Berkeley’s Goldman School Renewable Energy
Report 2022
Tools and Transformative Ideas
Recommendations to the U.S. Department of Energy
This comprehensive anthology presents research and recommendations from an interdisciplinary group of U.C. Berkeley graduate students.
Together at the Goldman School of Public Policy, we focused on renewable energy policy, its challenges, and, importantly, its opportunities as the federal government takes steps to accelerate the country’s unprecedented transition to clean energy sources.
The U.S. Department of Energy will lead much of this arduous work, guiding the thought and planning now required to reduce the nation's greenhouse gas emissions to mitigation levels, slow climate change, and buy critical time for new technologies and adaptation strategies to emerge. These reports, researched and written under the guidance of Steven Weismann, assess program opportunities across ten, often overlapping, issue areas that DOE could pursue to amplify the development and construction of clean, renewably generated electricity with the transmission and distribution solutions needed to deliver it to the nation efficiently and securely, over a more resilient grid. Written by individual teams, each report is unique, covering some of the government's most vital near-term opportunities.
Authors
Goldman School Renewable
Energy Report
A student-led report to transform the United States’ energy system, evolve government collaboration and stop climate change.
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Steven Weissman, Emeritus Lecturer
“Steve Weissman created and directed the Energy Law program at Berkeley Law, where he also taught numerous energy law and policy courses. He came to UC Berkeley from the California Public Utilities Commission where he was an administrative law judge. He also served as policy and legal advisor to three different commissioners at the PUC. He is an energy and environmental attorney, and an environmental mediator. Prior to his appointment as an administrative law judge, he was a staff attorney at the PUC, working on renewable energy and energy efficiency proceedings, as well as cases involving implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act. He has taught energy law and policy classes at Berkeley Public Policy and Berkeley Law since 2006.
He is a former Principal Consultant to the California State Assembly's Committee on Natural Resources, where he wrote and reviewed legislation concerning energy, air quality, and solid waste management. He is a member of the mediation panel for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, and creator of the California PUC's alternative dispute resolution program. In addition, he served as Legal Director for the Local Government Commission, an environmental and social policy think tank providing assistance to local governments. At the Local Government Commission, he wrote policy guidebooks concerning toxic air pollutants, recycling, and land use. He drafted the Ahwahnee Principles, a description of important elements of transit-oriented and pedestrian-oriented development, prepared in collaboration with some of today's most influential architects and planners.
In the City of Berkeley, Steve Weissman has chaired the Parks and Recreation Commission, and the Solid Waste Commission. In addition, he was a member of the Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee, which worked with the university to create a new development plan for downtown Berkeley. He is Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Publication Committee for the Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources. He also teaches energy courses at Vermont Law School and at Lewis and Clark. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship which enabled him to teach during the Fall of 2013 at Universitat Rovira i Virgili near Barcelona. He was recently appointed to the roster of Fulbright Specialists.” - Goldman School of Public Policy
