8th Annual
Clean Power Champion Awards Benefit
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
5:30PM – 7:30PM
Cocktail Reception and Hors D'oeuvres
Citizen Hotel
926 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
Honoring
California State Senator Joe Simitian
Chair, Senate Environmental Quality Committee
Steve Black
U.S. Department of Interior
Janea Scott
U.S. Department of Interior
Michael Picker
California Governor's Office
Manal Yamout
California Governor's Office
John Fielder
CEO of Southern California Edison (ret.)
Our Annual Clean Power Champion Awards Ceremony will be held on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. CEERT is hosting another very special party in Sacramento at the Citizen Hotel, 926 J Street to honor six champions and pioneers of energy conservation and green, renewable energy.
We hope you will join us in honoring these six leaders who have contributed so much to building California's renewable energy future by attending the event and/or by co-sponsoring the awards program.
CEERT is a 501 (c-3) nonprofit organization
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CEERT's Clean Power Champions 2011
Senator Joe Simitian
Joe Simitian was elected to the California State Senate in November 2004 to represent the 11th State Senate District, which includes portions of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. His public service over the years includes stints as a State Assemblymember, member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Mayor of Palo Alto and President of the Palo Alto School Board..
Steve Black
Steve Black, counselor to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, moderates a forum on "Natural Gas Hydraulic Fracturing on Public Lands" at the Department of Interior November 30, 2010 in Washington, DC. The forum, on the process in which rock is fractured to access gas wells, included government officials, representatives of the oil and gas industry and environmental advocates.
Janea Scott
Janea Scott is currently working at the Department of the Interior as the Special Assistant to the Counselor to the Secretary. In that role, Ms. Scott assists the Counselor in facilitating and implementing the Secretary's priorities for the Department. One of Secretary Salazar's highest priorities is standing up renewable energy on our nation's public lands, and this is one of Ms. Scott's primary focuses. Ms. Scott serves as one of the co–chairs for the Renewable Energy Policy Group—a group formed by Interior Secretary Salazar and the previous Governor of California and continued by Governor Brown to advance renewable energy projects in California—and she also helps to lead renewable energy initiatives within Interior.
Michael Picker
Michael Picker is a senior advisor to Governor Brown on renewable energy facilities. Picker co-founded an environmental consulting business, the Toxics Assessment Group, and helped organize the Toxics Coordinating Project, a statewide nonprofit coalition of environmental, farm, labor and neighborhood groups that framed local and statewide policy on toxic hazards in California. From 1980 to 1982, he worked as a deputy assistant for toxic substances control under Governor Jerry Brown and helped establish new hazardous waste facility siting and management programs that are now part of the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
Manal Yamout
Manal Yamout is the Special Advisor to the Governor for Renewable Energy
Facilities in the Office of California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. She is
focused on shepherding a cohort of large‐scale renewable energy projects through
the permitting process in time to take advantage of federal stimulus funding and
also on advising Governor Brown on state policy related to renewable energy
issues. She held this same position in the Schwarzenegger Administration.
John Fielder
John R. Fielder recently retired as CEO of Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation's largest electric utilities. Previously, he was responsible for developing and implementing regulatory policies and managing proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission and other regulatory agencies. In that role, he was also responsible for the utility's Environmental Affairs organization. In October 2005, he was elected president of the company.
| Sponsors | Board of Directors |
| BMW Better World Group California Center for Sustainable Energy California Wind Energy Association California Solar Energy Industries Association ConocoPhillips Element Power Environmental Defense Fund enXco First Solar, Inc. First Wind GWF Energy, LLC Howard Wenger Iberdrola Renewables, Inc. MidAmerican Energy Holdings Natural Resource Defense Council Northern California Power Agency Pacific Gas & Electric RES America Developments Robert Bosch, LLC Sacramento Municipal Utility District Smith, Watts & Martinez, LLC Solar Trust of America Southern California Edison Southern California Gas Company SunPower Terra-Gen Power, LLC Trina Solar |
Jonathan Weisgall, Chairman MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. Ralph Cavanagh, Vice-Chairman Natural Resources Defense Council Members Darren Bouton, First Solar James Caldwell, Jr., At Large Jeff Cox, UTC Power Kim Delfino, Defenders of Wildlife Diane Fellman, NRG Energy, Inc. Richard Ferguson, At Large Julie Gill, AES Anders Glader, Element Power Matt Handel, NextEra Energy Bonnie Holmes-Gen, American Lung Association Angela Johnson-Meszaros, Clean Air Matters Rey Leon, Latino Environmental Advancement & Policy Project Kevin Lynch, Iberdrola Renewables Jan McFarland, Co-founder of CEERT Jim Marston, Environmental Defense Fund David Olsen, Western Grid Group Roby Roberts, Horizon Wind Energy Rachel Shimshak, Renewable Northwest Project Thomas Starrs, SunPower Corporation Jim Walker, enXco Laura Wisland, Union of Concerned Scientists Carl Zichella, Natural Resources Defense Council V. John White, Executive Director |
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| 3Degrees AES American Wind Energy Association Bonneville Power Administration BrightSource Energy California Solar Energy Industries Association COMVERGE Element Power EnerNOC Environmental Defense Fund enXco First Solar FlexEnergy FuelCell Energy GE Wind Energy Geothermal Energy Association Horizon Wind Energy Iberdrola Renewables Ice Energy |
Itron, Inc. Kyocera Solar MidAmerican Energy Holdings Natural Resources Defense Council NextEra Energy NRG Energy Oak Creek Energy Systems Ormat Technologies PermaCity Solar Ram Power Renewable Northwest Project Sacramento Municipal Utility District Solar Trust of America SolarWorld America SunPower Terra-Gen Power Union of Concerned Scientists UTC Power Vestas Wind Systems |
