BRIEF SUMMARY
Steve Wiel is an Engineer, retired after over fifty years of experience dealing with various energy and environmental matters, and now engaged in the ecologial restoration of rainforest in Panama. Steve retired from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in 2005 and is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board of the Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP) that grew out of a collaborative partnership that he initiated at LBNL in 1996 to stimulate the use of energy efficiency standards and labels worldwide. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), the Global Cool Cities Allaince (GCCA) and several other organizations.
From 1992 to 2005, he worked for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he served as Head of the Energy Analysis Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). During his career at LBNL he also established LBNL's Washington Office, served as senior advisor to the US Department of Energy on integrated resource planning and demand-side management in the utility sector, led the greenhouse gas mitigation component of the U.S. Country Studies Program, and created the initiative on international energy efficiency standards and labels that evolved into CLASP.
For the eight years prior to joining LBNL, Steve was a Public Service Commissioner, regulating the prices and conduct of Nevada's investor-owned utility companies. For seven years before that, he owned an energy and environmental planning firm in Reno, and was a part-time Engineering Professor at University of Nevada, Reno. He served as the Chairman of NARUC's Conservation Committee for four years, contributing significantly to the development of electric and gas utility companies' integrated resource planning, their investment in demand-side management, incentives for conservation profitability, and environmental accounting.
Steve has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He has published 151 books, articles, reports and papers on the subject of energy efficiency and the environment. He has served as a member of teams advising officials in Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, China, Australia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, the Russian Federation and Mexico, and has otherwise traveled extensively in his work.