Diane
DeVaul is the Institute's director of policy and a specialist
on energy issues and the regional effects of federal spending.
Dr. DeVaul has coordinated the Institute's industrial energy
efficiency efforts and is Director of the Northeast Regional
Resource Center for Innovation, one five U.S. Department of
Energy Regional Resource Centers. Her publications include
Implementing Industrial Energy Efficiency, "Crane
Washington: A Model for Metal Casting" in The 1999 ACEEE
Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry, and "The
Energy, Environment, and Manufacturing Technology Access Strategy
for Small and Mid-Sized Metal Fabricators" in ACEEE
1995 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry: Partnerships,
Productivity and the Environment. She was a coauthor of
Toolbook for Financing Energy Efficiency and Pollution
Prevention Technologies, Utilities and Manufacturing: Pioneering
Partnerships and Their Lessons for the 21st Century,, and
Utilities and Industries. She has had articles published
in Public Utilities Fortnightly and Issues in Science
and Technology, the magazine of the National Academy of
Sciences. She has served on the U.S. Department of Energy’s
review panel to select national industrial energy efficiency
award winners.
DeVaul
was selected to be a member of the North American Working
Group that met at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School
of Government to define U.S. policy issues involved in expanding
imports of Canadian electricity. She also gave a presentation
on those policy issues at the Trinational Energy Policy Workshop
at Stanford University and at the International Association
of Energy Economists’ Annual North American Meeting.
Moreover, she delivered a paper, "Post-War Energy Economics:
The Urban and Regional Implications," at the Johns Hopkins
University symposium.
Previously,
she served as a consultant to the Department of Housing and
Urban Development's Office of Community Planning and Development,
providing program recommendations for two urban initiatives
to the Assistant Secretary.
DeVaul’s
doctoral dissertation received the Carl Boyd award for distinguished
dissertations from the University of Maryland. She has taught
at the University of Maryland, George Mason University, and
American University.
