Symposium

Moderator

Mirko Krück
Director Policy & Economy
EnBW - Energy Baden-Württemberg AG

Mirko Krück has been working with EnBW Corporation since March 2004.  In January 2009, Krück became Director for Economy & Policy. In April 2009, Mr. Krück will become Managing Director of LEEN Corporation; a joint venture between EnBW, Fraunhofer and BRR. LEEN Corp. will focus on schooling Moderators and Ingenieurs on Energy Efficiency Technics in Industries.

Rapporteurs

Jeff Harris
Vice President, Programs
Alliance to Save Energy

Jeffrey Harris is the Vice President for Programs at the Alliance to Save Energy. Harris oversees the buildings and utilities, industrial, and international programs and is responsible for maintaining and expanding existing programs; advocating for energy efficiency in the buildings and utilities, industrial, and international arenas; and supporting the development of market based energy-efficiency programs, both domestic and international. He also is responsible for overall management of the Building Codes Assistance Program. 

From 1993-2006 Harris led the Government and Industry Programs Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).  From 1982-1990, Harris led the Buildings Energy Data Group of 30 LBNL staff scientists and research associates. On detail from LBNL, he served from 1990 - 1993 in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Building Technologies as senior assistant to the deputy assistant secretary for building technologies. He developed DOE buildings initiatives for the National Energy Strategy, Energy Policy Act of 1992, and Climate Change Action Plan and evaluated the energy-savings potential of proposed legislation and DOE initiatives. Harris organized and chaired the international Consortium for Energy-Efficient Office Equipment. Before joining LBNL in 1982, Harris worked at the California Energy Commission as the Conservation Division’s deputy division chief.  Harris has an undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of California, Berkeley.

Alan Meier
Environmental Energy Tech
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Alan Meier is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Energy & Resources from UC Berkeley after completing degrees in chemistry and economics. He spent one year at Waseda University in Japan and, more recently, three years at the International Energy Agency. Alan’s research has focused on understanding how people (and machines) use energy and the opportunities to conserve.  Alan is editor of the journal, Energy and Buildings, and the magazine, Home Energy.

Joe Loper
Senior Vice President, Research & Policy
Alliance to Save Energy

Paolo Bertoldi
Directorate General JRC
Institute for Energy - Renewable Energy Unit
European Commission  

Mr. Bertoldi has been working with the European Commission since 1986. Since May 2001, he is Principal Administrator at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy), in charge of research activities for energy efficiency policy, the efficient use of electricity and innovative policy instruments (e.g. white certificates, financing mechanisms, emission trading).

From 1986 to 1993 he was working in the EU nuclear fusion project, Joint Undertaking Torus (JET) in the UK. For 1993 until April 2001, he was Administrator with the European Commission, DG Energy and Transport (DG TREN, Brussels Belgium), in charge of EU regulatory and voluntary programmes for the rational use of energy in end-use equipment, buildings and industry. He was also in charge of negotiated and long term agreements with industry and tertiary sectors and the GreenLight programme. He continues to manage the GreenLight, Motor Challenge and Standby Initiative programmes on behalf of DG TREN.

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John Tuccillo
President
The Green Grid