Credit NYSERDA
The Board of Directors at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority or NYSERDA has appointed its acting CEO to the role on a permanent basis. Doreen Harris – who has spent more than a decade with NYSERDA – has been leading the agency since June 2020 following the departure of Alicia Barton.
Harris is also co-chair of the New York State Climate Action Council, tasked with meeting the goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.
Harris spoke with WAMC’s Jim Levulis.
Harris: It was a real honor and a privilege to be appointed president and CEO of NYSERDA. You know, I firmly believe that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future than climate change. And no institution is better poised to meet that challenge head on than NYSERDA. And as you mentioned, I am a veteran of NYSERDA. I am now the first president of NYSERDA in fact, who has previously held staff roles across the Authority. And certainly during that time, and now specifically, in the past 10 months or so as acting president and CEO, I have come to know and directly experience the true value and globally significant impact that NYSERDA has had and will have into the future.