P.O. Box 4245
Burlington, Vermont 05406-4245 telephone: (802) 652-0056
FAX: (802) 658-0563 - e-mail: samswanson@aol.com
SUMMARY
Sam Swanson has more than 20 years experience directing integrated resource planning, energy efficiency programs and environmental regulation to achieve balanced economic and environmental goals. Mr. Swanson’s experience extends to a wide range of electricity and gas planning and regulation functions, including efficiency program planning and evaluation, renewable resource assessment and planning, load management, the environmental impacts of utility operations, and energy research and development policy, utility planning, management audits of utility demand side management programs and rate regulation. He has served as a senior policy advisor to the New York Public Service Commission and has presented testimony in proceedings before the New York, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and
Michigan regulatory commissions. Mr. Swanson has been a principal contributor to the development of energy conservation and renewable energy policy nationwide through his leadership on the Energy
Conservation Staff Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Mr.
Swanson now serves as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Pace Law School Energy Project.
Mr. Swanson leads the team at the Pace Energy Project that has developed the Power Scorecard consumer education program that rates the environmental quality of electricity products offered in retail electricity markets and explains briefly the environmental issues related to electricity production options.
The Power Scorecard is available on the Internet at www.powerscorecard.com
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Mr. Swanson directs the US DOE funded Renewable Energy Technology Analysis Project for the Pace
Energy Project. Mr. Swanson provides technical assistance to environmental organizations in several states, helping them with efforts to remove barriers to the deployment of renewable energy technologies, to develop green pricing and green marketing initiatives that link the power of consumer choice to environmental protection and renewable energy deployment. Mr. Swanson serves on the Board of
Directors of the Low Impact Hydropower Institute and Renewable Energy Vermont.
Mr. Swanson is advising the Vermont Electric Company on efforts to incorporate demand side planning in plans to meet transmission service needs in transmission constrained areas of its network.
Mr. Swanson has advised the Vermont Public Service Board on its efforts to develop and implement an
“energy efficiency utility” to replace the utility managed demand side management programs. Public
Service Board Chairman Michael Dworkin recognized Mr. Swanson for the key role he played in the development of the Board’s Vermont efficiency utility initiative, Efficiency Vermont .
Mr. Swanson is an effective group facilitator. He facilitates planning and decision making in a variety of settings in his role as Director of the Pace Renewable Energy Technology Project. Mr. Swanson’s work at the NYS PSC required that he often bring together parties with widely divergent views to consider policy and program options involving difficult to balance competing interests. He has been trained in mediation/negotiation by the Harvard Negotiation Project. Over the years Mr. Swanson has established a reputation for fairness and diligence which is valuable for deliberations on important high stakes issues.
Mr. Swanson has presented testimony on the costs, benefits, and policy options associated with renewable resource and energy efficiency choices facing electric utilities and regulators in proceedings
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before regulatory commissions in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Vermont during 1994, 1995, 1996 and
1998. In 1995 Mr. Swanson led two National Renewable Energy Laboratory sponsored field investigations of opportunities to encourage electric utility investments in solar technologies in Arizona and wind technologies in Colorado. These field investigations aimed to bring together utility renewable resource planners, environmental advocates and NREL staff to consider opportunities for and obstacles to solar energy development in Arizona and wind energy development in Colorado.
During 1992-93 Mr. Swanson mediated the development of a NYS PSC approved settlement among utility, consumer, independent power producer, and public policy stakeholders in New York that set forth a multi-year plan for utility renewable resource technology demonstration and use.
From 1989 to 1995, Mr. Swanson contributed to the development of regulatory practices and studies supporting renewable resource development nationwide as a member of the Renewable Energy
Subcommittee of the NARUC Energy Conservation Committee.
Mr. Swanson led the NYS PSC assessment of “Green Pricing” programs, the marketing of clean “Green” electricity service options to consumers at cost that led to a Green Pricing service program experiment by
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation in 1995. At the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies he worked to improve the Public Service Company of Colorado Green Service program. Mr. Swanson has studied the different trials of Green Pricing being developed or tested nationwide. He has presented testimony on
Green Pricing options in Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1995 - present Senior Policy Advisor and Renewable Energy Technology Analysis Project
Director for the Pace Law School Energy Project
1995 - present Independent consultant - providing analysis in the areas of renewable energy, energy efficiency in regulated and competitive markets.
1991 - 1995 Deputy Director, Office of Energy Efficiency and Environment
New York State Public Service Commission (NYS PSC)
1993 - 1994
1982 - 1991
Senior Technical Advisor, Land and Water Fund of the Rockies (Boulder, CO)
(during a one year leave of absence from the NYS PSC)
Chief, Energy Conservation and Environmental Analysis
Office of Energy Conservation and Environment, NYS PSC
1975 - 1982
1971 - 1975
EDUCATION
Chief, Environmental Program Analyst
Office of Environmental Planning, NYS PSC
Principal Environmental Program Analyst
Office of Environmental Planning, NYS PSC
Certificate in Regulatory Economics - Graduate School Department of Economics, State University of
New York at Albany
September 17, 2001
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Master of Public and International Affairs in Economic and Social Development, Graduate School of
Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor of Arts in Economics - State University of New York at Stony Brook
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September 17, 2001