Southwest Energy Efficiency Project

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.

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Last Updated: 03/28/2008