Nancy Rader

Nancy Rader has represented the California Wind Energy Association (CalWEA) since its inception in 2000, serving as Executive Director since 2002. CalWEA is a non-profit wind energy industry trade association representing the interests of its members in various proceedings before California regulatory agencies and the California Independent System Operator. At CalWEA, she has been engaged in the advocacy, development and implementation of most of the policies related to the growth of renewable energy in California, and has authored several articles on the state’s policies.

From 1994 to 1998, Rader served as Policy Advisor to and West Coast Representative for the American Wind Energy Association, and was honored as AWEA’s “Wind Industry Person of the Year” in 1996 for pioneering the concept of the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy. From 1999 – 2001, Rader served as a policy analyst at the Law Offices of Scott Hempling, where she specialized in the design of Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) policies, programs supported by Public Goods Charges, fuel-source disclosure policies, including methods of tracking fuel-source information, transmission system rules that accommodate intermittent renewable resources, and community aggregation programs.

Rader received a B.A. in Political Science/Public Service from the University of California at Davis. She received an M.A. degree in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley.