California Center for Sustainable Energy

Andrew McAllister serves as the director of programs at the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE). With over 17 years of experience in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energy, Andrew brings technical, programmatic and energy policy expertise to the organization. Andrew is responsible for guiding and overseeing CCSE's distributed generation programs including the California Solar Initiative, Self-Generation Incentive Program, and Solar Water Heating programs. He also plays a central role in guiding CCSE's efforts in the policy and regulatory arenas. Andrew assists the Executive Director in strategic planning and new initiative development, and supervises and supports programs and staff in pursuit of the CCSE mission.

Andrew worked for a decade with NRECA International Ltd. in the electric sectors of countries in Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa on projects ranging from utility planning, load management, monitoring and data analysis to remote power system design and installation, with a focus on solar and wind-hybrid technologies. His clients and counterparts included electric utilities (both investor-owned and cooperatives), host country regional and municipal governments, national regulatory agencies, the World Bank, NREL, USAID, and a number of international non-governmental organizations. He was a project manager at Energy Solutions, an Oakland-based consulting firm, where he managed a commercial sector efficient lighting incentive program. Andrew has also worked as an energy efficiency analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has published on various energy topics in academic, trade, and popular journals.

Andrew studied both Engineering Sciences and Art History at Dartmouth College and holds the M.S. from the Energy & Resources Group at UC-Berkeley, where he is also a doctoral candidate. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, and has native-level fluency in Spanish.