Beckie Menten

California Director, Building Decarbonization

Beckie Menten is a clean energy and climate policy leader specializing in building electrification, distributed energy resources, and equitable decarbonization strategies across California. She currently serves as California Director at the Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC), where she leads political strategy, coalition building, and regulatory engagement to advance policies that accelerate the transition to all-electric, low-carbon buildings. Her work focuses on scaling heat pump adoption, neighborhood-scale decarbonization, and equitable access to clean energy technologies for communities across California. At BDC, Menten has helped lead major statewide initiatives supporting California’s climate goals, including implementation efforts tied to Senate Bill 1221, landmark legislation enabling neighborhood-scale decarbonization pilots throughout the state. She also works closely with policymakers, utilities, manufacturers, environmental organizations, and local governments to advance strategies that modernize buildings while improving public health, affordability, and climate resilience. Before joining BDC, Menten spent nearly a decade developing and managing clean energy and demand-side management programs for Community Choice Aggregators, including MCE and East Bay Community Energy (now Ava Community Energy). She also held roles at both the California Energy Commission and California Public Utilities Commission, and previously oversaw distributed energy resource programs at the Center for Sustainable Energy, including initiatives related to solar, storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, and low-income energy programs. Menten began her career working on local climate and sustainability initiatives in Arcata, California, where she served as a climate specialist while pursuing graduate studies in Energy, Technology, and Policy at Humboldt State University. Over the course of her career, she has become a recognized voice in California’s building decarbonization movement, with expertise spanning regulatory policy, utility programs, market transformation, and equitable clean energy implementation.