CLEAN ENERGY NOW!

Spring 2002 Energy Summit Speakers

Sarah Brush Kristen Jule Melissa Payne Steve Smith Kristin Casper Patrick Keegan Karl Rábago Joel Swisher Sarah Creighton Duncan Marsh Kassie Rorhbach Mark Udall Faith Gemmill Peter Morton Claudine Schneider Randy Udall Susan Innis David Orr Walter Simpson Sarah Zisa

 

Randy Udall

Randy Udall has directed the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE), a nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy since 1994. CORE Director Udall also serves on the Board of Directors of Solar Energy International and Colorado Renewable Energy Society. CORE promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency in partnership with Holy Cross Energy, a rural electric utility serving 40,000 customers. Holy Cross leads the U.S. in the percentage of its customers who buy wind power. In 1998, CORE started the first “solar production incentive” program in the United States; the program pays customers who install PV systems 25¢/kilowatt-hour for their energy. Holy Cross has more grid-connected photovoltaic systems than any of the 930 rural electric utilities in the nation. Holy Cross’ wind, solar, and hydropower programs will keep 500 million pounds of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere over the next 20 years. In 2000, CORE started the nation’s first Renewable Energy Mitigation Fund, which has collected $1,000,000 in building permit fees to install renewable energy systems.

From 1982 until joining CORE, Randy Udall was a free-lance writer specializing in the environment and related scientific topics, including energy efficiency, green buildings, acid rain, groundwater depletion, energy, clean air, global warming, and biodiversity. He also edited the quarterly newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the world's foremost energy think tank. As a freelancer, Randy contributed articles to more than a dozen newspapers and magazines, including: National Wildlife, Audubon, Outside, Sierra, the Denver Post, and the Los Angeles Times.