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First-Ever Tennessee Green Summit to be Held in Nashville Sept. 22

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Deb Faust
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First-Ever Tennessee Green Summit to be Held in Nashville
“Getting Green to Go Green.”

Knoxville, TN (September 3, 2009) — The Tennessee Energy Services Coalition announced today that it will host the first-ever Tennessee Green Building Summit on September 22, 2009 at the Nashville Airport Marriott. The conference, with a theme of “Getting Green to Go Green,” will provide an opportunity for cities, counties, K-12, higher education, state agencies and a wide variety of stakeholders to participate in informative sessions on funding energy efficiency projects.

Government and community leaders as well as industry experts will discuss trends, legislation and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) monies available for energy efficiency projects.

The State and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will be also on hand to discuss incentives offered for energy efficiency projects.

Attendees will learn how performance contracting can be used to leverage savings to perform energy efficiency projects and where this method has been successful in Tennessee.

Confirmed participants include:

  • Dan Beckley, Office of Energy Efficiency &Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE)
  • Ryan Gooch, Director of Energy Policy, Department of Economic and Community Development, State of Tennessee
  • Mayor Karl Dean, City of Nashville, TN
  • Dale Hahs, Member of the Board, National Energy Services Coalition
  • Kenneth R. Breeden, Executive Vice President, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • David Terry, National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO)
  • Don Gilligan, President, National Association of Energy Services Companies (NAESCO)
  • Alex Tapia, Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA)

Confirmed panelists include:

  • Dr. Tim Webb, K-12 Commissioner of Education, State of Tennessee
  • Dick Tracy, Executive Director, Office of Facilities Management , Tennessee Board of Regents
  • Joe Edgens, Executive Director, Facilities &Operations, Nashville Metropolitan Board of Public Education (MBPE)
  • Mayor Brent Greer, Henry County, TN
  • Dianna Stephens, Assistant Director, Building Operations Support for General Services
  • Greg Palko, Energy Efficiency Program Manager, Facilities Management Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Confirmed conference participants:

  • Office of Energy Efficiency &Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • Department of Economic and Community Development, State of Tennessee.
  • Nashville Electric Service (NES)
  • Tennessee Energy Services Coalition (TNESC)
  • Southeast Energy Efficient Alliance (SEEA)
  • Association of Tennessee Valley Governments (ATVG)
  • National Association of State Energy Offices (NASEO)
  • National Energy Services Coalition (ESC)
  • National Energy Services Companies (NAESCO)

Cost per attendee is $60. For the latest information and registration, please visit www.tngreensummit.com You may also follow the summit on Twitter: @tngreensummit

High resolution images, logos and bios ready for publication are available upon request by emailing deb.faust@energyservicescoalition.org.

ABOUT TENNESSEE ENERGY SERVICES COALITION

The mission of the Tennessee State Chapter of the Energy Services Coalition is to promote the benefits of, provide education on, and serve as an advocate for the widespread use of energy performance contracting in public and private facilities.

The Energy Services Coalition is a national non-profit organization composed of a network of experts from a wide range of organizations working together at the state and local level to provide education and develop and disseminate information to increase the delivery of energy efficiency for the benefit of the general public.

The Tennessee Energy Services Coalition Chapter is dedicated to identification of barriers to the use of performance contracting as an option for building owners and occupants to acquire building upgrades, energy efficiency, water conservation, renewable energy resources; and combined heat and power, development of solutions that remove these barriers such as developing and disseminating new information and materials where needed; exchange of information, cooperative work by the affected parties; education on the benefits of increased energy efficiency and renewable energy and on how increased energy efficiency, water conservation, and renewable energy can be implemented; and to remove the barriers for building owners and occupants to use performance contracting and other means for acquiring and financing building upgrades, energy efficiency, and renewable energy resources.

Through the collaborative efforts and diverse knowledge of its public and private members, the Energy Services Coalition aims to make energy performance contracting one of the primary means of increasing energy efficiency, reducing energy consumption, and improving air quality in all types of facilities in every market segment.

For more information, please visit www.energyservicescoalition.org/chapters/TN/index.html.