This year marks the 10th anniversary for Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) which facilitates partnerships to advance energy efficiency in homes, buildings, and industry across the Northeast. To celebrate, NEEP combined its annual conference with exhibits, an evening reception, and gala evening awards and recognition program when it hosted the Northeast Energy Efficiency Summit on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston.
The 2006 summit theme was “Best Practices for Reliability, Affordability, and Sustainability." Given historically high energy costs and continuing concerns about energy resource adequacy to reliably meet our region’s needs, leaders in the Northeast gathered at the Summit to help NEEP mark this 10-year anniversary with an event that educated, inspired, and offered sound solutions that work.
Audience
Our audience included high profile policy makers, such as utility commissioners, environmental regulators, state legislators, and top state officials who are behind energy efficiency as a practice, as well as energy efficiency service providers, program administrators, and other advocates who are instrumental in delivering sound solutions for our region.
Our 10th Anniversary Northeast Energy Efficiency Summit was designed to reach policy and business leaders to:
- Build business and policy interest to increase investments in energy efficiency.
- Demonstrate the success and value of building-sector energy efficiency to meet energy reliability, economic and environmental goals in the northeast.
- Demonstrate the broad availability of increased energy efficiency across all sectors (residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial) and the opportunities going forward.
- Demonstrate business and policy leader commitment to energy efficiency
- Increase the visibility of NEEP as facilitators of policy, program, and training partnerships to advance building energy efficiency in the Northeast.
The conference included 5 key elements to assist us in reaching our goals:
In the spirit of partnerships, NEEP engaged the help of its partners to help make this conference a great success and a milestone in NEEP’s history. Many thanks to all who made a contribution. They include:
Executive Committee
Conference Co-chair – Ashok Gupta, National Director of the Air & Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
Conference Co-chair - Penni McLean-Conner, NEEP Board President and Vice-President of Customer Care, NSTAR
Conference Director – Sue Coakley, NEEP Executive Director
Dan Sosland – Executive Director of Environment Northeast
Dan Zaweski – NEEP Treasurer and Director of Energy Efficiency & Distributed Generation, Long Island Power Authority
Conference Planning Committee
Jim O’Reilly, Director of Policy, Outreach and Communications, NEEP
Don Fudge, Director of Training and Education, NEEP
Elizabeth Titus, Research and Evaluation Manager, NEEP
Jon Linn, Commercial and Industrial Program Manager, NEEP
Melissa Lucas, Residential Program Manager, NEEP
Lisa Shea, Manager of Energy Efficiency - Policy and Evaluation, NSTAR
Roseann Brusco, Program Manager, NSTAR
Kathleen DeVito, Director of Corporate Communications, Conservation Services Group
Rich Sedano, Principle, Regulatory Assistance Project
Pierre Bull, Assistant Program Manager, NYSERDA
Sharon Laudisi, Program Manager, Long Island Power Authority
Ed Schmidt, United Illuminating Company
Conference Organizers
Telesian Technology (www.telesian.com)
Juliann Grant
Shari Worthington
