{"id":363958,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=363958"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:59","slug":"david-hochschild","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/david-hochschild\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal clean energy efforts are too weak. David Hochschild has a state blueprint for solar."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"g50-profile__stats-block profile__stats-block--profile-363958 \">California Energy Commissioner<br \/>\nSacramento, California<br \/>\nAge: 45<\/aside>\n<p>Today, California has 100,000 solar jobs, by far the most of any state. You can credit David Hochschild for some of that. In 2001, Hochschild cofounded the advocacy group Vote Solar with Adam Browning, who previously ran a pollution prevention program at the Environmental Protection Agency. The duo built out the program\u2019s finely tuned combination of policy advising, public engagement, and coalition-building.<\/p>\n<p>Vote Solar is now 60,000 members strong, operates in 25 states, and has helped spur initiatives like California\u2019s 3,000-megawatt Go Solar California program &#8212; enough capacity to power roughly 650,000 homes.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote share=&#8221;true&#8221; tweet=&#8221;\u201cMost of the policy that matters is made at the state level.\u201d&#8221; hashtag=&#8221;Grist50&#8243; ]\u201cMost of the policy that matters is made at the state level. If your main plan for change involves Congress, it\u2019s a bad plan.\u201d[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>Hochschild is now a commissioner for the California Energy Commission, the state\u2019s main energy policy and planning agency. He and his team have funded early-stage biofuel projects, crafted emergency policy responses to California\u2019s drought, and released energy standards for next-gen light bulbs. Hochschild embraces the idea that more and more states will look to California as a leader in clean energy. \u201cYou can\u2019t stop rooftop solar now,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This policy wonk shows state leadership on solar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57007830,"featured_media":490265,"menu_order":34,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-363958","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-energy","grist-50-13"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federal clean energy efforts are too weak. 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