Renewables Advisory Panel

Organization: Bonneville Environmental Foundation

Angus Duncan, President of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) has directed the BEF since its founding in 1998 as an organization aimed at supporting watershed restoration programs and developing new sources of renewable energy. From the beginning, BEF has been a groundbreaking group, obtaining funding for those objectives by marketing green power products to public utilities, businesses, government agencies and individuals.

Duncan's service on behalf of wind and environmental values in the Pacific Northwest spans well over a decade, and includes a stint in the early 1980's when he represented former wind turbine manufacturer/developer FloWind Corp. on the AWEA board of directors and as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill.

Currently, as President of the Portland, Ore.-based BEF, Duncan is helping to pioneer the development and marketing of "green tags" which will allow utility customers located anywhere in the U.S. to purchase renewable energy.

Angus was one of Oregon's two representatives on the Northwest Power Planning Council, of which Duncan served as Chair in 1994-95. As Power Council Chair, he secured passage of the Council's far-reaching and controversial regional plan for recovering endangered salmon runs and restoring the health of the Columbia Basin watershed.

He also drafted the plan's collaborative watershed strategy that builds on locally-based watershed councils, a strategy that derived from four years of work with the Grande Ronde Model Watershed in Northeast Oregon.