Staff Biography for Stephen Wiel
Stephen Wiel is the Nevada Representative for the Southwest Energy Efficiency
Project (SWEEP), a public interest organization promoting energy efficiency
policies and programs in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico,
Utah and Wyoming. SWEEP is based in Boulder, Colorado.
During the 1980s, Mr. Wiel served for 8 years as a Nevada Public Service
Commissioner, presiding over several integrated resource plan filings and
related dockets. He was also prominent in the commissioners' national
organization, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC),
serving as chairman of NARUC's Energy Conservation Committee for four years.
Mr. Wiel is currently the President of the Board of the Collaborative Labeling
and Standards Program (CLASP), a global non-profit corporation he helped found
that serves as the world's primary international voice and resource for energy
efficiency standards and labeling worldwide.
During his tenure as head of the Energy Analysis Department at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory (LBNL), he established LBNL's Washington Office, led the
greenhouse gas mitigation component of the U.S. Country Studies Program, served
as senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy on integrated resource
planning and demand-side management in the utility sector, and created the
initiative on international energy efficiency standards and labels that evolved
into CLASP.
Mr. Wiel also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Council for an
Energy Efficient Economy. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree 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, and has served as a member of teams advising
officials on energy efficiency matters in Pakistan, the Philippines, Indonesia,
Japan, China, Australia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, the Russian Federation
and Mexico. |
