commission

1995  Vicky Bailey, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Peter A. Berle, President, National Audubon Society  The Honorable Mark O. Hatfield, U.S. Senate  Dr. Dennis Ray, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison  J.M. Shafer, Administrator, Western Area Power Administration  Lynn Shishido-Topel, Principal & Director Regulation Practice, Chicago Partners (formerly Commissioner, Illinois Commerce Commission)

1994  Doug Bauer, Senior Research Staff , Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Johannes Bauer, Director, Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University  Phillip Bayne, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Energy Institute  Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York State  Dirk Forrister, Special Assistant to Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary, U.S. Department of Energy  Roger Gale , President, Washington International Energy Group  Charles Koch, Law Professor, School of Law, College of William & Mary  Margaret Morgan-Hubbard, Executive Director, Environmental Action  Dave Nemtzow, Executive Vice President, Alliance to Save Energy  Ron Russell, Commissioner, Michigan Public Service Commission  Robert Marritz, Editor and Publisher, Electricity Journal

1993  Donald J. Borut, Executive Director, National League of Cities  Ralph Cavanagh, Senior Staff Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council  Kenneth Gordon, President, Maine Public Utility Commission  Dr. Margaret N. Maxey, Director of Clint W. Murchison Senior Chair of Free Enterprise, College of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin  Richard McClintock, Executive Director, Colorado Public Interest Research Group  Mark T. Mills, President, Mills, McCarthy and Associates  Mary O’Driscoll, Report, The Energy Daily  Dr. Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Director, Center for Building Science, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory  Michael Totten, Senior Associate for Policy, International Institute for Energy Conservation  Dr. Alvin Trivelpiece, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Kurt Yeager, Senior Vice President, Technical Operations, Electric Power Research Institute

1992  Floyd Culler, President Emeritus, Electric Power Research Institute  William C. Hayes, Editor, Electric World  J. Steven Herod, Director, Office of Electric Power Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  Jacob Kaminsky, Manager, Intergrated Resource Planning, United States Department of Energy  Susan S. Lederman, President, League of Women Voters of the United States  Dr. Robert A. Leone, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Management, Boston University  Dr. Walter L. Robb, Senior Vice President, Corporate Research and Development, General Electric Company  Dr. Robert L. San Martin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Utility Technologies, United States Department of Energy  Dr. Charles G. Stalon, Director, Public Utilities Institute, Michigan State University  The Honorable Mike Synar, United States Representative for the State of Oklahoma  The Honorable Pete Wilson, Governor of the State of California

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1991  Ellen Berman, Executive Director, Consumer Energy Council of America Research Foundation  Peter Blair, Program Manager, Energy and Materials Program, Office of Technology Assesment, United States Congress  Donald J. Borut, Executive Vice President, National League of Cities  Michael Davis, Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Energy  Jay Hair, President, National Wildlife Federation  Dr. Douglas N. Jones, Director, National Regulatory Research Institute, and Professor of Regulatory Economics, Ohio State University  Jerry Klepner, Director of Legislation, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees  William G. Rosenberg, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, United States Environmental Protection Agency  Jonathan Schlefer, Editor, Technology Review  The Honorable George A. Sinner, Governor of the State of North Dakota  Dr. Duane Sunderman, Director, Solar Energy Research Institute  Albert Thuman, Executive Director, Association of Energy Engineers

1990  Lionel O. Barthold, Chairman and Principal Consultant, Power Technologies, Inc.  Eric Herz, Executive Director, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.  Ray Kline, President, National Academy of Public Administration  Dr. John Wm. Lamont, Director, Electric Power Research Center, Iowa State University  Sharon L. Nelson, Chair, Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, and President, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners  William C. Salmon, Executive Officer, National Academy of Engineering  Dr. Ernest T. Smerdon, Dean, College of Engineering and Mines, University of Arizona  William A. Spratley, Ohio Consumers' Counsel  Israel Stollman, Executive Director, American Planning Association  The Honorable Al Swift, United States Representative for the State of Washington  Charles A. Trabandt, Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  The Honorable Tim Wirth, United States Senator for the State of Colorado

1989  Ashley C. Brown, Commissioner, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio  Chris Flavin, Vice President for Research, Worldwatch Institute  Howard S. Geller, Associate Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy  Michehl R. Gent, President, North American Electric Reliability Council  Martha O. Hesse, Chair, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  The Honorable J. Bennett Johnston, United States Senator for the State of Louisiana  John P. Millhone, Director, Office of Buildings and Community Systems, Conservation and Renewable Energy, United States Department of Energy  The Honorable Carlos J. Moorhead, United States Representative for the State of California  Dr. Tom Trulove, Chair, Northwest Power Planning Council

1988  Peter A. Bradford, Chair, New York Public Service Commission  The Honorable Terry L. Bruce, United States Representative for the State of Illinois  William H. Clagett, Administrator, Western Area Power Administration  Robert W. Fri, President, Resources for the Future  Dr. Janice G. Hamrin, Executive Director, Independent Energy Producers Association  Charles R. Imbrecht, Chair, California Energy Commission  Dr. Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Director, Center Building Science, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California  Jeffrey H. Schiff, Executive Director, National Association of Towns and Townships

6  The Honorable Virginia Smith, United States Representative for the State of Nebraska  Dr. Harry M. Trebing, Director, Institute of Public Utilities, and Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business Administration, Michigan State University  James L. Wolf, Executive Director, Alliance to Save Energy

1987  Ira Flatow, Science Correspondent, National Public Radio, and Host, "Newton's Apple"  Tina C. Hobson, Executive Director, Fund for Renewable Energy and the Environment  William C. Holmberg, Program Director, Fund for Renewable Energy and the Environment  Nancy M. Neuman, President, League of Women Voters of the United States  Vita Ostrander, Immediate Past President, American Association of Retired Persons  Dr. Samuel H. Schurr, Deputy Director, Energy Studies Center, Electric Power Research Institute (R)  The Honorable Philip R. Sharp, United States Representative for the State of Indiana  Andrew Varley, Chair, Iowa State Utilities Board

1986  John A. Anderson, Executive Director, Electricity Consumers Resource Council  The Honorable Tom Bradley, Mayor, City of Los Angeles, California  William Corkran, Past President, APPA, and Former General Manager, Easton, Maryland, Utilities Commission  Donna Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary, Conservation and Renewable Energy, United States Department of Energy  Robert T. Hayden, Executive Director, Renewable Energy Institute  Eric Hirst, Evaluation Systems Group Leader, Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Austin V. Koenen, Managing Director, Shearson Lehman Brothers  The Honorable Edward J. Markey, United States Representative for the State of Massachusetts

1985  Edward F. Burke, Chair, Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission  Ruth Caplan, Legislative Representative, Environmental Action, Inc.  The Honorable Henry Cisneros, Mayor, City of San Antonio, Texas  The Honorable Don Fuqua, United States Representative for the State of Florida  Eugene F. Gorzelnik, Senior Editor, Electrical World  Maxine Savitz, President, Lighting Research Institute  Jon M. Veigel, President, North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation  Barbara F. Warden, Executive Director, National Consumers League  Irvin White, President, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority  Dr. Jerome Wiesner, President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1984  Elihu Bergman, Executive Director, Americans for Energy Independence  The Honorable Stephen J. Bollinger, Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development  Stephen Brobeck, Executive Director, Consumer Federation of America  Newton A. Campbell, President, Burns and McDonnell  The Honorable Patrick Collins, Undersecretary, United States Department of Energy  Joel Darmstadter, Acting Director, Center for Energy Policy Research, Resources for the Future  The Honorable Daniel J. Evans, United States Senator for the State of Washington  Amory B. Lovins and Hunter Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute  Clinton W. Phillips, Immediate Past President, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers  Lee Schipper, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory  Professor Phillip J. Schmidt, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin  Dr. Alvin M. Weinberg, Director, Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge Associated Universities

1983

7  The Honorable Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of the State of Massachusetts  R. Buckminster Fuller, Architect-Designer and Educator  Robert K. Koger, Chair, North Carolina Utilities Commission  Sterling Munro, Vice President and National Director for Public Power, John Nuveen and Company, Inc.  Christopher N. Palmer, Director of Energy and Environment, National Audubon Society  Dr. Linus C. Pauling, Educator and Scientist, Stanford University, and President, Linus Pauling Institute for Science and Medicine  The Honorable Claudine Schneider, United States Representative for the State of Rhode Island  Dr. Samuel H. Schurr, Deputy Director, Energy Study Center, Electric Power Research Institute  Professor David C. White, Director, Energy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Dr. Robert H. Williams, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University  Richard Zelinski, Program Director for Energy, Public Technology, Inc.

1982  Dennis R. Bates, Executive Director, National Community Energy Management Center  Roger E. Birk, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Merrill Lynch and Company, Inc.  C.H. Dean, Jr., Chair, Board of Directors, Tennessee Valley Authority  John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress  Robert D. Hershey, Energy Correspondent, New York Times Bureau  Dr. Walter E. Massey, Director, Argonne National Laboratory (R)  Michael McCloskey, Executive Director, Sierra Club (R)  David Morris, Director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance  The Honorable Robert T. Stafford, United States Senator for the State of Vermont  Dr. Gerald F. Tape, President, Associated Universities, Inc. (R)  Theodore Taylor, Consultant, Princeton University  Margaret B. Wilson, Chair, Board of Directors, NAACP (R)

1981  William Carey, Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science  Dr. Daniel A. Dreyfus, Staff Director, Energy and Natural Resources Committee, United States Senate  S. David Freeman, Chair, Board of Directors, Tennessee Valley Authority  Denis Hayes, Director, Solar Energy Research Institute  Llewellyn King, Publisher, The Energy Daily  The Honorable George Latimer, Mayor, City of Saint Paul, Minnesota  Dr. Walter E. Massey, Director, Argonne National Laboratory  Michael McCloskey, Executive Director, Sierra Club  Roger Sant, Director, Energy Productivity Center, Carnegie-Mellon Institute of Research  Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, University of California  Dr. Gerald F. Tape, President, Associated Universities, Inc.  Margaret B. Wilson, Chair, Board of Directors, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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