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URL:https://www.ifmaatlanta.org/events/atlantas-city-energy-project-mar-18
 -luncheon/
SUMMARY:Atlanta's City Energy Project - Mar 18 Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:Title of Presentation:  “Atlanta’s City Energy Project”
 \n\nSpeakers:    Ben Taube\, President at BLT Sustainable Energy\, Inc
 . and Denise Quarles\, Director\, Mayor's Office of Sustainability\, City 
 of Atlanta\n\nBrief description of presentation:   \nIncrease your unde
 rstanding of the City Energy Project (CEP) and options for benchmarking &a
 mp\; transparency within the City of Atlanta’s Energy Data Accelerator (
 EDA).  The EDA is  focused on low-cost\, standardized approaches for who
 le building performance utilizing tools for targeted energy reduction stra
 tegies.\nBiography of Mr. Benjamin Taube\n\n\n\nBen Taube\, Senior Vice Pr
 esident and equity owner of Evaporcool and past President of BLT Sustainab
 le Energy.  He served as the founding executive director of the Southeast
  Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA)\, an Atlanta nonprofit aimed at impleme
 nting energy efficiency across 11 Southeast states from 2007 to 2011.  Be
 n was the driving force to create a property assessed clean energy (PACE) 
 lending program in Atlanta\, GA for the private building sector.  Ben is 
 a co-founder and serves as Chairman of the Global Cleantech Cluster Associ
 ation\, a collaboration of cleantech clusters from around the world. He ha
 s held posts as the Environmental Manager for the City of Atlanta\; as Dir
 ector of Government Affairs for EcoSMART Technologies and as Public Affair
 s Manager for the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute.  Ben was awarded th
 e 2011 Atlanta Business Chronicle Environmental Emerging Leader Award.  H
 e is the Chair of the Local Energy Alliance Program in Charlottesville\, V
 A\; a 2008 recipient of the Atlanta Business Chronicle 40 Under 40 leaders
  award\; a member of the Atlanta Regional Commission 50 Forward Initiative
 \; and serves on the Executive Board of Directors of the American Israel C
 hamber of Commerce\; Gwinnett Technical College Green Advisory Board\; and
  on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Conservation Voters.\n\nBiograph
 y of Denise Quarles\n\nMs. Quarles is responsible for carrying out Power t
 o Change\, Mayor Kasim Reed’s vision for making Atlanta a top-tier city 
 for sustainability. She sits on the board of the Institute for Georgia Env
 ironmental Leadership\, and teaches operations management at Richards Coll
 ege of Business at the University of West Georgia. She was vice president 
 for environmental affairs at Southwire and worked 12 years at DaimlerChrys
 ler. A Michigan native\, Ms. Quarles holds a master of business administra
 tion from the University of Detroit as well as a bachelor’s degree in ch
 emical engineering from Wayne State University.\n\n&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:Education Program,General Event,Monthly Meeting
LOCATION:Maggiano's at Cumberland Mall\, 1601 Cumberland Mall\, SE\, Atlant
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