Energy Innovator Award Judges
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 Mitnic, 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., 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 • 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.
1 • 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 • 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 2 • 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
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
3 • 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 • 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
4 • 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
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
5 • 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 • 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
6 • 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 • 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
7 • 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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