Russel Smith

Region: Hill Country

Topics: Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy

Mr. Smith is executive director and co-founder of the trade group, the Texas Renewable Energy Industry Association, which was spun off in the early 1990s from a related educational organization, the Texas Solar Energy Society, a group which he also helped start. Together, these two groups have been a rallying point, information clearinghouse and meeting forum for researchers, entrepreneurs, policy advocates, and users of renewable energy and high-efficiency energy sources. Mr. Smith and these organizations have helped distribute information, promote better policies, and expand investments in Texas for a variety of alternatives to, or ways to reduce use of fossil fuels, including active and passive solar technologies, wind, geothermal, biogas, etc.

Interviewed

April 9, 2002
Austin, Texas
Reel 2173 and 2174