Michael Arny Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wisconsin, Us

Provide leadership for all of Leonardo Academy's sustainability programs and services including:Sustainable buildings / LEED / reporting; Sustainable organizations implementation and reporting; Emissions inventories, offsets, reduction strategies and reporting; Sustainability for events; Sustainable land management, Sustainability training; ANSI accredited standard developer; Standard for sustainable agriculture; American National standard for Emissions Inventories, Offsets and Reduction Credits. All services are provided nationally and internationally.

Madison, Wi, Us

Work Areas: Integrated Resource Planning for Utilities, State of Wisconsin greenhouse gas inventory and reduction cost study, energy savings performance contracting, and Training in Minsk, Belarus, on basic business skills for scientists in the former Soviet Union.Description of Work in Each Area:I created the Consortium for Integrated Resource Planning and was its Director. This program supported the development of integrated resource planning and information and provided training, including utility industry restructuring and market-based policy options.I continued my work as the co-chair of the State of Wisconsin greenhouse gas inventory and reduction cost study, which I started while at the Wisconsin public Service Commission. We developed these state-wide, all-sector greenhouse gas emissions studies for the State of Wisconsin. These studies were supported by funding from the USEPA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. We prepared four reports:¬ Emissions Inventory for the State of Wisconsin, - Emissions Forecast for the State of Wisconsin, ¬ Emissions Reduction Cost Study for the State of Wisconsin,¬ Economic benefits and Jobs Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction in the State of Wisconsin.I researched and promoted energy savings performance contracting as a tool for reducing energy use and emissions. I supported the development of the national Energy Services Coalition to remove barriers to use of energy savings performance contracting by state and local government and others. This work was funded by Oakridge National Laboratories and U.S. Department of Energy and was delivered in part through the Rebuild America Program. I also prepared and delivered training in Minsk, Belarus, on basic business skills for scientists in the former Soviet Union who had worked on weapons of mass destruction. (Funded by U.S. Department of Energy Non-Proliferation Program)

Work Areas: Utility Restructuring, Computer modeling of thermal performance of district heating systems in the Russia and Eastern Europe.Description of Work in Each Area:I provided consulting services to public and private clients in the areas of energy and environmental policy, planning, analysis, regulation and implementation.I wrote a guide to restructuring the electric utility industry by implementing retail competition with the objectives of reducing retail customer utility costs, increasing energy efficiency, increasing the use of renewable energy and reducing emissions.I developed computer models for the thermal performance of district heating systems in the former Soviet Union with the objective of increasing efficiency and reducing emissions.

Madison, Wi, Us

Areas of Work:Integrated Resource Planning for Utilities, Electric Transmission Planning, Electric Transmission Siting, Expert Testimony at WPSC and at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Emissions, Clean Air Act of 1990, Wisconsin Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Reduction Cost StudyDescription of Work in Each Area:I worked on implementing the implemented the Wisconsin utility planning and siting law. The goals of the planning and siting law were to reduce environmental impacts and reduce costs for the ratepayers. I played a major role in getting the utilities in the state to develop and justify their plans for electric transmission system expansion based on computer model analysis of electric transmission system. I provided analysis and expert testimony in support of the PSCW decision to require utilities to share their electric transmission facilities, thus preventing unnecessary environmental damage and cost to ratepayers. I testified as an expert witness at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in defense this WPSC decision.I worked on numerous transmission, generation siting, and rate setting proceedings.I worked on the planning for compliance with SO2 allowance market, greenhouse gas emissions inventory and emission reduction cost analysis.I developed criteria for the incorporation of Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 requirements for SO2 emission reduction and the SO2 emission allowance market into utility Integrated Resource Planning.I prepared the application for the funding for a statewide Wisconsin greenhouse gas inventory and reduction cost study. I was the co-chair of the state agency committee that led this study. This study covered all emissions in Wisconsin including both emission that affect climate and emission that affect human health. (1) Emissions Inventory, (2) Emissions forecast, (3) Emissions reduction cost study, and(4) Study or Benefits to the Wisconsin Economy.

Ms, Bs, Ba, Mechanical Engineering (Solar Energy Laboratory), Psychology, Russian Language

Certificate, Russian Language

Summer Russian Language Program, Russian Language

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