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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.
Laurence Greene, Acciona Energy North America
George Hardie, Babcock & Brown, LP
Doug Levitt, CalWind Resources, Inc.
Brian O'Sullivan, Coram Energy Group, Ltd.
Deborah Reyes, AES Wind Generation, Inc.
Hal Romanowitz, Oak Creek Energy Systems, Inc.
Dennis Scullion, enXco Development Corp.
Nancy Rader
Joseph Karp
Scott Govenar
Tom Beach
Susan R. Schneider
 From left to right: Tom Beach, Nancy Rader, Joseph Karp, Scott Govenar
Nancy Rader, Executive Director
Nancy Rader has nearly 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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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, 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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