Ronald Stein (energy consultant)

Ronald (Ron) Stein (born April 29, 1941) is an author, columnist, Engineer and energy policy advisor for Heartland Institute. He is co-author of Energy Made Easy – Helping Citizens become Energy Literate (2019),  Just GREEN Electricity – Helping Citizens Understand a World without Fossil Fuels (2020), and  the 2021 Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations - Helping citizens understand the environmental and humanity abuses that support “clean” energy.

Ronald advocates that energy literacy starts with conversations and the knowledge that renewable energy is only intermittent electricity generated from unreliable breezes and sunshine. He argues that wind turbines and solar panels cannot manufacture anything for humanity, while fossil fuels manufacture everything for the 8 billion on this planet.

He is the founder of Principal Technical Services (PTS).

Early life and education
Stein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Santa Monica College. Stein received BS in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Northridge.

Personal life
Stein is married and has two children, Russell Stein, and David Stein.

Career
Stein started his career as a project manager at Fluor in July 1964. Later he worked as a project manager in Jaws Attraction, Florida, at Universal Studios in 1987.

He established PTS Staffing in April 1995. Since 2010, he has written different Op-eds about the energy sector and conservation. Stein started Energy Literacy, an initiative for educating the public about energy topics. He is a policy advisor on energy literacy at Heartland Institute and The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT).

Stein has been named as the private business spokesperson for the energy industry. He has started an initiative for Energy Literacy, where he shares books, podcasts, and articles to educate people about the energy sector. Stein is an energy agnostic, and supplies in-depth discussions and explanations about energy-related subjects for the public to become energy literate about the many sides of renewable electricity, and the products manufactured from fossil fuels, that support lifestyles and economies around the world. Renewables and fossil fuels are different. Fossil fuels are primarily used to manufacture products and fuels for humanity, while renewables only generate electricity but manufacture nothing for humanity.

In 2020, PTS was renamed as PTS Advance, and Stein became its Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure. Stein is also a columnist and co-author of three books. His work has been featured in the Eurasia Review, the Heartland Institute, the Cornwall Alliance, and New Geography.

Books
Stein has co-authored three books with Todd Royal on energy literacy.


 * Energy Made Easy (2019)
 * Just Green Electricity (2020)
 * Clean Energy Exploitations (2021); a Pulitzer Prize-nominated book