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| Agenda | Workshops | School Tour | School District Charrettes | Speakers | Scholarships | |||||||||
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| Greg Kats, Managing Director, Good Energies | |||||||||
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Greg Kats is Managing Director of Good Energies, a global private investment firm in renewable and clean energy technologies with over $8 billion under management. Good Energies is a member of COFRA Holding AG, Zug/Switzerland and is represented through offices in London, New York, Toronto, Washington DC and Zug (www.goodenergies.com. Mr Kats leads the Good Energies investments in energy efficiency and green buildings. He is the principal author of Greening America's Schools: Costs and Benefits and National Review of Green Schools: Costs, Benefits, and Implications for Massachusetts. He served as Senior Advisor to the Chenye Carbon Fund, the leading investor in the voluntary carbon offset market and was the Principal Advisor in developing 10,000 units of green affordable housing, (www.greencommunitiesonline.org/about-partners.asp). | ||||||||
| He is a founder of newresourcebank (www.newresourcebank.com) – the first US green bank and the American Council On Renewable Energy (www.acore.org). Mr. Kats serves as Chair of the Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group for LEED and is a principal author of Green Office Buildings: a Practical Guide to Development, (Urban Land Institute, 2005). Mr. Kats served as the Director of Financing for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (1996-2001). With a billion dollar budget, it is the country’s largest renewable and clean technology development and deployment program. He co-founded and, from 1995 to 2001 chaired the International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol, (www.ipmvp.org) that has served as a technical basis for $8 billion in building upgrades, and is translated into 10 languages. | |||||||||
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