If that sounds as dumb as a possum… well, it is. State utility regulators nationwide unanimously agreed in to fix this perverse incentive, and about nine states did, but then restructuring derailed reform. The fix is easy. Second, regulators must let utilities keep part of any savings as extra profit. How much electricity can be saved through efficient use? Most existing houses can be modified to cut their electricity use by half, repaying the retrofitting cost in a few years. It stays comfortable without a heating or cooling system, saving 99 percent of space- and water-heating energy and combining natural light with efficient off-the-shelf lights and appliances.
Well-designed houses in a dry climate at up to degrees Farenheit have saved percent of air-conditioning energy at lower construction cost, and nearly 90 percent in tropical Bangkok at no extra cost. Integrative design often makes big energy savings cost less than small ones.
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Like retrofits and smart design, decentralized low- or no-carbon electric generators such as gas-fired cogeneration of heat and power, microhydro, and windfarms can be built quickly. In , they added 2. Their installed capacity grew 5. In the past twenty-five years he has served as a board member or adviser to eight foundations and on the Boards of many organizations including the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Aldo Leopold Foundation.
He has lectured at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the U. He headed the effort to design, fund, and build the Adam Joseph Lewis Center, which was named by an AIA panel in as "the most important green building of the past thirty years," and as "one of thirty milestone buildings of the twentieth century" by the U. Pace is also a public interest intervenor in rate cases and other key proceedings before the New York Public Service Commission. Karl has more than 25 years experience in energy and climate policy and markets.
He is recognized as an innovator in electric utility regulatory issues relating to clean energy services and technologies.
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Karl serves as Chair of the Board of the Center for Resource Solutions, a San Francisco-based non-governmental organization that works to advance voluntary clean energy markets. Under his leadership, NCSEA advances a clean energy path that results in net savings for all North Carolina ratepayers, works to maintain a financially stable and reliable utility, and strives to ensure a globally and regionally competitive energy industry and economy that benefits all of North Carolina.
He has consistently employed a systemic and incremental strategic vision that intends to align the needs of consumers, the clean energy industry, utilities and government to achieve this. Ivan is currently the Technical Principal Investigator on a U.
Senate on March 10, He is the eleventh federal co-chair to be appointed since the Commission was established by an act of Congress in Gohl came to ARC with 20 years of experience in Pennsylvania state and local government. From to , he held positions including executive assistant to the mayor of Harrisburg; elected member of the Harrisburg City Council; deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs; and director of the Pennsylvania governor's Washington office.
He also managed several initiatives to strengthen the capacity of rural local governments to meet economic challenges.
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From to , Gohl served as a special assistant, and then as an associate assistant secretary, at the U. There he was responsible for the development and implementation of legislative strategy in the areas of immigration policy, employment standards, affirmative action and federal workers' compensation programs, and international affairs, including child labor and core labor standards.
In his Senate confirmation hearing, Gohl stated that his objective as ARC federal co-chair would be to ensure that each federal dollar expended by the Commission was "an investment in the economic future of Appalachian families that will generate a return for American taxpayers. Gohl holds a bachelor of arts degree from Rider College now Rider University in New Jersey and a master of public administration degree from Pennsylvania State University.
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She served as Chairperson of the Theatre and Dance department at Appalachian from As a dance professor, she has coordinated the Dance Studies honors program, the dance program, co-directed of the Appalachian Dance Ensemble, and has received numerous grants in support of her choreographic work. Over the years, stemming from a love of the new and unknown, Marianne has created over twenty-five new courses in the curriculum at Appalachian.
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She was one of the co-authors of the book, Expressive Arts Therapy: She has worked in therapeutic movement in several mental health settings and is on the Graduate faculty at Appalachian for Expressive Arts and Bodywork. She is listed in the Classical Pilates Directory as a 2nd generation instructor. Sheri Everts, Chancellor, Appalachian Welcome.
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The Power of People. Introduction to Energy Storage. One change this year is that Appointed Sustainability Officers will be allowed to self-select their working group. For the Mid-Year Meeting, Student Leaders are also asked to self-select into one of the other five working groups.
From building peer relationships to speaking before an audience of , the AES has something to cultivate any student engaged in the energy field. Student scholars will benefit from the advice and experience of industry partners during a career panel, and develop lasting connections in the networking reception that follows. The Student Summit provides the opportunity for students to drive change and encourage the implementation of clean energy initiatives on their respective campuses.