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,