Operating Company Management

Paul Fenn
CEO/Founder — Local Power Inc.

Chairman and CEO of Local Power Inc. based in San Francisco, Paul Fenn has developed a matrix of market structures, financial tools and risk management strategies to make possible an exponential scaling up and accelerated development of renewable energy and demand-side energy technologies. Fenn authored California's 2002 Community Choice law, Assembly Bill 117, after co-authoring the nation's original such law in Massachusetts in 1994 and going on to draft San Francisco's 2001 H Bond authority — a municipal revenue bond authority to finance renewable energy development. Shifting to implementation of these authorities, Fenn wrote San Francisco's Energy Independence Ordinance in 2004, which combined Community Choice power procurement with H Bond financing to provide competitive energy supply and build 360 Megawatts of solar, wind, efficiency and conservation technologies into the community's energy portfolio. Most recently, Mr. Fenn was primary author of San Francisco's Community Choice Draft Implementation Plan and H Bond Program, which established a framework and process to negotiate with potential energy suppliers to make the City's residents and businesses 51% green powered by 2017. Mr. Fenn holds a Master's Degree from the University of Chicago, has taught undergraduate and graduate engineering students at San Francisco State University, and has lectured on energy policy and economics at UC Berkeley, Sonoma State and other universities, and shared the stage as a featured speaker with Ross Gelbspan, Attorney General Bill Lockyer, Robert Kennedy Jr., Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Senator Carole Migden, Supervisor Tom Ammiano, Loretta Lynch, Dr. Eugene Coyle, and other major political and thought leaders. Fenn is 42 years old, married with two children.