Bill Eger Email & Phone Number

I help private, public, and not-for-profit organizations turn their aggressive climate action, energy, and sustainability commitments and goals into actions and results.Contact me for ways we can work together 👉🏼 https://www.ethossustainability.comETHOS Sustainability is a boutique micro-consultancy specializing in strategic, focused engagements to support organizational climate action and decarbonization planning, climate action & energy solutions identification and implementation, and sustainability management results.Core services - Sustainability and Energy Research, Energy Auditing, Climate action and decarbonization planning, sustainability Management Consulting, Energy Analysis, Energy Procurement, Government Policy Development, Utility regulation and consumer advocacy, Energy Efficiency Program Development, Software Development, Facility Energy Modeling, Sustainability Program Development, ESG planning and reporting, climate disclosure (CDP and TFCD) reporting.

Provide highly-personalized skill translation and development, career preparation, and leadership coaching to 1) early-to-mid career professionals seeking to transition into climate action careers, and 2) those seeking to integrate sustainability and climate action into existing career roles.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

County Manager's Office - Office of Climate Policy & CoordinationThe newly-created Arlington County Office of Climate Policy & Coordination provides expertise and leadership to:- Institutionalize climate action as core to the County’s values and practices across the organizational enterprise- Support and amplify existing and future County climate, sustainability, energy programs- Amplify County climate action across Community through collaboration, partnership, communication through private, institutional, and community-based partners- Demonstrate and communicate Virginia and Federal policy and regulatory leadership- Operationalize the equity-climate nexusDepartment of Public Safety Communications & Emergency Management- Facilitate climate resilience strategies in emergency management priorities and response framework

Provide climate action professional development and curriculum materials to K-12 educators to accelerate climate change learning in our schools.

Alexandria, Virginia, Us

-Senior-level city energy & decarbonization leadership. Support Alexandria’s energy and climate action priorities.-Lead 6-person team, responsible for operations, budgeting, policies and practices, and staff guidance and mentorship. Develop and administer $6 million annual operating and 10-year, $11 million capital improvement program budgets. Influence budget decision making of nearly $10 ~ $20 million for additional energy and climate projects.-Develop and execute energy use, decarbonization, and cost reduction projects with annual reductions measuring between 3 – 10%.-Serve as City’s chief policy advisor and subject matter expert on clean/renewable energy, energy resiliency, climate change mitigation, and climate action, building and transportation decarbonization and electrification. -Lead regulatory intervention practice. Served as an expert witness or provided comments in 10 electric, natural gas, and water rate application or ex parte cases.-Lead City’s local, state, and federal energy and climate change policy practice. Provide recommendations for City action.-Lead City’s community and commercial energy efficiency and decarbonization program development and implementation, community carbon-neutral neighborhood and energy planning, building code and building performance standards development, affordable housing energy efficiency and electrification, transportation electrification implementation, and education and outreach.- Lead organizing and collaborating with partners and stakeholders - local community and advocacy organizations, regional partners, academic institutions, state and federal agencies, national organizations, and philanthropy to advance clean energy, sustainability, and climate action efforts.- Lead organizational environmental sustainability certifications and responsible for environmental, social, and governance and climate disclosure reporting.

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Manage electricity and fuel consumption for city-operated facilities, fleet, information technology, and water-treatment and distribution operations. Objectives include reducing the City’s energy costs and carbon emissions through energy efficiency, energy conservation, energy procurement, behavioral change, education and training, policy, and advanced and renewable energy deployment.

Worthington, Ohio, Us

Dayton, Oh, Us

Taught undergraduate Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering courses in Materials Science and Appropriate Technology and Engineering Design.

US Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Center Alumni Success Story (https://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/tech_assistance/pdfs/eger_iac_case_study.pdf)

Dayton, Ohio, Us

University of Dayton Engineers in Technical, Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-learning ProgramDirected implementation and technical assistance of 14 appropriate technology projects with 25 student engineers in 8 countries throughout Central/South America and Africa. Projects included solar photovoltaic design and implementation, solar thermal autoclave, low-emission biomass cookstoves, and community water supply operations.

Design and install solar photovoltaic, solar thermal domestic hot water, and small-scale wind systems for rural, un-electrified communities.Design low-power lighting solutions using Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology for local manufacturing operations and use in rural solar photovoltaic system deployment.

Executive Education For Sustainability Leadership Program, Sustainability Studies

Advanced Regulatory Studies Program, Public Utility Regulation

Regional Real Estate Leadership Institute

15 Credits Toward Masters Degree, Sustainable Urban Planning

Annual Regulatory Studies Program, Public Utility Regulation

Center For Excellence In Public Leadership, Certified Public Manager

Masters Of Science, Energy Engineering, Clean And Renewable Energy

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Bsce, Computer Engineering

Intermediate Microeconomics, Econometrics

Gis, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics

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