Charlie Heaps

Senior Scientist and Center Director

charlie.heaps@sei-us.org

Charlie is the Director of SEI's U.S. Center and a senior scientist in SEI's Climate and Energy Program.

Charlie is the developer of LEAP: the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System developed at SEI, a leading energy and environmental planning tool used in hundreds of organizations and dozens of countries worldwide . For the last 15 years, Charlie has worked around the world conducting workshops, undertaking energy studies and providing training and assistance to users of LEAP.  Charlie is also the manager of COMMEND, a five year initiative to foster a web-based community among developing country energy planners.  In addition to developing LEAP, Charlie has developed a range of other software tools and web sites for energy and environmental planning including GreenTrips (a web based tool for households to plan their transport emissions), and IDENTIFY (a spreadsheet-based tool for industrial climate mitigation project planning developed for UNIDO).  Charlie has also been a major contributor to the development of other SEI software tools including WEAP and PoleStar

Charlie received a Ph.D. from the Centre for Environmental Technology, Imperial College, London in 1990.