DOE launches new energy efficiency and renewable energy advisory committee

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has established the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Advisory Committee (ERAC). ERAC is a federal advisory committee whose members will report directly to the Secretary of Energy with advice on the portfolio of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The 19 members selected have experience in a variety of sectors and will bring a range of technical expertise and perspectives to the committee.

ERAC will periodically review EERE’s portfolio and provide advice to the Secretary of Energy on a variety of areas including: completion of long-range plans, priorities and strategies; program funding; and any issues of specific concern expressed by the Secretary of Energy or the Assistant Secretary for EERE.

ERAC is expected to meet twice a year; the meetings will be open to the public. The Committee is being established in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). DOE also expects to organize various subcommittees under ERAC. The selected members of the ERAC are:

Yet-Ming Chiang	Kyocera Professor of Ceramics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lonnie Edelheit	Senior Vice President, Research & Development, General Electric Company (Retired)
Ira Ehrenpreis	General Partner, Technology Partners
Philip Giudice	Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
Hal Harvey	CEO, ClimateWorks Foundation
Mark Jacobson	Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program, Stanford University
Jay Keasling	CEO, Joint BioEnergy Institute and Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Neal Lane	The Malcolm Gillis University Professor, Rice University
Ed Lazowska	Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Richard Lester	Japan Steel Industry Professor, Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and faculty co-chair and founding Director of the Industrial Performance Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kathleen McGinty	Operating Partner, Element LLC
Arati Prabhakar	Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
Stanley Pruss	Partner, 5 Lakes Energy LLC
Burton Richter	Paul Pigott Professor in the Physical Sciences Emeritus, Senior Fellow Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, Stanford University; and Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Arthur Rosenfeld	Distinguished Scientist Emeritus, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Janette Sadik-Khan	Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation
Subir Sanyal	President and Manager of Reservoir Engineering Services, GeothermEx, Inc.
Maxine Savitz	General Manager, Honeywell/AlliedSignal (Retired)
Mark Stoering	Vice President, Portfolio Strategy & Business Development, Xcel Energy