David T. Stevenson is the director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy at the Caesar Rodney Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Delaware.
Dave has published over 150 analytic studies including major studies on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the EPA Clean Power Plan, electric grid reliability, the public policy drivers of energy cost, offshore wind, electric vehicles, carbon capture, nuclear energy, and climate change. He regularly appears in newspapers, radio, and TV, and is a frequent background resource to journalists. Dave has been a leader on energy and environmental policy in the State Policy Network. He served on President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency Transition Team, and has become a resource for national energy and environmental issues.
Dave has developed a tool box of strategies to apply in different situations to affect change including; legislative lobbying, participation in various energy task forces and advisory councils, intervention in Public Service Commission (PSC) cases, the formation of multistate coalitions, and lawsuits. He has built credibility to the point he is regularly consulted by legislators, regulators, the PSC staff, public utilities, and has served as a consultant for the Public Advocate, and others in Delaware, and has consulted in 27 states, and federal agencies.
Dave is a veteran executive of the Dupont Company where he led seven successful business expansions and start ups including pioneering work on solar photovoltaic panels and on fire resistant materials for aircraft interiors. He holds a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from Rutgers University. After leaving DuPont Dave started five successful businesses now run by family members. Dave founded “Save the Persecuted”, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the persecution of religious minorities, and currently serves as relocation chair for a growing church.
Dave is persistent as evidenced by his activities. He has run a marathon, bicycled solo across the United States, climbed Mt. Rainier, hiked the mountainous Inca Trail in Peru, and races bicycles. Dave’s favorite time is spent with his seven children, twenty grand-children, and wife Kimberly.