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Susie has worked for the last 26 years at Southern California Edison both in Engineering and in Planning.  Before that, she worked for 6.5 years as a Planner at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.  She has her Master of Engineering degree in Electric Power Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Upstate New York and is a Professional Engineer in the State of California.  She is currently a Planning Advisor in the Santa Monica District Local Planning office.

Chad is a Supervisor with the PG&E Express Connections team, part of the Service Planning & Design division. He has been with the company for four and a half years.

As the Managing Principal of Redwood Energy, he and led the design of more than 400 apartment complexes and subdivisions, including one in four of the all-electric, 100% solar powered residences built in North America between 2010 and 2020; has co-authored six practical guides to building electrification, and received Grand Prize design awards from the United Nations and the California Building Industry Association.

Tom Kabat is a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in utility program design, implementation, hands-on building science and utility resource planning.  Tom partners with others in electrification design projects for dozens of homes, co-authoring guides to electrification, developing a “Watt Diet” technique and practice for making electrifying buildings easier without upsizing the electric panel.  He serves on the board of SunWork.org where he helps install heat pump water heaters and solar PV.

Larry Walters is a 40-year veteran of the HVAC industry, spending his first ten years in Industrial and Commercial systems. Since then, a 30-year Focus on residential heating and air as a service technician and sales professional. Larry has sold over 20 million residential HVAC units, including gas furnaces. In 2011, he began concentrating on high-performance methodologies as a BPI certified building analyst. In 2014, he shifted focus again to high-efficiency heat pump installation to replace gas, designing and implementing, installation of 400+ electrification projects in the greater Bay area of California. Larry started his all-electric gas conversion company Electrify My Home (EMH) in 2019, EMH offers a unique approach to electrification they have dubbed, “Good Electrification” that considers the entire path of electrification for each homeowner planning for full electric conversion and employs the “Install Small” house as a system right sizing ideology.  Larry’s extensive experience has made him a noted authority within the energy programs of the State of California. EMH has been contracted through Tech Clean Ca a state program to provide training to other contractors in an effort to speed up the adoption of electrification in California.

Laura Feinstein is the Sustainability and Resilience Policy director at SPUR, the Bay Area public policy think tank. Laura leads SPUR’s work on climate mitigation, adaptation, and environmental justice. Previously she worked as a senior researcher at the Pacific Institute, a research scientist and project manager at California Council on Science and Technology, and as a fellow with the California Senate Committee on Environmental Quality. She holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in anthropology and a Ph.D. from U.C. Davis in ecology.

Brennan Less is a residential buildings researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and he is a national expert on the challenges of existing home decarbonization and home electrical infrastructure. He recently led the development of nearly 20 public inputs to the 2026 NEC, and he serves as a voting member of Task Group Two in the NFPA process to update the 2026 National Electrical Code. He is a technical contributor to the DOE’s EAS-E prize for home electrification.

Travis Holtby is the lead for fuel substitution in the CPUC's energy efficiency branch, where he has worked for the last three and a half years. He also led the 2023 EE Potential and Goals Study, which sets the mandatory EE goals for California's IOUs. Travis completed his master's in international environmental policy and applied statistics at UCSD.