Palmetto State Clean Cities Coalition

Andrew Epting is employed by the South Carolina Energy Office as Coalition Coordinator for the Palmetto State Clean Fuels Coalition (PSCFC). The PSCFC is comprised of over 100 stakeholders who represent many different alternative fuel and advanced drive interests as well as municipalities, state agencies and non-profit organizations.

Epting has been working in the alternative energy and sustainability sector for five years. His first official role in advocating for a sustainable community was as Secretary of Environmental Affairs in student government at the University of South Carolina. In that role, he promoted recycling, waste reduction among the university's faculty, staff and students, as well as assisted the university in developing a bike/pedestrian master plan. In 2007, Epting started a small photovoltaic and solar thermal company in the USC/ Columbia Technology Incubator. His company, Palmetto Solar focused on small residential solar installations.

Epting competed in the New Ideas/New Carolina competition and in the Fall of 2007 and won runner-up for Palmetto Solar. He also won the Environmental Category and a grant in the Spring of 2008 for his Photon Turbine, based upon the Crooke's Radiometer. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in May of 2009 with a degree in History.