All-Electric Leadership Awards 2020-2021 Selection Committee
Peninsula Clean Energy is honored to bring together this selection committee of outstanding building design and electrification experts. The committee members will review each awards submission based on demonstration of leadership, innovation, building energy impact and quality of the application. Submissions will have multiple reviewers to score each application, and these scores will be discussed among the selection committee members.
Learn more about the All-Electric Leadership Awards here.
Jeff Aalfs
Building Energy Consultant, ArcturusHD
Jeff Aalfs works as a Building Energy and Green Building Consultant, helping architects and builders meet the requirements of the Building Code, as well as exploring strategies to improve the energy efficiency, sustainability and health of building projects.
Jeff is a Council Member representing the Town of Portola Valley, and has been a Board Member for Peninsula Clean Energy since its inception in 2016, serving as Vice Chairman of the Board for two years, and Board Chair since March of 2018. He lives in Portola Valley with his wife and two children.
Ida Clair
Acting State Architect, State of California
Ida Clair is the acting State Architect for the State of California. She concurrently serves as Principal Architect for the Division of the State Architect, where she manages the accessibility, sustainability, and fire & life safety programs for public K-12 schools and community colleges, directs CALGreen and Access Code regulatory development, and administers the Certified Access Specialist (CASp) Program.
Prior to that, she served as the CASp Program’s first technical administrator where she established the program’s professional practice standards and provides examination and training development.
Ida has twenty-six years’ experience in private architectural practice where she specialized in affordable and sustainable multifamily residential facilities, and provided accessibility compliance surveys and third-party plan reviews. As a certified access specialist, Ida was instrumental in the creation of the Certified Access Specialist Institute in 2010.
Clair has a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California and is a registered architect.
David Kaneda
Thought Leader, IDeAs Consulting
For over three decades, David Kaneda has collaborated on electrical system designs for many of the greenest buildings in the US. He is an internationally recognized expert on designing sustainable electrical systems, including power distribution, lighting and daylighting, renewable energy, microgrids and EV charging. He has collaborated on the electrical design of over 40 – net zero energy buildings, including the IDeAs Z Squared Design Facility in 2005; the first net zero energy commercial office building in the United States.
He has also led the electrical designs for dozens of LEED Platinum and AIA COTE Top 10 projects, including ground breaking projects such as the Packard Foundation, 435 Indio Way, the Venter Institute and the Sonoma Academy Janet Durgin Guild and Commons.
David believes that our industry needs to transition rapidly to building high performance, all electric, green buildings. He has shared his expertise on the subject over 100 times at national and international conferences and has been invited to lecture at 10 universities and colleges and published several white papers on sustainable electrical system design.
David serves nationally on the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Green Building Advisory Committee. In 2014, he co-chaired their Net Zero Energy Task Group and currently co-chairs the Energy Storage Task Group. He also serves on the GSA National Register of Peer Professionals and AIA California’s Committee on the Environment and is a Professional Engineer, a Fellow in the AIA and a LEED Fellow.
Vincent Martinez
Chief Operating Officer, Architecture 2030
Through his 14-year tenure at Architecture 2030, Vincent Martinez has been working to solve the climate crisis by catalyzing global building decarbonization efforts through the development and activation of robust networks focused on private sector commitments, education, training, and public policies.
He has also led the electrical designs for dozens of LEED Platinum and AIA COTE Top 10 projects, including ground breaking projects such as the Packard Foundation, 435 Indio Way, the Venter Institute and the Sonoma Academy Janet Durgin Guild and Commons.
David believes that our industry needs to transition rapidly to building high performance, all electric, green buildings. He has shared his expertise on the subject over 100 times at national and international conferences and has been invited to lecture at 10 universities and colleges and published several white papers on sustainable electrical system design.
David serves nationally on the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Green Building Advisory Committee. In 2014, he co-chaired their Net Zero Energy Task Group and currently co-chairs the Energy Storage Task Group. He also serves on the GSA National Register of Peer Professionals and AIA California’s Committee on the Environment and is a Professional Engineer, a Fellow in the AIA and a LEED Fellow.
Lisa Schmidt
President and CEO, Home Energy Analytics
Lisa and her husband, Steve founded Home Energy Analytics (HEA) in 2010 to help residents reduce their energy consumption via smart meter analytics. HEA manages a residential energy reduction program, HomeIntel, for PG&E and has helped over 15,000 families save energy and money.
Lisa received a BSEE from UT Austin and moved to Silicon Valley in 1982 when the main industry was still designing and manufacturing integrated circuits. She worked on software used in IC design at a variety of companies, primarily startups. She and Steve became increasingly worried about the devastating effects of climate change and turned their startup talents to HEA. Lisa has spent the last 10 years working with local communities, state regulators and IOUs to promote smart meter analytics as the most advanced and cost-effective to reduce household energy consumption.