Steve Capanna

Envision DOE Initiative Lead

Email: Steve.Capanna@doealumni.org

Steve Capanna leads the Envision DOE effort, bringing more than 20 years of energy policy experience. Steve has 11 years of experience at DOE, most recently in the Office of Policy, where he was Director of Technology Policy from 2021-2025. In that role, he led DOE's work on clean energy tax incentive implementation, which required collaborating with nearly 200 DOE staff across technology offices as well as interagency partners, among several other roles. Before that, Steve worked in DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency, where he started as a Presidential Management Fellow in 2011, and where he worked until 2019, leaving as Director of Strategic Priorities and Impact Analysis. He also spent a year working at the White House Council on Environmental Quality on energy efficiency policy.

After leaving DOE in 2025, Steve worked as Policy Director at the Crux Alliance, a global climate foundation that funds leading energy policy think tanks to develop, enact, and implement ambitious climate policies in large emitting countries around the world. From 2019-2021, Steve led the Environmental Defense Fund’s innovation portfolio as Director of U.S. Climate Policy and Analysis. He began his career in 2005, working on energy efficiency policy and research at the Alliance to Save Energy.

Steve has a Masters degree in International Energy & Environmental Policy and Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Bachelor’s degree in political science and French from the University of Pittsburgh.