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Policy Panelists' Biographies
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Sue Kateley
Executive Director
California Solar Energy Industries Association |
Sue Kateley is Executive Director of
CALSEIA, a position she returned to in 2007, following a 20
years at the California Energy Commission. From 1983 to 1986,
Sue served as Executive Director of CALSEIA. Sue’s first job in
the solar industry was as a purchasing agent for a solar company
located in the Sacramento area, where she worked from 1978 until
1981, when she started working for CALSEIA as Technical Advisor.
CALSEIA is the California Solar Energy Industries Association,
founded in 1977. CALSEIA is the largest solar industry
association and represents all market segments solar industry:
solar thermal, solar electric, concentrating solar power,
manufacturers, distributors, installation companies, designers
and consultants.
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Barry Worthington
Executive Director
United States Energy Association |
Barry K. Worthington serves as
the Executive Director of the United States Energy Association
(USEA), where he directs the Association’s domestic and
international activities. He has served in this capacity since
September 1988. Previously, he served as a Vice President of the
Thomas Alva Edison Foundation and prior to that served in
several capacities with Houston Lighting & Power Company, now
known as Center Point. Mr. Worthington serves as Chairman of the
National Energy Foundation and is also a member of the Board of
Directors of the World Environment Center and the US-China
Energy Environment Center, as well as Trustee of the Energy &
Mineral Law Foundation. He is a guest columnist for Platt’s
Global Energy Business & Technology and servers on the Editorial
Board of Energy. He also is a frequent guest on White House
Chronicles, a Washington based public interest television
series. Worthington holds a Bachelor of Science from the
Pennsylvania State University and Master of Science from the
University of Houston. He has written extensively on energy and
environmental matters, and addresses many conferences on
national and international energy issues.
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David Hochschild
VP of Solaria
CPUC Commissioner in San Francisco |
David Hochschild got involved in solar energy
when he was working as a Special Assistant to the Mayor in San
Francisco five years ago. He worked with a team in SF City
Government to develop San Francisco’s $100 million solar bond,
which was approved by 73% of San Francisco voters in Nov. 2001.
He went on to co-found Vote Solar, a non-profit organization
dedicated to promoting large-scale solar policies at the state
and local level around the country and has spent much of the
last few years working on the newly created $3.2 billion
California Solar Initiative — the nation’s largest solar energy
program. In January, he began a new job as Executive Director of
PV Now, the consortium of leading solar manufacturers. He is
responsible for promoting state level policies to promote solar
energy in North America. A graduate of Swarthmore College and
Harvard’s Kennedy School Government, David lives with his wife
and daughter in San Francisco.
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Chris Busch, Ph.D
Economist
California Climate Program/Union of Concerned Scientists |
Chris Busch, Ph.D., is
an economist in the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate
Program, and has worked on global warming solutions for over a
decade. His current work focuses on implementation of Assembly
Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act. In
particular, he works to advance UCS’ views on effective and fair
design of cap-and-trade as the state moves forward with adoption
of this market-based compliance mechanism. In 2006, Chris
co-authored the report Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in
California (http://calclimate.berkeley.edu/). Previously, Chris
served as a Senior Research Associate in Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory’s International Energy Studies Group. He
also worked in the Lab’s Appliance and Lighting Standards Group.
Chris holds two graduate degrees from Berkeley, a Ph.D. in
environmental economics from the Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics and a master’s degree in public policy from
the Goldman School of Public Policy.
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