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Dr. Stahlkopf is President of Renewable Hawaii, Inc., and Senior VP, Energy Solutions and Chief Technology Officer of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HECO). He is responsible for formulating and executing HECO’s short and long-term energy technology strategies and development and implementation of conservation, demand side management, renewable and alternative energy projects. In addition, he has responsibility for all customer service installations.

Prior to joining HECO, he was VP of Power Delivery & Utilization at EPRI in Palo Alto, CA. He had overall responsibility for the direction of the $100 million R&D program in the transmission, distribution and end use of electricity. Many of his assignments involved initiating and working with the international utility consortia as well as government and private partnerships. Earlier in his career Stahlkopf was a research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and a technical consultant on nuclear submarine propulsion on the staff of U.S. Chief of Naval Operations.

Karl received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Naval Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an MS and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

He currently serves on the Board of Hoku Scientific, a NASDAQ listed alternative energy company, the Board of the Hawaii Science and Technology Council, the Board of the Honolulu Navy League and the Dean’s Council of the College of Engineering of the University of Hawaii. He was the founder and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sure-Tech, a Limited Liability Corporation, making power electronic devices and jointly owned by EPRI and Siemens; and was founder and first President and CEO of EPRIsolutions, the technical consulting and services subsidiary of EPRI. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Power Electronics Application Center and EPRIww, the international subsidiary of EPRI. Stahlkopf was instrumental in the founding of Micromonitors, a start-up company making high technology predictive maintenance sensors for the electric power industry and served on their first Board of directors.

Karl is the author of six technical books and over 90 peer review papers and holds three patents on the application of lasers to high speed communication and three patents on an interface device between wind farms and the electrical transmission grid. He has served on the editorial board of Electric Light and Power, been elected as a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). He has served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Task Force on Electric Reliability. Stahlkopf has been honored with the University of Wisconsin Distinguished Alumni Award, the McGraw Hill ERN Newsmaker Award, the PacificNews.net Top High Tech Leaders Award, and the EPRI Chauncey Award for Technology Leadership.

He and his wife Carole live in Honolulu and have two children.