About Fred Davis: From the 1970s Energy Crisis to today’s Climate Emergency, both as a professional and an advocate, Fred has been a leader in clean energy. In the past decade, he has been at the forefront of communities transitioning toward a low-carbon future, decarbonizing with heatpumps, solar, and electric vehicles.
Fred ran his business wholesaling energy-efficient lighting products, and was a leader in that field. He helped devise the first national standards for lamp efficiency and chaired the first national conference on energy-efficient lighting. He helped introduce the world to compact fluorescent light bulbs, to electronic ballasts, and to efficient LED products.
In both municipal and faith-based communities, Fred has been active as an organizer driving community decarbonization. As member, then Chair 2019-22, of Medfield Energy Committee, he helped to effect solar and efficiency projects, implement a climate action plan, and promote the potential for net-zero in the massive redevelopment of a historic state hospital campus.
As the top energy expert at Jewish Climate Action Network, and President since 2022, he’s been helping to lead over 120 synagogues and their congregants toward decarbonization. Fred devised curriculum ideally suited for volunteer green teams, and mounted impactful programs such as Solar for Synagogues, and Accelerating Heatpumps.
Fred also currently serves on the Board of MCAN (Massachusetts Climate Action Network), and the Program Committee of NESEA’s Building Energy Conference. These days, Fred is most interested in training local climate leaders in the singularly impactful peer-to-peer program, Decarbonizers of [your community].