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 Jeffrey Harris joined the staff of the Alliance to Save Energy in September 2006 as Vice President for Programs, after more than 25 years as a staff scientist with the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He brings skills in research and analysis, including analysis of the energy-saving potential of proposed policies, project management, and fundraising. His areas of expertise include U.S. energy efficiency policy, international energy efficiency, utility and government sector energy efficiency programs, energy use in buildings, and market transformation.
At the Alliance, Harris oversees the buildings and utilities, industrial, and international programs. He is responsible for maintaining and expanding existing programs; advocating for energy efficiency in the buildings and utilities, industrial, and international arenas; and supporting the development of market-based energy efficiency programs, both domestic and international. He also is responsible for overall management of the Building Codes Assistance Program.
From 1993 until joining the Alliance, Harris led the Government and Industry Programs Group at LBNL’s Washington, D.C., office. As principal investigator and project manager, he was responsible for planning, funding, and directing research and analysis of energy-efficient government procurement, sustainable public buildings, market transformation, international public sector energy efficiency, measurement and verification of energy savings, and policy-oriented behavioral studies.
Prior to that, from 1982 to 1990, Harris led the Buildings Energy Data Group of 30 LBNL staff scientists and research associates. He served as principal investigator for a multiyear project to compile and analyze data on measured performance of new and retrofitted energy-efficient buildings, systems, and equipment, and directed studies of least-cost utility planning and other energy-efficiency utility programs and policies.
On detail from LBNL, he served from 1990 to 1993 in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Building Technologies as senior assistant to the deputy assistant secretary for building technologies. He developed DOE buildings initiatives for the National Energy Strategy, Energy Policy Act of 1992, and Climate Change Action Plan and evaluated the energy-savings potential of proposed legislation and DOE initiatives. Harris organized and chaired the international Consortium for Energy-Efficient Office Equipment.
Before joining the LBNL staff in 1982, Harris worked at the California Energy Commission as the Conservation Division’s deputy division chief, with responsibility for policy development, program planning and evaluation, and utility and local government energy conservation programs.
Harris’s current policy and research interests, both domestic and international, include:
- Determining the public sector’s role in market leadership for energy efficiency;
- Mobilizing government purchasing power to advance energy-saving technologies and practices;
- Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions at negative costs per ton through energy conservation;
- Measuring and benchmarking the energy performance of buildings and equipment;
- Understanding how individual and organizational behavior affects energy consumption and energy-efficiency decisions; and
- Developing sustainable energy and resource strategies in land use and transportation.
Harris has an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford (1969) and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley (1973).
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