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CalWEA is a non-profit corporation supported by members of the wind energy industry, including turbine manufacturers, project developers and owners, component suppliers, support contractors and others. CalWEA represents its members in California's policy forums, seeking to encourage and support the production of electricity through the use of wind generators.
Deborah Reyes, AES Wind Generation, Inc. - President
Laurence Greene, Acciona Energy North America
Doug Levitt, CalWind Resources, Inc.
Brian O'Sullivan, Coram Energy Group, Ltd.
Peter Pawlowski, CPV Renewable Energy Company
Ken Primavera, Ameron International
Hal Romanowitz, Oak Creek Energy Systems, Inc.
Mark Tholke, enXco Development Corp.
Nancy Rader
Dariush Shirmohammadi
Joseph Karp
Scott Govenar
Tom Beach
Susan R. Schneider
Anne E. Mudge
Scott Powers
 From left to right: Tom Beach, Nancy Rader, Joseph Karp, Scott Govenar
Nancy Rader, Executive Director
Nancy Rader has 20 years of experience as a renewable energy advocate. She has represented CalWEA since its inception in 2000, serving as its executive director since 2002. From 1994 to 1998, Ms. Rader served as policy advisor to and West Coast Representative of the American Wind Energy Association, and was honored as AWEA's "Wind Industry Person of the Year" in 1996.
In her former role as a consultant, Ms. Rader advised renewable energy industry companies and trade associations in the U.S. and Canada, state utility consumer advocate offices, trade associations of municipal utilities, electric industry service companies, electric industry research institutions, state and national consumer and environmental advocacy organizations, and Japanese and European government agencies and officials.
As a consultant, she specialized in the design of Renewables Portfolio Standard policies - a concept she developed for the wind industry, programs supported by Public Goods Charges, fuel-source disclosure policies, including methods of tracking fuel-source information, transmission system rules that accommodate intermittent renewable resources, and community aggregation programs.
Ms. Rader has prepared major reports on renewable energy policies for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the National Wind Coordinating Committee. She has authored and presented many papers and articles on renewable energy policy and on the implications of "green marketing" for the promotion of renewable energy.
Ms. Rader received a B.A. in Political Science/Public Service from the University of California at Davis. She received an M.A. degree in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Dariush Shirmohammadi, Transmission Advisor
Mr. Shirmohammadi has a 30-year tenure in the electric power industry where he has held technical leadership positions in all areas of transmission and distribution planning and operations as well as in the design and implementation of electricity markets. Some of his most recent assignments have been Director of Regional Transmission Organization with the California ISO, Chief Technologist with the North American Energy Credit and Clearing Corporation (NECC), Senior Vice President and Head of Americas Energy Markets with the OM Group, Managing Consultant with PA Consulting Group, Director of Emerging Energy Market Services with Perot Systems Corporation, and the Director of Energy Systems Automation Group with Pacific Gas & Electric Company. In 2006 and while at the CAISO, Dariush led a team of representatives from renewable generation developers, environmental groups, regulators and electric power utilities to study and develop the Tehachapi Transmission Project and the Sunrise Powerlink Project, two of the largest regional transmission projects in the nation intended to interconnect major renewable resource areas. He also serves on the leadership team of the NERC task force working on large-scale integration of renewable generators. In his role as Transmission Advisor to CalWEA, Mr. Shirmohammadi represents all California wind generation developers on the state's Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI), advises CalWEA on transmission policy issues, and provides advice to wind project developers on the CAISO's generation interconnection process. Dariush has authored and co-authored numerous technical papers and reports and has lectured in academic, industrial and regulatory forums around the world. He has a Ph.D. in Electric Power Engineering from the University of Toronto and is a registered professional engineer. Mr. Shirmohammadi is also a fellow of IEEE.
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Joseph Karp, CalWEA's Attorney (Visit Winston & Strawn)
Mr. Karp focuses on energy-regulatory and transactional matters and on project development and operations matters. His practice covers both domestic and international natural gas and electricity issues. He has particular experience representing end users with regard to retail gas and electricity transactions and generators of electricity with regard to the full range of issues affecting electricity revenues, fuel costs and ongoing operations.
Mr. Karp also has significant experience representing renewable project developers and buyers of renewable power, including with respect to wind, biomass, landfill gas, geothermal and other technologies. In these respects, Mr. Karp is routinely involved in administrative litigation, contract negotiation, dispute resolution and regulatory compliance advice. Mr. Karp also has participated in numerous electricity generation asset sale transactions and in significant domestic and international project finance transactions, representing buyers, sellers, developers and lenders. In 2004, he was designated a Northern California "Super Lawyer" in the Law & Politics Magazine survey of leading lawyers in the region.
Mr. Karp received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton, 1986 (Foundation Award for Academic Excellence, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, 1989.
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Scott Govenar, Governmental Advocates, CalWEA's Lobbyist (Visit Governmental Advocates)
Prior to joining Governmental Advocates, Mr. Govenar was an Account Executive at Edelman Public Relations Worldwide in Los Angeles. At Edelman, Mr. Govenar maintained the ongoing daily activities of the L.A. Resource Program -- the City of Los Angeles' curbside recycling program, including development and implementation of community outreach programs, and developed written press and community relations materials for Los Angeles International Airport's Master Plan. Mr. Govenar's previous public relations experience was with the firm of Valencia, Perez & Echeveste in Pasadena. There, Mr. Govenar assisted with a variety of clients including, McDonald's, Bank of America, and Southern California Edison. Additionally, Mr. Govenar has developed public education and outreach campaigns for the California Coastal Commission and the Malibu Foundation.
Mr. Govenar holds a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Southern California.
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R. Thomas Beach, CalWEA's Economic and Technical Consultant
Tom is the owner and principal consultant of Crossborder Energy. Crossborder Energy provides expert testimony, strategic advice, market intelligence, and economic consulting services on market and regulatory issues in the natural gas and electric industries. From its offices in Berkeley, California, Crossborder Energy focuses on energy markets in California, the western U.S., Canada, and Baja California, Mexico.
Mr. Beach has been a consultant to the energy industry in California since 1989. During that time, he has participated actively in most of the major energy policy debates in California, including the addition of new natural gas pipeline capacity to serve the state, the restructuring of the state's gas and electric industries, and a wide range of issues concerning California's large independent power community. From 1981 through 1989 he served at the California Public Utilities Commission, including five years as an advisor to three CPUC commissioners. While at the CPUC, he was a key advisor on the CPUC's restructuring of the natural gas industry in California and on the development of the independent power industry in California. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.E. from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Susan Schneider, Phoenix Consulting, CalWEA's CAISO Consultant (Visit Phoenix Consulting)
Ms. Schneider is the Principal and founder of Phoenix Consulting, established in 1999 to provide customized services to energy-industry clients, including an analysis and reporting service on California ISO activities. Before founding Phoenix Consulting, Ms. Schneider served as Vice President - Client Services for the California ISO, where she led the ISO’s start-up effort in the areas of contracts, client relations, tariff compliance, and billing/settlements. Earlier, she played a lead role in the restructuring of the retail electricity and natural gas businesses of Pacific Gas & Electric Company as Director of Restructuring.
Ms. Schneider holds a B.S. in Quantitative Economics, an M.A. in Regulatory Economics, and a certificate from the UC Berkeley executive program “Marketing for Service Industries.”
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Anne E. Mudge, CalWEA's Siting Advisor
Anne ("Annie") Mudge is a partner in Cox, Castle & Nicholson's LLP San Francisco office and co-chair of the Renewable Energy and Climate Change practice group. She represents clients in the areas of land use and the environment. Her work includes siting and permitting major energy (including wind, solar, geothermal, bio-fuels and gas-fired plants), industrial, commercial, residential and major mixed-use communities. She is also a land use litigator with numerous published land use decisions. She has practiced for more than 20 years in the areas of CEQA/NEPA, water supply planning, subdivisions, annexations, zoning and planning, coastal development, wetlands and endangered species. She is the author of numerous articles on land use and environmental topics and speaks frequently on land use topics. Since 2003, she has been a Planning Commissioner for the City of Oakland and was recently selected as one of Northern California's Real Estate Women of Influence.
Ms. Mudge received her Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1984 and her Juris Doctor from Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) in 1987. Ms. Mudge has been named a Northern California "Super Lawyer" every year since 2004, was listed among the top 50 women lawyers in Northern California in 2009, and is rated AV, the highest rating available, by Martindale-Hubbell, which facilitates the peer review process that rates lawyers.
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Scott Powers, CalWEA's Federal Lands Advisor
Scott Powers has 30 years' experience in public land management, primarily with the Bureau of Land Management. Prior to his retirement from the BLM in 2007, Scott served as a field manager for seven years, as Program Manager for the implementation of BLM's wind energy policy, and project manager and interagency co-lead with DOE for the implementation of Section 368 of the Energy Policy Act (EPACT) of 2005, an interagency siting analysis for 6,000 miles of potential energy corridors in the 11 western states involving multiple federal agencies.
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