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Claire Fulenwider joins NEEA as its new executive director. | NEEA HIRES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
June marks the arrival of a new era for NEEA as it welcomes Claire Fulenwider as its new executive director.
"NEEA's unique and collaborative role in the region continues to be vital," said Craig Smith, NEEA's Chairperson and Assistant General Manager of Snohomish County PUD in the announcement. "We believe Claire's proven leadership, experience, and vision will bring fresh ideas to the table and help advance energy efficiency and accelerate market transformation for the region. We're very excited to have her on board." [more] |
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PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE: NEEA'S STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS
For more than a decade, utilities – both public and private – as well as the Bonneville Power Administration and Energy Trust of Oregon have come together under the banner of NEEA to work to transform key, slow-moving markets. The leaders in energy efficiency started the conversation around regional savings more than a decade ago and now, with NEEA’s funding up for renewal in 2009, the organization and its board are having a broad and genuine conversation about NEEA’s unique role through its Strategic Planning Process.
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Karen Horkitz, NEEA’s senior market research and evaluation manager, opens the afternoon Portalnd Stakeholder Workshop May 22. Almost 60 members of the energy industry attended the two Portland workshops. |
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SECTOR ROUND-UP
The Northwest Food Processors Association (NWFPA) held its yearly Executive Business Summit in May where it partnered with NEEA and the US Department of Energy (DOE) to facilitate discussions about the value of collaboration in addressing energy, technology, productivity, and other topics related to sustainability. Among the many issues discussed were the types of resources the food processing industry would require from partnering organizations to support them in achieving their goals and objectives. [more] |
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| BUILDING A GREEN GENERATION: SPOTLIGHT ON R.W. BECK
Since its inception, NEEA has worked with the best and the brightest
contractors to help implement its regional initiatives and affect market change
on a regional scale. Five years ago when NEEA decided to step into the brand new
territory of distribution it turned to R.W.
Beck, a Seattle-based contracting firm that has over 65 years experience in
energy, water/wastewater and solid waste projects. Through this partnership,
NEEA and R.W. Beck have developed methods projected to save (by conservative
estimates) 150 to 275 average megawatts of energy in the Pacific Northwest
through a program called the Distribution
Efficiency Initiative. [more] |
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E2 PERSPECTIVES
Last November Portland Commissioner Dan Saltzman stepped onto the podium at Chicago’s Greenbuild International Conference & Exposition and announced plans to introduce legislation that would move increased residential and commercial energy efficiency standards from a voluntary to a more regulated practice. This month's E2 Perspective looks at this legislation and has Sara Patton, executive director of the NW Energy Coalition and NEEA board member, give her perspective on the effects these types of mandates will have on the energy industry and its consumers. [more] | 
Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman unveiled the High Performance Green Building Policy at the 2007 Greenbuild International Conference & Exposition. |
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