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Carl Zichella, Director of Western Energy Transmission, San Francisco
Carl Zichella is the director for Western transmission for NRDC. He is the organization’s lead staff for western U.S. renewable energy transmission siting and serves on a nationwide team working on renewable energy development issues. In this role he works with stakeholders from environmental organizations, renewable energy development and transmission industries, local, state and national governments, regulatory agencies and the public to find renewable energy transmission solutions that accelerate renewable energy development while respecting wildlife and land conservation efforts.
Before joining NRDC he was the director for western U.S. renewable projects for the Sierra Club. He served in leadership capacities on the Sierra Club staff for 23 years.
Carl is a director of the Climate Action Reserve, founding steering committee member of the California Apollo Alliance, a director of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology (CEERT), environmental representative on the Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI), environmental representative to the Western Governor’ Association Renewable Energy Zone identification process, environmental representative for the Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s Transmission Expansion Planning Policy Committee, and was a founding director of the American Wilderness Coalition.
He lives in Davis, California with his wife Sarah and their dogs Lambchop and Dudley.
Recent Posts
Posted October 5, 2011 by Carl Zichella in Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cleanenergy, renewable, smart grid, smartgrid, transmission
The Obama administration’s Rapid Response Team for Transmission (RRTT), today announced a plan to accelerate the permitting and construction of seven transmission lines that are forecast to create thousands of operational and construction jobs. These projects are intended to serve...continued→
Posted August 24, 2011 by Carl Zichella in Curbing Pollution
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- cleanenergy, energy, renewables, smartgrid, transmission, westernenergy
Despite the partisan bitterness infecting our politics, a consensus has quietly been taking hold across the country for a major change in the way we fuel our economy. A number of recent polls (see Public Support for Climate & Energy...continued→
Posted November 17, 2010 by Carl Zichella in Green Enterprise, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, Solving Global Warming
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- climatechange, congress, energy, renewable, smart grid, transmission, wildlife
Despite the outcome of the mid-term election, the United States is in the process of making a historic transition in the way we fuel the world’s largest economy – from dirty, high carbon energy like coal plants and oil to...continued→
