Gregory Morris

Dr. Gregory Morris has more than two decades of diversified experience and accomplishments in the energy and environmental fields. He is an expert in biomass and renewable energy systems, climate change and greenhouse gas emissions analysis, integrated resources planning, analysis of the environmental impacts of resource management practices, electric power generation, the environmental impacts of energy production and use, and probabilistic risk analysis.

Dr. Morris works for private-sector and public-sector clients on the development and analysis of renewable energy policy; integrated resources planning; integrated market and financial analysis to support the commercialization of new energy and environmental technologies; and technical, environmental, and financial risk assessment. He also provides consulting services in the areas of optimization modeling and environmental-economic cost-benefit analysis. Dr. Morris has a BS degree in Natural Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1974); an MS degree in Biochemistry from the University of Toronto (1977); and a PhD degree in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley (1982).

Dr. Morris has made major contributions to the understanding of the environment costs and benefits of energy generation from biomass and has published several widely cited reports on the subject. He created and maintains a comprehensive historical database on the use of solid-fuel biomass for the production of electricity in California. He served on the Western Governor’s Association’s Biomass Task Force to the Clean and Diversified Energy Advisory Committee and serves on the boards of the California Biomass Collaborative and the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System (WREGIS).

Dr. Morris has been actively involved in electric utility restructuring in California and across the U.S. He served as editor and facilitator for the Renewables Working Group to the California Public Utilities Commission, consultant to the CEC renewables program committee, consultant to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Development during the 2000-2001 energy crisis, and has provided expert testimony in a variety of regulatory and legislative proceedings, as well as civil litigation. As director of the Green Power Institute, he has made major contributions to the development of California’s renewable portfolio standards program and is actively involved in the implementation of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32).