Eileen V. Quigley is the Founding Executive Director of the Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI), which works to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest and has led CETI’s programs and service contract work since 2018.
This oversight includes CETI’s Deep Decarbonization Pathways analyses and Building Decarbonization, Industrial Decarbonization, and Rural Decarbonization programs. She conceived and executed the Net-Zero Northwest project, the nation’s first regional energy pathway’s analysis with associated health and workforce implications. She led the teams that produced the Washington 2021 State Energy Strategy; the Oregon Clean Energy Pathways analysis; and the Washington Green Electrolytic Hydrogen Report, and she is currently leading the team that is working with the Oregon Department of Energy to produce Oregon’s Energy Strategy.
Eileen has researched and written extensively about a wide range of decarbonization solutions since 2009, publishing numerous papers, reports, and blogs, and she speaks regularly about decarbonization solutions throughout the Northwest. She is dedicated to examining the equity implications of transitioning to the clean energy economy in the research and analysis that she oversees and performs at CETI.
Prior to founding CETI, Eileen spent seven years as Director of Strategic Innovation at Climate Solutions, where she oversaw programs that identified transition pathways off fossil fuels to a low-carbon future in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon and advanced clean energy solutions in cities and rural areas, as well as in aviation, carbon sequestration, and cleaning the electricity grid.
A seasoned manager of for-profit and nonprofit businesses, Eileen served as Executive Director of three nonprofit organizations for a combined 12 years and ran RealNetworks’ Nonprofit Affairs Division for seven years, helping nonprofit organizations use the internet for social change. She spent six years as a magazine and newspaper journalist in Washington, DC, and New York, NY, covering business and national politics, and three years editing a quarterly journal of public policy, economics, and culture for the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada.
She currently serves on the boards of Stockholm Environment Institute-US; Renewable Northwest; Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance; and the Washington Green Bank. She is also one of four Public Interest Organization representatives on the Western Transmission Expansion Coalition (WestTEC) Regional Engagement Committee.