Speakers

Scott Murtishaw is the Executive Director of the California Energy Storage Alliance, which has advocated for the energy storage industry since 2009. Before joining CESA, he was a policy advisor at the Independent Energy Producers Association and the California Solar & Storage Association. He served as energy policy advisor to the President of the CPUC, where he played a key role in shaping the CPUC’s rate design, distributed energy resources, and climate policies.  Earlier in his career, Scott authored studies on a wide variety of energy efficiency and climate policy topics as a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and served as a visiting researcher at the International Energy Agency. He holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University and a Masters in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.