Angus Duncan

Angus Duncan is the founding President of the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a non-profit business venture that generates revenues from sales of renewable energy and carbon-offsetting Green Tags.  Since 1998, BEF and its partners have funded or participated in some $300 million in new renewable energy and watershed restoration projects in the Pacific Northwest.  BEF also develops its own wind, solar and other renewable energy generating projects.  Mr. Duncan represented three Oregon Governors on the four-state Northwest Power Planning Council from 1989 to 1995, including serving as Chair in 1995. Mr. Duncan has also worked in private sector renewable energy project development, and as Director of Energy Policy, US Department of Transportation. In 2004 Mr. Duncan chaired the Drafting Committee that wrote Oregon’s Climate Change Strategy. In 2006 he chaired the Governor’s Drafting Committee designing an Oregon load-based carbon emissions cap and trade mechanism.    In 2008, he was appointed by Governor Kulongoski to chair Oregon’s newly-mandated Global Warming Commission.