MISSION STATEMENT

MacDonald Associates, Transportation Energy Consulting, was formed to transfer and apply internationally the accumulated experience gained through thirty years of transportation energy analysis in California. This stems from the recognition of a need for improved information exchange and collaboration among the world’s myriad government and private sector activities seeking to develop transportation energy options. The intent is to provide clients with the highest quality, most objective, timely products and services available to assist them make their transportation energy project investments as effective and productive as possible.

BIOGRAPHY » TOM MACDONALD

Tom MacDonald has thirty years of experience as an energy research specialist with the California Energy Commission, working on a wide range of transportation energy topics and issues. He has been directly involved with California’s pioneering alternative transportation energy programs for most of their history spanning parts of four decades. His major area of specialization is the field of alcohol fuels, including ethanol, methanol and other alcohols.

Since California’s early testing and demonstrations of alcohol-fueled vehicles (using both ethanol and methanol) in the early 1980’s, Mr. MacDonald has maintained an ongoing interest and research focus on production and applications of alcohol fuels in California and the U.S., and in other countries. He has also been involved in technical and policy analysis and studies of most other transportation energy alternatives, including other biofuels such as biodiesel, natural gas, LPG, electricity and hydrogen, as well as the conventional petroleum fuel supply system and transportation energy efficiency. He has authored or co-authored many Energy Commission reports on alcohol fuels and a variety of other transportation energy subjects (see list of publications), and participated in numerous conferences and forums on transportation energy topics. He is a regular participant and presenter at the International Symposia on Alcohol Fuels.

Mr. MacDonald received his Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Natural Resources at Michigan State University in 1970, with post-graduate studies in energy and environmental subjects at Michigan Sate and California State University Sacramento.

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STAFF

Tom MacDonald
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Email: tmacdonald@tmacenergy.com
Phone: +1 916 529-6582