Edward Vine
Ed Vine is an Affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he has been involved in the evaluation of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, policies and technology performance measurement for over 40 years. Dr. Vine contributed to the development of the California Public Utilities Commission’s Energy Efficiency Evaluation Protocols, the US Department of Energy’s Impact Evaluation Framework for Technology Deployment Programs, and the National Action Plan on Energy Efficiency’s Evaluation, Measurement and Verification Guidelines. He served on the Board and the Planning Committee of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC), and was on the Planning Committee of the International Energy Policy and Program Evaluation Conference (IEPPEC). He was one of the founding members of Energy Evaluation Europe, and since 2015, he has been helping create a community of energy evaluators in the Asia Pacific Region, including serving on the Steering Committee of Energy Evaluation Asia Pacific (EEAP) which he helped establish.
In 2007, as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on evaluation and climate change.
Dr. Vine has a BS in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College, and a MS and Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California at Davis.
Education
Awards
2007 Nobel Peace Prize - October 30th 2007
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were important contributors to the research on global climate change that has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
The 2007 Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and to former Vice President Al Gore, Jr., "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
William Collins and Inez Fung of the Earth Sciences Division (ESD), and Mark Levine, Surabi Menon, Evan Mills, Lynn Price, Jayant Sathaye, and Ernst Worrell of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) are among current members of Berkeley Lab who were leading authors of this year's IPCC working group reports.
Outstanding Achievement in Marketing Research and Evaluation - February 21st 2007
For developing the California Energy Program Evaluation Framework and the California Energy Efficiency Program Evaluation Protocols. The Association of Energy Services Professionals.
International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol - January 6th 2004
Certificate of appreciation for "valuable contributions to the development of the International Performance and Verification Protocol".
The International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC) - July 14th 2003
Lifetime Achievement Award