Dan Adler

Dan Adler is president of the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF), an evergreen, nonprofit fund of funds created to accelerate investment in California’s clean energy economy. In its venture capital portfolio CalCEF is invested in more than 40 young companies covering the full range of clean energy technologies, and is developing new project finance platforms to take those and other innovations to scale. Prior to joining CalCEF, Adler was a senior analyst in the Division of Strategic Planning at the California Public Utilities Commission, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of California's Renewables Portfolio Standard and was senior staff for climate change policy. He is the Co-Chairman of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and an advisor to the state of California and city of San Francisco on clean energy technologies.