Dana Hall

ERN (2017)

Deputy Director

Low Impact Hydropower Institute

Harrington Park, New Jersey

Dana Hall has worked professionally in the clean energy sector since 2008 as an attorney, policy expert and educator.  She is currently transitioning.

 

Dana was employed as the Director of Operations at the Low Impact Hydropower (LIHI) through July 1, 2017, a public benefit corporation organized in California that certifies low impact hydropower and informs renewable markets about the environmental qualifications of hydropower. Prior to January 2017 she was the Deputy Director of LIHI since 2013 and served as Governing Board Secretary from 2009 to 2014. As Director of Operations at LIHI, Ms. Hall manages fiscal and administrative operations, and regularly observes and analyzes renewable market pricing trends affecting hydropower. 

 

Ms. Hall’s professional experience includes establishing her own boutique energy law practice, policy consulting work and teaching. Her energy career began as energy policy coordinator at the Pace Energy and Climate Center in New York, where she contributed to research and policy initiatives in both renewable energy and energy efficiency.  Ms. Hall also worked as an independent consultant, contributing to the energy chapter of the 2011 update of PlaNYC, and in 2016 as an expert witness in an arbitration proceeding pertaining to renewable energy market value.

 

In 2011 Ms. Hall founded Dana Hall, Attorney at Law, a boutique firm providing policy and strategy services for a variety of clean energy clients including solar energy project development and energy efficiency retrofits.  Ms. Hall also taught clean energy policy courses at the Cooper Union School of Continuing Education, Green Building Design Program from 2010 to 2014.  In 2013 and 2014 Ms. Hall worked as in-house counsel at Bright Power, a New York City based firm offering solutions for the building sector in energy efficiency, procurement, on-site generation and resiliency.

 

Ms. Hall has a J.D. from Pace University School of Law (2008), a Master of Arts in Environmental Conservation Education from New York University (2000), and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from The Ohio State University. 

 

Dana also manages jazz musicians, was recently a partner in an independent, artist-owned jazz record label, volunteers at her synagogue where she enjoys producing and presenting live concerts, and enjoys time with her two teenage sons, Nathan and Charlie and her fiancé, vibraphonist Bill Ware.