Advisory Committee Members
The Advisory Committee is composed of 29 members representing a wide range of interests in clean transportation and clean energy issues.
Nicholas Blair
Association of California Water Agencies
Teresa Bui
Pacific Environment
Suzanne Caflisch
Better World Group
Elise Candelaria
Employment Training Panel (Labor and Workforce Development Agency)
Gregory Cane
California Hydrogen Car Owners Association
Brittany Carpenter
Fresno Metro Black Chamber of Commerce
Morgan Caswell
Port of Long Beach
Rev. Charles Dorsey
The Dorsey Group
Larry Engelbrecht
Engelbrecht Consulting
Katrina Fritz
California Hydrogen Business Council
Gillian Gillett
Caltrans (State Transportation Agency)
Beverly Greene
Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District
Jon Hart
PowerFlex
Ted Lamm
UC Berkeley School of Law
Joel Levin
Plug In America
Morris Lum
Recreational Boaters of CA
Bill Magavern
Coalition for Clean Air
Andrew Martinez
CARB (California Environmental Protection Agency)
Micah Mitrosky
IBEW Ninth District
Luis Olmedo
Comite Civico Del Valle
Michael Pimentel
California Transit Association
Laura Renger
California Electric Transportation Coalition
Mariela Ruacho
American Lung Association
Gia Vacin
GO-Biz
Rev. Harvey Vaughn III
Bethel AME Church
Vanessa Warheit
Electric Vehicle Charging for All Coalition
Sam Wilson
Union of Concerned Scientists
Marissa Wu
The Greenlining Institute
Commissioner Patty Monahan
California Energy Commission (Natural Resources Agency)
The Advisory Committee may provide advice on the following topics as related to the Investment Plan:
- Public and private sources of funding, availability and applicability of these sources for the purposes of the Program, and contact information;
- Other financial tools that are available besides grants and loans that can be used to support the objectives of the Program, and the most effective application of grants, loans and other appropriate measures to advance the market penetration of the myriad alternative, renewable and other innovative fuel and vehicle technology options;
- State of technological development of alternative, renewable and other innovative fuel and vehicle technologies, current level of research, development and demonstration support for these technologies, and need for Program support to move these technologies into the market place;
- The effectiveness and magnitude of individual alternative, renewable and other innovative fuel and vehicle technologies to reduce petroleum use, improve air quality and lower greenhouse gas emissions;
- Market applications for alternative, renewable and other innovative fuel and vehicle technologies that can simultaneously maximize petroleum reduction, air quality improvement, and greenhouse gas reduction;
- Market niche applications for alternative, renewable and other innovative fuel and vehicle technologies;
- Coordination with other states to increase the synergy of reducing petroleum use, expanding the use of alternative fuels, improving air quality and lowering greenhouse gas emissions;
- The state of commercial use of alternative, renewable and other innovative fuel and vehicle technologies and the need for Program support to expand their use;
- Analytical and other technical support that will be needed to more clearly delineate the issues and opportunities associated with alternative, renewable and other innovative fuel and vehicle technologies;
- Job skills needed to support an expanding poly-fuel transportation market and current availability of training for these skills; and
- Public and private sources of funding available for job training, applicability to the purpose of the Program, contact information, and the need for Program support to help expand the skilled job pool needed for the future transportation market.