Senior Energy & Policy Advisor
Topic: Access to clean affordable energy is an opportunity to engage more directly with our communities.
Ashish Kapoor is the Senior Energy & Climate Advisor at Piedmont Environmental Council, where he works on clean energy policy issues at the local and state level. He is currently developing an innovative agrivoltaics project in Virginia, which combines crop farming, solar energy production and battery backup.
Ashish grew up in western Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University’s Schreyer Honors College with a Bachelor’s in Economics and Political Science and subsequently received a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.
During and after law school, Ashish worked as a public interest attorney on a variety of issues, including environmental and social justice in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, he worked as a national solar consultant at Sunrun, the nation’s largest residential solar company.