Biography
Bernadette Del Chiaro is the executive director of the California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA). For the past ten years, she has built the organization into one of the largest clean energy business groups in the United States with over 750 members and a growing staff working every day to defend and open up the pathways to growth for solar and storage. Ms. Del Chiaro has been advocating for clean energy, and in particular distributed energy resources, for over 25 years and has been a leading voice on many successful initiatives including the Million Solar Roofs Initiative from 2006 which jumpstarted California’s burgeoning distributed energy marketplace.