3rd Annual Flex Your Power Awards
Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
When appointed to the California Energy Commission in 2000, Arthur Rosenfeld had already established an impressive record as a leading proponent of energy efficiency. In 1954, Rosenfeld received his Ph.D. in Physics and joined the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he went on to lead the Nobel Prize-winning particle physics group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). In 1974, Rosenfeld formed the Center for Building Science at LBNL to improve energy end-use efficiency. The Center, led by Rosenfeld until 1994, developed a variety of innovative energy-efficient products and programs, including the DOE-2 computer program for the design and energy analysis of buildings. His groundbreaking work earned him the Carnot Award for Energy Efficiency from the U.S. Department of Energy in 1993. He helped to develop utility "collaboratives" changing profit rules to favor investment in customer energy efficiency. He is the co-founder of the American Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy, the University of California's Institute for Energy Efficiency and the Washington-based Center for Energy and Climate Solutions. His work to promote, design and implement energy-saving strategies has resulted in significant gains in the study and practice of energy efficiency.