American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) - ACORE Announces Newly Elected Board Members

The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) today appear the acclamation of John Geesman and Dan Reicher as Co-Chairs of the Board of Directors alternating with the acclamation of Sue Tierney, Mel Jones, and Howard Learner to the Board of Directors.

Mr. Geesman was appointed to the California Energy Commission in 2002 afterwards a diffuse career as an investment agent specializing in the debt markets. He serves as the authoritative affiliate of the Commission's Renewables Committee and its Facilities Siting Committee, and as the accessory affiliate of its Research and Development Committee.

Mr. Geesman said, "I am enthused and ashamed to footfall into such an important role at ACORE, which has done so abundant these accomplished 5 years to drag the antecedence of renewable activity in the minds of financiers and policymakers. Our claiming now is to coin a accepted eyes a allotment of all elements of the renewables movement and accomplish the game-changing abeyant these technologies offer."

Mr. Reicher is President of New Energy Capital, a New England-based aggregation that invests in, owns, and operates renewable activity and broadcast bearing projects. He is aswell an adviser to the CleanTech Fund of Vantage Point Venture Partners and General Electric’s Ecomagination Advisory Board and is a affiliate of the axle of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Reicher was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

Mr. Reicher noted, "I am accustomed to abide to advice ACORE in its amazing advance as the nation’s arch alignment advancing the renewable activity industry. Over the endure 5 years ACORE has done an absorbing job in bond finance, technology and action in abutment of this fast-growing activity antecedent that is so basic to our future."

The approachable Chairman is Robert L. Pratt, Senior Vice President of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation and ahead Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust.

"I am admiring to accept such agitating Co-Chairs as John and Dan crop the advance for ACORE at a time if the alignment is growing so well. My three-year bout as Chairman of the Board of ACORE has been agitative and badly rewarding, and I’m captivated to about-face over the armchair to John and Dan for the next three years," remarked Mr. Pratt.

The Board abounding an accessible position by electing Dr. Susan Tierney as a affiliate of the Board of Directors and Co-chair of ACORE’s chief Advisory Board. Dr. Tierney, a Managing Principal at Analysis Group, is an able on activity policy, adjustment and economics, abnormally in the electric and gas industries. She ahead served as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Secretary for Environmental Affairs, Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, and controlling administrator of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council. She serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Enhancing the Robustness and Resilience of U.S. Electrical Transmission and Distribution to Terrorist Attack. She chairs the boards of the Energy Foundation and of Clean Air – Cool Planet; and is a administrator of Catalytica Energy Systems Inc., Northeast States Center for a Clean Air Future, EPRI, and Climate Policy Center. She is a affiliate of the Massachusetts Renewable Trust Advisory Council, and the Environmental Advisory Council of the New York ISO.

Dr. Tierney remarked that, "ACORE’s mission is in actuality analytical to this nation’s bread-and-butter and ecology aegis – and I’m captivated to accommodate my duke in acknowledging the organization."

ACORE captivated its anniversary Board elections in October, consistent in the acclamation of Mel Jones and Howard Learner to the Board of Directors.

Mel Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Planet, has helped blueprint the advance of the blooming ability business industry. His above-mentioned 20 years of electric account acquaintance accept been active in Sterling Planet's aboriginal success. Mr. Jones has played a key role in creating cardinal partnerships with account companies, ecology organizations, blooming artefact manufacturers and added cardinal partners.

"I am aflame about accepting adopted to the ACORE Board of Directors. The affair I am a lot of appreciative about ACORE is that it represents all renewable activity technologies. Subsets of the industry (i.e. wind and solar) has aboveboard barter associations that advanced their alone issues. ACORE has developed an accomplished acceptability in advancing the absolute renewable activity industry. I am accustomed to be a allotment of ACORE's administration team," declared Mr. Jones.

Mr. Learner is an accomplished advocate who serves as President of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, the Midwest’s arch ecology acknowledged advancement and eco-business addition organization. He is amenable for the all-embracing cardinal administration and affairs administration for ELPC's plan to advance apple-pie activity development solutions to all-around abating problems, advance the Midwest's ecology quality, and bottle the region's accustomed assets and heritage.

Mr. Learner noted, "I attending advanced to alive calm with my adolescent Board associates to accomplish ACORE even stronger and added effective, abnormally traveling into the 2007 Farm Bill process. Increasing America’s apple-pie renewable activity development is key to convalescent our civic activity aegis and allowance to break our all-around abating problems."

The anew adopted Chairmen and Board associates will crop their seats at the Annual Membership Meeting on November 29th, accepting captivated in affiliation with ACORE's Phase II action appointment in Washington, D.C. on November 30th.

The civic action forum, advantaged "Phase II of Renewable Energy in America: Market Forecasts and Policy Requirements," has been awash out, with pre-registrations accepting capped off endure anniversary at 450 people. The appointment is accepting captivated in the Cannon Caucus Room, which holds 350-400 people. "The absorption this year is unprecedented," said Mike Eckhart, ACORE President, "and we intend to create, on Thursday, a new eyes for how abundant renewable activity will accord to our nation’s approaching activity supply. The acknowledgment will abruptness abounding people."

Tom Weirich
American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE)
Ph: +1-202-393-0001 x7582
Email: weirich@acore.org

About ACORE

ACORE, a 501(c)(3) associates nonprofit alignment headquartered in Washington, D.C., is committed to bringing renewable activity into the boilerplate of the US abridgement and affairs through advice and communications programs. ACORE provides a accepted belvedere for the advanced ambit of interests in the renewable activity association including renewable activity industries, associations, utilities, end users, able account firms, banking institutions and government agencies. ACORE serves as a appointment through which these parties plan calm on accepted interests. Membership advice is accessible at: www.acore.org.