ACEEE Champion Awards

Most Recent ACEEE Award Winners

2025 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry Champion Award Recipients

(Top left to right) Rob Morton, Cascade Energy, retired (Lifetime Achievement); Sharon Nolen, Eastman, retired (Lifetime Achievement); Elizabeth Dutrow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, retired (Industrial Leadership); Eric Masanet, Professor and Mellichamp Chair of Sustainability Science for Emerging Technologies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Research and Development); Ethan Rogers, Director of Government Relations, Nidec Corporation (Energy Policy); Jagan Pillai, Senior Technical Program Manager, HVAC Emerging Tech and MEP Scope 3, Amazon (Implementation and Deployment); Shahil Patel, Manager of Energy Services, PSE&G (Young Professional)

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2024 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings Champion Award Recipients

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2023 Summer Study Industry Champion Award Recipients

(Top left to right) William “Bill” Allemon, Constellium (Lifetime Achievement); Jessica Bailey, Nuveen Green Capital (Implementation and Deployment); Kitt Butler, Advanced Energy (Industrial Leadership); Alli Gold Roberts, Ceres (Energy Policy); Simran Kohli, Greenlite (Young Professional); Virginia Lew, California Energy Commission – ERDD (Research and Development); Genevieve Sherman, Nuveen Green Capital (Implementation and Deployment)

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2022 Summer Study Buildings Champion Award Recipients

(Top left to right) Reid Hart, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Research and Development); Bing Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Implementation and Deployment); Clay Nesler, The Nesler Group (Lifetime Achievement); Wally Nixon, Arkansas Public Service Commission (Energy Policy); Lauren Salz, Sealed (Young Professional)

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2021 Summer Study Industry Champion Award Recipients

(Top left to right) Michael Stowe, Advanced Energy (Industrial Leadership); Chante Harris, SecondMuse (Research and Development); Lauren Casentini, Resource Innovations (Energy Policy); Cristina Garcia, Building Electrification Institute (Young Professional); Todd Amundson, Bonneville Power Administration (Lifetime Achievement); Peter Gourlay, Posthumous (Implementation and Deployment)

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2020 Summer Study Buildings Champion Award Recipients

(Top left to right) Frank Gundal, Implementation & Deployment; Ashok Gupta, Lifetime Achievement; Srinivas Katipamula, Research & Development; Maria Stamas, Energy Policy; Ellen Zuckerman, Young Professional

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2019 Summer Study Industry Champion Award Recipients

Chad Gilless, Stillwater Energy; Sandy Glatt, U.S. Department of Energy; and Thomas Wenning, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (on behalf of Wade Willlatt, Nissan North America)

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2018 Summer Study Buildings Champion Award Recipients

Tammy Agard, EEtility; Danny Parker, Florida Solar Energy Center; Richard Cowart, The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)

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2017 Summer Study Industry Champion Award Recipients

Prakash Rao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (on behalf of Michael Muller); Marilyn Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dr. Steve Fawkes, Energy Pro. Ltd.; John L. Nicol, Leidos; and Peter Therkelsen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (on behalf of Lynn Price)

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2016 Summer Study Buildings Champion Award Recipients

The awardees were Scott Wood, Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps; Margie Harris, Energy Trust of Oregon; and John Cymbalsky, U.S. Department of Energy (left to right). Glee Murray, ACEEE (second from right), also received a special Champion of Energy Efficiency award for her 26 years of dedicated service advancing energy efficiency through her outreach and communication efforts at ACEEE.

Learn more about the 2016 Champion Award Winners in the award announcement press release and on the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings website.

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