Daniel Coffey is a 22-year attorney with a chemical engineering undergraduate degree from University of California, Davis. A former appointee to the San Diego Park and Recreation Board, Mr. Coffey follows San Diego politics closely as an active member of the community.
For two days, beginning June 30, 2010, the inaugural "Charged 2020 The Global Energy Storage Forum" was held at the University of San Diego. The forum was focused on how to effectuate necessary energy storage on the electrical grid and to develop businesses around that and related concepts.
Jeffrey Skilling, an utter scoundrel of Enron infamy, has through his legal challenges, inadvertently emerged as a legal mechanism to shed light upon the fate of innocent San Diegans.
The accented white cover of "Smart Energy: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities" belies the thicket of provocative ideas inside. This must-read, 326-page book on energy policy authored by highly accomplished engineer and economist Dr. Peter Fox-Penner is a wake-up call.
