Beth Vaughan

Executive Director
California Cogeneration Council

Beth Vaughan was appointed Executive Director of the California Cogeneration Council (CCC) in June 2007. 

The CCC is an ad hoc association of natural gas-fired cogenerators located throughout California, in the service territories of all three of California's major investor-owned electric utilities. CCC members operate more than 30 different cogeneration projects in California, generating about 1,300 megawatts (MWs), representing a significant share of the distributed combined heat and power (CHP) projects now operating in California.

Ms. Vaughan has over 20 years of experience in public policy, strategic planning, project management, public relations and information technology. During the past 10 years in California, she has consulted with government agencies, non-profits, and private sector

interests, on energy and environmental public policy issues.  Ms. Vaughan is Policy Development Manager for the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy (CFEE)-a nonprofit coalition of business, labor, and environmental interests who convene forums with legislative and regulatory leaders to address complex economic and environment issues. 

Ms. Vaughan has extensive international experience and from 1991 through 1996 served as Senior Advisor to the New Zealand Environment and Conservation Cabinet Ministers. In 1992 she participated in the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil as a member of the New Zealand delegation, and in 2002 participated in the United Nation's World Summit preparatory meetings on behalf of the Resource Renewal Institute, a San Francisco based non-profit.

Ms. Vaughan received a M.Sc. in Geography from Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand, and a B.Sc. (Honors) from Queen's University in Canada.