Dr. Chuck Kutscher is a principal engineer and manager of the Thermal Systems Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, where he has worked for 28 years. He has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines and was unit scientist of the Solar Energy Unit for the National Geographic Society’s Kids Network. He was presented with the 2006 Charles Greeley Abbot Award for “outstanding contributions in the research and development of active solar systems and solar thermal technologies.” Dr. Kutscher was general chair of the SOLAR 2006 National Solar Energy Conference, which brought the nation’s top climate scientists and renewable energy experts together to develop solutions to global warming. He is editor of a new 200-page American Solar Energy Society report, "Tackling Climate Change in the U.S."