Steve Wiel
Dr. Stephen Wiel, an engineer with over 60 years of experience in energy and environmental matters, is currently serving as the Chair of the Board of the Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP). The program grew out of a collaborative partnership that he initiated at LBNL in 1996 to stimulate the use of energy efficiency standards and labels worldwide. Dr. Wiel is also the former head of the Energy and Environment Division’s Energy Analysis Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; a former Public Service Commissioner in Nevada; the past Chairman of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Conservation Committee, and a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
From 1992 to 2004, Dr. Wiel worked for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he opened an office in Washington, D.C. to represent LBNL's Energy and Environment Division there and then returned to LBNL's Berkeley offices to become Head of the Energy and Environment Division's Energy Analysis Department. In 2004 he retired from the Lab to devote his time exclusively for CLASP.
For the eight years prior to joining LBNL, Dr. Wiel was a Public Service Commissioner, regulating the prices and conduct of Nevada's investor-owned utility companies. He served as the Chairman of NARUC's Conservation Committee for four years, contributing significantly to the development of electric and gas utility companies' integrated resource planning, their
investment in demand-side management, incentives for conservation profitability, and environmental accounting. For seven years before that, heowned an energy and environmental planning firm in Reno, and for three of those years was a half-time Engineering Professor at University of Nevada, Reno. For over 20 years, he served on the Board of Directors of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and for several years on two local organizations supporting homeless women and a local modern dance company.
Dr. Wiel has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He has published extensively on the subject of energy efficiency and the environment, and has served as a member of U.S. teams advising officials in many countries around the world.