PENNI MCLEAN-CONNER CEE Board Chair

On June 15, the CEE Board of Directors unanimously elected Penni McLean-Conner, Vice President of Customer Care for NSTAR Electric and Gas, as CEE’s new Chair. For the past two years, Mclean-Conner has served on the Executive Committee as Treasurer. “I’m honored to have been asked by my colleagues to lead our efficiency program industry’s only U.S. and Canadian organization,” she explained. “I am fully committed to leveraging CEE’s unique position to deliver more energy saving opportunities to meet the growing needs of our voluntary electric and gas programs.”

Gene Rodrigues, Director of Energy Efficiency at Southern California Edison, who handed over the Chair’s gavel to McLean-Conner, was recognized by the Board for his two years of service and leadership. Rodrigues will continue to serve as a Director.

The hard-working Nominations Committee—who verified all Directors’ continuing interest, commitment, and availability to serve—also recommended the ascent of Rick Leuthauser, Director of Efficiency Services for MidAmerican Energy, to fill the Treasurer’s position on the Executive Committee. Given the recent expansion of the Board, the Committee also recommended keeping the Board at its current size of 19 members and the reelection of the Directors. The Board endorsed the Committee’s recommendations and asked the Committee to continue to examine how the Board might be structured in the future to include perspectives from the growing number of members from regions not historically as well represented.

The Board also elected as non-voting Special Advisors, Kathleen Hogan, Director of Voluntary Partnerships for the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Division of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and David Rodgers, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Efficiency of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Division of the U.S. Department of Energy. Rounding out the Executive Committee are Vice Chair David Goldstein, Energy Program Director at Natural Resources Defense Council, and Secretary Roland Risser, Director of Customer Energy Efficiency for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.

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