Richard W. Caperton

Richard W. Caperton is the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs & Market Development at Arcadia, a position they have held since August 2018. Prior to their current role, Mr. Caperton served as the Director of National Policy and Partnerships at Opower from December 2013 to August 2018.

In their role at Opower, Mr. Caperton was responsible for managing the company's US policy work with a focus on creating policy environments that recognized the benefits of behavioral energy efficiency. During their time at Opower, Mr. Caperton was instrumental in ensuring that utilities could use Opower's behavioral energy efficiency tools to comply with the Clean Power Plan, which grew the domestic residential efficiency market Opower could address by 50%. Additionally, Mr. Caperton developed and implemented a strategy for utilities to earn a rate of return on Opower's cloud-based software products, significantly improving the market opportunity for Opower's non-demand side management offerings. Finally, Mr. Caperton built a business case for Opower's behavioral demand response solution related to wholesale power markets and shaped market rules so utilities could use Opower's tool as a capacity resource in those markets.

Before joining Opower, Mr. Caperton worked at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Mr. Caperton holds a Bachelor of Arts in Richard'story from Williams College and a Master of Arts in International Economics and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Richard W. Caperton received their MBA in International Business from Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and their B.A. in Politics from Pomona College.

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