Title: Executive Director
Workplace: Sustainable Energy Utility, Inc. (Energize Delaware)
Alma Maters: Washington College, Wilmington College
Boards: Biggs Museum of American Art, Energy Efficiency Advisory Council, Governor’s Energy Advisory Council
Q&A: Best advice for your younger self? “As a kid, you don’t often know what you want to do for a career and that’s often the case for students today. I think we can get bogged down, stressed, and anxious thinking of the big picture instead of taking it one step and day at a time.”
Andrew “Drew” Slater was named the leader of Energize Delaware in early 2023, tasked with leading the nonprofit that aids residents, businesses, non-profits, government facilities, farms and schools become energy efficient. Before becoming the second executive director of Energize Delaware, Slater built a resume of 20 years of experience in various roles, such as Delaware’s Public Advocate, then-Rep. John Carney’s Kent and Sussex Coordinator and legislative assistant for the state senate. In his work with the Office of Public Advocate, he worked to strengthen the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standards and the competition of the Artificial Island project to improve reliability for the electric grid.
