Experts
Cliff Chen
Energy AnalystExpertise
Clean Energy-PolicyProfile
As an energy analyst for UCS's Clean Energy Program, Mr. Chen provides technical and policy analysis to advance effective renewable energy and climate change policies at regulatory and legislative agencies in California. He actively contributes to UCS's ongoing participation in California regulatory proceedings to ensure successful implementation of the state's renewable electricity standard and to advocate effective electricity sector climate change policies in accordance with the state's landmark global warming bill.
Prior to coming to UCS, Mr. Chen was a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research focused on the economic and environmental implications of renewable energy incentive policies. He was also a consultant at Synapse Energy Economics, where he modeled the impacts of various clean energy policies for the federal Environmental Protection Agency, state regulatory commissions and environmental organizations. He has written numerous reports on clean energy policies, including several economic analyses of state renewables electricity standards.
Mr. Chen has a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley in energy and resources and a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in earth systems with an emphasis on energy science and technology.
