Dan Delurey

Senior Fellow for Climate & Energy, Vermont Law School

Dan Delurey is a Senior Fellow for Climate and Energy at Vermont Law School. He previously held Executive positions at an electric utility, a cleantech start-up, and a Non-Profit Association that he founded which was focused on grid modernization, smart technologies, time-based pricing, and distributed energy. He conceived and crafted the first federal legislation in those areas, including language that was cited in a Supreme Court case upholding FERC's jurisdiction over demand response.

Dan created and heads up the first UN-approved Delegation to the COP Series of Events comprised entirely of companies providing smart products and services that will modernize the electricity grid. He has led delegations and served as a speaker at COP-15 in Copenhagen through the recent COP-26 in Glasgow, and was Master of Ceremonies at the US Action Center at COP-23.

Dan has testified before Congress and Federal and State Commissions and is a frequent speaker before National, State and Local audiences. He created the National Town Meeting series of opinion leader events focused on how to how to inject smart technologies into the electricity industry to enable new practices and new choices for customers. Two of those events were produced in collaboration with the White House and specifically focused on the need for a smart grid to enable actions that would address climate change. He is currently the Climate Change expert for an on-air Listener Call-In Program on an NPR Affiliate Station and in his spare time is writing climate-themed Children's books.