2009 NAESCO's 26th Annual Conference

Legislative Outlook
Jeff Genzer, Duncan Weinberg Genzer & Pembroke

Advocacy Report
Donald Gilligan, NAESCO

U.S. ESCO Industry and Market Trends
Chuck Goldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Have Renewable Portfolio Standards performed according
  to expectations and can they be viewed as an effective strategic mechanism?
• Should ensuring an energy efficiency component of an RPS be considered by the industry as good as adoption of an EERS?
• The impact of the choices about allowance allocations on
  market development
• Will the likely international pressures on the U.S. to adopt more aggressive global warming initiatives at the upcoming multilateral Copenhagen meetings have any substantial impact on U.S. policies?
• How Denmark has successfully managed economic growth and emissions reduction strategies

David Wooley, Vice President & Power Utilities Program Director, The Energy Foundation
Ruth McCormick, Senior Policy Associate, Business Council for Sustainable Energy
Finn Mortensen, Executive Director, Climate Consortium Denmark
Moderator: S. Lynn Sutcliffe, CEO, The EnergySolve Companies
 

• How much energy efficiency is being procured by GSA in
  dispensing the $4.5 billion in stimulus monies for green high performance buildings?
• Has GSA follow through on its public commitment to leverage the federal funding with ESPCs?
• Overcoming the challenges to meeting the president’s expressed goal of retrofitting 75% of the federal buildings: A progress report
• Does FEMP have the necessary resources to take a leadership role across the government?
• How is HUD reengineering their energy efficiency initiatives using the new dedicated stimulus monies?

Dick Santangelo, Manager, Public Housing Energy Program,
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
Paul Davis, Energy Program Specialist, General Services Administration, Pacific Rim Region
Richard Kidd, Program Manager, Federal Energy Management
Program, U.S. Department of Energy
Moderator: David Weiss, President & Chief Operating Officer
Energy Services, Pepco Energy Services
 

• Managing and moving the federal monies to “shovel ready” projects
• Evaluating the scope and success of the initial investments
• Are the projects underway leveraging stimulus monies and private investment?

Donald Gilligan, President, NAESCO
Dale Hahs, Manager, Business Development, ConEdison Solutions.
Moderator: John Carter, Director of Energy Services, America, Honeywell Building Solutions
 

Sponsored by:
PHILIPS LIGHTING COMPANY
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON
JOHNSON CONTROLS INC.

Sponsored by:
UCONS, LLC and SYNERGY COMPANIES

Sponsored by:
GRANT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
 

• Broadening the range of energy efficient strategies employed to reduce electric demand and costs
• Translating the growing acceptance of energy efficiency into specific corporate decisions about payback and IRR requirements

Stephen Coppinger, Director, Energy Services, CalPortland
Company
David Pogue, National Director of Sustainability, CB Richard Ellis
Moderator: Buddy Hahs, General Manager - Midwest Region, ConEdison Solutions
 

• Gauging the impact of state policies, regulatory and legislative requirements on electric and gas utility efficiency programs over the next decade
• Has the California energy efficiency juggernaut peaked?

Charles Goldman, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
Campbell Hawkins for Mark Wallenrod, Manager of Energy Efficiency Programs and Operations, Southern California Edison
Moderator: Richard Sperberg, President, Onsite Energy Corporation
 

Sponsored by:
BOSTONIA PARTNERS
 

Sponsored by:
GRANT CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
 

• Is there a real or perceived credit crunch for efficiency
  project financing?
• Are there any preferred project structures or market segments favoring financing availability?
• Do ESCO projects need equity investors again, as they
  did in the 1990s?
• Have total project investment levels, contract tenures, or
  financing terms been affected by the economic slowdown?
• The impact of the ERISA and ARRA tax incentives on project development and financing

Peter Flynn, Partner, Bostonia Partners
Beau Engman, Managing Partner, Pegasus Energy Efficiency Fund
Neil Zobler, President, Catalyst Financial Group, Inc.
Moderator: Stephen Kueppers, Vice President, United Financial of Illinois, Inc.
 

• Are there material legal issues that arise when building green that differ from other types of construction?
• Structuring contracts to account for challenges associated with designing and building green
• Developing green building risk management strategies

Douglas White, Attorney, Greenberg Traurig LLP
Moderator: Michael Loth, Director - Solutions Marketing & Strategy, Johnson Controls, Inc.
 

• Successfully managing M&V and behavioral challenges
• Developing platform-neutral standards
• Reducing the effect of equipment creep
• New generation of software creates new performance
opportunities

Lawrence Vertal, Executive Director, The Green Grid
Moderator: David Birr, President, Synchronous Energy Solutions
 

Sponsored by:
OSRAM SYLVANIA