ESCO Association Perspective

ESCO Association Perspective Timothy D. Unruh, Ph.D. [...] What is the ESCO Association Role in Policy? [...] • Forming laws that support the industry • Shaping programs that structure the process • Training participants in their roles and duties • Maintaining market integrity • Defending laws that are threatened • Rebuilding programs that degrade 2Forming Laws that support the industry 3 • In the United States, each state and the Federal Government must have laws that allow the contract for energy s [...] • The ESCO association’s role is to engage with these programs to smooth out challenging process components.Training Participants in their Roles and Duties 5 • In the United States, there are several sources of training. [...] NAESCO works with these various organizations to ensure their training is developed well and is appropriate, rather than re-creating these training modules • United States Department of Energy • State and Community Energy Programs • Performance Contracting resources available to state governments • Federal Energy Management Program • Performance Contracting National Resource Center – a compendi [...] • The effort is like a chess game…moves and counter-moves… 7Timothy D. Unruh, Ph. D. [...] timothy.unruh@naesco.org naesco.org 8