Steven Nadel joined ACEEE in 1989 and was has served as executive director since 2001. Before his promotion he served as deputy director and director of ACEEE’s Utilities and Buildings programs. Before ACEEE, Steve worked for Massachusetts’ largest electric utility and largest environmental group and worked with an inner city housing organization in Connecticut. He has worked in the energy efficiency field for more than 40 years and has over 200 publications. His current research interests include energy and climate change policy; strategies to decarbonize the buildings, transportation and industrial sectors; utility-sector energy efficiency programs and policies; and appliance and equipment efficiency standards. Steve earned a MS in energy management from the N.Y. Institute of Technology and a MA in environmental studies and BA in government from Wesleyan University.
Expertise:
Market transformation emerged as a program concept for energy efficiency in the early 1990s. Utilities, regulators, and stakeholders recognized that significant energy efficiency gains could—in som…
The fifth ACEEE International Energy Efficiency Scorecard evaluates the efficiency policies and performance of 25 of the most energy-consuming countries globally. We used 36 metrics to score each c…
To meet its current power demands as well as the needs of its growing population, Texas must solve its major electric reliability problems, illustrated by widespread power outages during a winter s…
Energy efficiency investments in an infrastructure bill could result in more than 3 million more people working for a year (job-years), more than 4 billion tons of reduced carbon dioxide emissions,…
Decarbonizing the U.S. industrial sector—which is critical to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions—will require implementing and scaling-up innovative process technologies to transform the way many …
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