Partners

Founded in 1977 by Sens. Charles H. Percy (R-Ill.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), the Alliance to Save Energy (the Alliance) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) based in Washington, D.C., with a mission to promote energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security. For more than 30 years, the Alliance has been at the center of advancing energy efficiency programs and policies in the United States and in more than a dozen other countries.

The Alliance's role as a collaborative energy efficiency leader is reflected in the breadth of its elected board of directors, its more than 150 public and private associates, and in the extent and nationwide/community outreach of the organizations with which it regularly partners. Examples of Alliance partners include the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, state government agencies such as the New York State Energy and Resource Development Authority (NYSERDA), more than 15 state energy offices, utilities, trade associations, corporations and corporate foundations, and many regional and local organizations.

Backstopping the Alliance is a staff of 60 technical and programmatic experts in nearly every sector of energy efficiency. The Alliance has experience in designing, implementing and evaluating programs in energy efficiency financing, building codes and equipment standards, consumer education, industrial efficiency, market transformation, private sector development, and lighting and appliance efficiency. The Alliance is also deeply involved in energy efficiency policy at both the federal and state levels. Alliance staff crafted many provisions contained in the Energy Policy Act of 1992, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Website: www.ase.org

The American Gas Association, founded in 1918, represents 202 local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States. There are nearly 70 million residential, commercial and industrial natural gas customers in the U.S., of which 92 percent - more than 65 million customers - receive their gas from AGA members. AGA is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers, and provides a broad range of programs and services for member natural gas pipelines, marketers, gatherers, international natural gas companies and industry associates. Today, natural gas meets almost one-fourth of the United States' energy needs.

Website: www.aga.org

The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of labor, business, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs. Inspired by the Apollo space program, we promote investments in energy efficiency, clean power, mass transit, next-generation vehicles, and emerging technology, as well as in education and training. Working together, we will reduce carbon emissions and oil imports, spur domestic job growth, and position America to thrive in the 21st century economy.

Website: apolloalliance.org

Today, UC Berkeley is widely known as the preeminent public university in America. Years ago, Berkeley was known as the home of the Free Speech Movement. The Berkeley Blog bridges these two worlds.

We created this interactive site to give voice to the ideas and opinions of our professors in a forum that encourages public comment. Our authors include more than 150 UC Berkeley professors and scholars who will be sharing their thoughts on topical national and global issues. As the nation searches for answers to a litany of burning questions and issues, this site serves as a virtual blackboard for the game-changing ideas pulsing around the campus.

The thoughts expressed here are not that of the University, not official, not predictable, and not of one mind. As in the spirit of the Free Speech Movement, the thoughts expressed here are those of the individual authors.

Website: http://blogs.berkeley.edu

BIO is the world's largest biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. Our mission is to be the champion of biotechnology and the advocate for our member organizations-both large and small

Website: www.bio.org

The Bipartisan Policy Center is a non-profit organization that was established in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell to provide a forum where tough policy challenges can be addressed in a pragmatic and politically viable manner. We seek to develop policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both parties. After reaching shared solutions through principled compromise, we will then work to implement these policies through the political system. The BPC is currently focused on five major issues: national security, health care, energy, agriculture, and transportation. Each of these efforts is led by a diverse team of political leaders, policy experts, business leaders and academics.

Website: www.bipartisanpolicy.org

The California Cars Initiative (CalCars.org) is a Palo Alto-based nonprofit startup of entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and consumers promoting 100+MPG of gasoline (plus a penny a mile of electricity) plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). Somewhat uniquely, we're ourselves a hybrid, focusing both on public policy and technology development, and harnessing buyer demand to help commercialize PHEVs. The increasingly-successful effort is becoming recognized as a hopeful sign we can get off our addiction to fossil fuels. This may be the first time a high-ticket consumer product will be mass-produced and come to market as the result of a "bottom-up/by popular demand" campaign. This could provide a model to be applied in other sectors of society where we need to develop no-petroleum, zero-carbon products.

Website: www.CalCars.org

Ceres (pronounced "series") is a national network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. Our mission: Integrating sustainability into capital markets for the health of the planet and its people.

Website: www.ceres.org

Climate Lab's mission is to develop web-based tools for knowledge sharing and collaboration that drive action to address climate change. We are a nonpartisan nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC that began operation in November, 2008. As a 501(c)(3) organization, Climate Lab relies on support from foundations, government grants, and individual donations.

Website: www.climatelab.org

The Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG), is the trade association for companies that provide products and services in the areas of demand response and smart grid technologies.

DRSG is dedicated to educating and providing information to policymakers, utilities, the media, the financial community and stakeholders on how demand response and smart grid technologies can help modernize our electricity system and provide customers with new information and options for managing their electricity use.

DRSG focuses its efforts on three areas: (1) Advocating on behalf of the DR/SG industry; (2) Gathering and providing its members with intelligence, news, and other information; and (3) Working with the trade, financial and general media to raise awareness about this area and to give members of DRSG greater visibility.

Website: www.drsgcoalition.org

An Uncommon Approach: Four Core Strategies

Founded in 1967 as the Environmental Defense Fund, we tackle the most serious environmental problems with:

- Strong science
- Innovative markets
- Corporate partnerships
- Effective laws and policy

Website: www.edf.org

The Federation of American Scientists develops and advances solutions to important security problems by educating the public and policymakers, promoting transparency, and carrying out research and analysis.

Website: www.fas.org

The Grove Foundation is a private organization focused on energy, medical research, education and safety net services. In energy, we are advocates for converting the U.S. vehicle fleet to electric power in order to lower the nation's consumption of oil.

The Milken Institute is a publicly supported, nonpartisan, independent think tank whose work makes a difference in the lives of people worldwide by helping create a more democratic and efficient global economy.

Website: www.milkeninstitute.org

Increasing global competition for energy resources, growing concern over global climate change, questions about the long-term stability of the Middle Eastern energy supplies and the tremendous progress in new energy technologies all suggest a rapidly changing landscape of energy needs, vulnerabilities, and opportunities.

Responding to these issues, a bipartisan group of 20 of the nation's leading energy experts - representing the highest ranks of industry, government, academia, labor, consumer and environmental protection - joined together to form the National Commission on Energy Policy.

Website: www.energycommission.org

Headquarted in Reno, Nevada, USA, Ormat is a leading company in the renewable energy sector.

The Company has over four decades of experience in the development of state-of-the-art, environmentally sound power solutions, primarily in geothermal and recovered energy generation.

Website: www.ormat.com

Plug In America drives change. We accelerate the shift to plug-in vehicles powered by clean, affordable, domestic electricity to reduce our nation's dependence on petroleum and improve the global environment. We promote Battery Electric and Plug-in Hybrid vehicles for the public to drive today.

Plug In America was formed to raise public awareness of and to advocate for plug-in transportation. We take our inspiration from earlier campaigns that saved around 1,000 of 5,000 production electric cars from being destroyed by the same automakers who put these great, emissions-free cars on the road. Those campaigns were led by individuals (organized around websites of various names) who coalesced into a chapter of the non-profit Electric Auto Association and then founded Plug In America as a separate non-profit on January 2, 2008.

Website: www.pluginamerica.org

Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) is an international policy and law network, bringing together the business and finance communities, policymakers, scholars, lawyers, and science and technology experts to create enabling legislative and policy frameworks for clean energy on the international, national and subnational levels.

Website: www.reilproject.org

Rocky Mountain Institute® (RMI) is an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization. We foster the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining.

Our staff shows businesses, communities, individuals, and governments how to create more wealth and employment, protect and enhance natural and human capital, increase profit and competitive advantage, and enjoy many other benefits - largely by doing what they do far more efficiently.

Website: www.rmi.org

Established in 1996 at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and named in September 2000 in recognition of a generous gift from civic leader Lewis Rudin, the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management is currently led by Anthony Shorris.

The Center works with public, private and non-profit partners in supporting innovative research, convening thinkers and policy-makers from around the region and the world, and training students and leaders in the field. It seeks to focus attention on the linkages between transportation policy and other critical regional and national issues such as housing, economic development, energy security, health care, and education.

Website: wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/

The Southern States Energy Board is an interstate compact, comprised of governors and state legislators from sixteen southern states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Board's mission is to promote economic development and enhance the quality of life in the South, through innovations in energy and environmental programs, policies and technologies.

Website: www.sseb.org

TelCoa is a non-profit organization that brings together a diverse array of organizations, companies, and individuals with the common interest of promoting awareness and adoption of existing and emerging telework and telecommuting applications including virtual contact center services. The coalition's mission is summed up in its tag line, "Enabling virtual, mobile and distributed work through research, education, technology and legislation."

Website: www.telcoa.org

Third Way is the leading think tank of the moderate wing of the progressive movement. We work with elected officials, candidates, and advocates to develop and advance the next generation of moderate policy ideas. Since our launch in 2005, our policy and communications products as well as our issue trainings have been used extensively in the House and Senate, by governors and by candidates ranging from Barack Obama to those running for Congress.

Website: www.thirdway.org