David Stevenson
David T. Stevenson is the director of the Center for Energy Competitiveness at the Caesar Rodney Institute. He holds a B.S. in agricultural economics from Rutgers University, and is founder and president of One Call Services, Inc., a home remodeling company. In his twenty-three years at DuPont, Dave worked with both economic and technical issues including serving in technical service, business management and new business development. His areas of focus included pioneering work in the production of photovoltaic cells and wind turbines, and work on new battery designs. Dave has started four successful businesses since leaving DuPont and they are now run by family members. He helped start a mentoring program for entrepreneurs at the University of Delaware, is an "angel" investor with First State Innovations, and helps analyze new business opportunities. He was a founding member of Delaware's Green Building Council.
Delaware’s experiment with a Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has been a failure. The effort has had no significant impact on carbon dioxide emissions, has increased Delaware electricity rates, and the funds raised through the program were largely wasted. The program is being revised to increase electric ratepayer cost from…
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David StevensonMarch 29, 2013Read More
The US Energy Information Agency publishes an in-depth Annual Energy Review. Here are a few interesting findings: • The United States is poised to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest oil producer. Our oil imports have fallen 18% from their peak in 2005. The increase is from drilling on…
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David StevensonNovember 26, 2012Read More
Environmental groups want us to believe they have the moral high ground as they were for cleaner air and water, and been able to get away with that simply by claiming those who opposed them support pollution. It is no longer that simple. By wedding themselves to a few expensive,…
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David StevensonOctober 16, 2012Read More