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Margie Gardner Vice President, Strategic Advisor

Margie Gardner

Vice President, Strategic Advisor

Margie Gardner has dedicated her 40-year career to transformational leaps in energy efficiency and clean energy resources. She is currently the Vice President of Market Transformation at Resource Innovations, leading the launch of CalMTA, California’s first-ever Market Transformation Administrator, which will help achieve the state’s goals with lasting efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions. Her experience spans the founding of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance in 1997 as its first executive director, as well as heading the Bonneville Environmental Foundation and California Efficiency and Demand Management Council (CEDMC). In 2024, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy officially recognized her impact on the industry by awarding her a Champion of Energy Efficiency in Buildings Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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The California Market Transformation Administrator (CalMTA) develops and manages market transformation initiatives in the state to reduce energy use and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

CalMTA seeks to help meet California’s energy efficiency and decarbonization goals by accelerating adoption of energy-efficient products and practices through market transformation. Market transformation is a proven strategic process of intervening in a market to create lasting change.
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CalMTA follows a rigorous process for reviewing, scoring, and then developing relevant, timely market transformation initiatives. The process supports market transformation initiative creation from concept to program development to market deployment, as well as the eventual exiting of the market.

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CPUC Approves First-Ever Statewide Market Transformation Initiatives to Advance Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization

The Market Transformation Advisory Board (MTAB) provides expertise and unbiased, non-binding recommendations on CalMTA’s market transformation initiatives. Register here for an upcoming advisory board meeting.

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Learn more about CalMTA’s planning and research on energy efficient technologies and our work to build California’s market transformation portfolio, and access quarterly and annual progress reports.

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Commercial Rooftop Units Draft MTI Plan

Commercial Buildings Efficiency Accelerator Fact Sheet

Residential Heat Pump Water Heating Market Characterization Report

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