2023 Impact Report

Innovation and Future Focus

Innovation and Future Focus

As an independent, mission-driven nonprofit, 中东欧在了解和提高寒冷气候下的足球外围app哪个靠谱方面拥有近40年的专业经验.  

COLLABORATION & VISION

Center for Energy and Environment helps households, businesses, and entire communities use energy wisely, saving money and cutting carbon in the process.

We spent much of the past year exploring community needs, our own mission and vision, 我们不断壮大的团队积累了丰富的技能和经验. 将我们所学到的知识与增加CEE影响力的机会相结合,我们最终达成了一项协议 new organizational strategic plan, which we recently announced. To keep pace as a learning organization, we prioritize inviting diverse perspectives, listening to customers and clients before we speak, 并不断寻求创造性的方法来接触更多的人,以追求公平的电气化和脱碳.  

一如既往,中东欧的战略需要合作和务实的共同愿景. 在我们为更光明的未来寻求和建立新关系的过程中,我们感谢我们的长期合作伙伴关系. 

PEOPLE-POWERED INNOVATION

our research

Our research drives every move we make.

A science-based foundation underlies everything we do, 包括我们从实验室到实地的研究,这使我们能够直接根据我们所学的知识设计创新项目.

Working solo and with other industry experts, CEE的研究人员研究新的足球外围app哪个靠谱技术和公用事业项目的潜在战略, advancing efficiency as well as public health. 我们的利基位于建筑科学和运行公用事业资助项目的实际现实的交叉点. 我们对新兴技术有着清晰的视野,因为我们开发并参与了国内一些最重要、最具开创性的建筑科学研究项目.

Research Projects

CARD grants announcement

Research Newsletter

equitable

We design and deliver equitable solutions.

Guided by our mission and tailored to meet clients’ goals, we undertake research, create programs, 推进公共政策,确保清洁能源转型惠及所有人.  

For example, in 2023 CEE was part of a Native Sun-led, collaborative U.S. 能源部拨款扩大明尼苏达州部落国家的电动汽车充电, Wisconsin, and Michigan. CEE领导的国家资助的明尼苏达州先进能源法规合作伙伴关系由一个广泛的咨询委员会提供信息,该委员会包括工会和部落国家. With an eye on the future, 近年来,我们的清洁能源劳动力项目已经培训了90多名参与者,认证证书合格率达到98%, 超过15名前参与者已经在该行业获得了报酬. 

Career Training program 

Native Sun/EVSE expansion project page  

Our impact

7,000
Home Energy visits
1,000
Energy Advisor calls
22
Active research projects
37
Midwest cities partnerships
21
Twin Cities neighborhoods
1,800
Lighting and HVAC projects
1,426
Home improvement loans approved
52
Home Energy career training graduates
test small

We test small before we go big.

Thanks to CEE’s comprehensive market thinking, 我们的试点项目侧重于从测试新技术到加强项目推广和参与的方方面面.  

For example, last year CEE worked on a St. 保罗脱碳试点由Xcel能源公司资助,在经济适用的出租物业电阻热. In Michigan, 我们与消费者能源公司合作的建筑基准测试项目,在项目结束时,已经有超过50栋建筑参与其中. CEE还完成了由Xcel Energy和CenterPoint Energy资助的为期两年的社区代码支持试点项目,重点是支持社区提高代码遵从性. 

明尼阿波利斯1-4单元住宅气候化和电气化路线图

CEE benchmarking pilot takes root in Southwest Michigan

Lessons learned from the Save to Give Challenge Pilot Program

Presence across the country

我们在全国范围内实现了成功的研究和项目交付.

无论您身在何处,我们都在为您当地的利益相关者量身定制项目,以取得成功.  

In recent years, 我们已经扩大了我们的努力,并在科罗拉多州建立了CEE的存在, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan. 与ComEd建立并加强咨询或项目管理伙伴关系, Consumers Energy, Xcel Energy, and others, we're bringing our strategic vision, diverse skillsets, 以及数十年的经验,以吸引新的受众,并确保在寒冷气候中为更多的人提供更公平的能源未来, upper Midwest. 

Why Choose CEE? 

Midwest ASHP Collaborative

Variable Speed Heat Pumps, summary report for ComEd, Illinois

Our areas of work

Programs

我们减少了能源浪费,同时提高了家庭和建筑的舒适度. 

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Programs

Research

我们通过现场分析、建模和参与来探索能源进步. 

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Research

Policy

我们力求为公众利益提供高效、务实的解决方案.

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Policy

Consulting

我们致力于建筑和社区的长期节能解决方案. 

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Consulting

Lending

我们帮助明尼苏达人提升家庭和工作的效率和舒适度.

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Lending

Market Transformation

我们为更广泛地采用有前途的技术铺平了道路. 

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Market Transformation
magic is our people

Our people bring innovation to life.

CEE的员工将能源领域的专业知识与使命驱动的激情相结合.  

Our offices in Minneapolis and St. Paul现在拥有200多名从能源审计员到项目经理的专业人员, energy advisors, research engineers, home performance experts, programmers, construction managers, community energy planners, loan officers, and policy analysts. In addition to our Minnesota-based employees, 我们正在越来越多地部署卫星小组,在科罗拉多州和伊利诺伊州等其他州承担重要工作. CEE的优秀文化使其被评为明尼苏达州200家最佳工作场所之一. 

Staff Directory 

Work with Us

ANNUAL ESTIMATED SAVINGS 

45 million kWh
of electricity
27,000 Decatherms
in natural gas
29 million pounds
of CO2 (2022)
$6.3M
in annual energy costs

LEADERSHIP

Tom Garry, Chairperson  

Amanda Novak, Vice Chair  

Nancy Tyra-Lukens, Treasurer  

LisaBeth Barajas  

Ralph Dickinson  

Julia Donaldson  

Jimmy Loyd  

Non-voting Officers of the Corporation  

Chris Duffrin, President  

Stephanie Haddad, Corporate Secretary 

Shonda Biddle, Director of Commercial and Industrial Energy Development  

Dave Bohac, PE, Senior Director of Research  

Chris Duffrin, President  

Ryan Ellis, General Counsel 

Kristen Funk, Senior Director of Commercial and Industrial Energy  

Cindy Greenwood, Director of Human Resources  

Stephanie Haddad, Chief Operating Officer  

Tim Hanrahan, Director of Communications  

Jim Hasnik, Director of Lending Services  

Carl Nelson, Senior Director of Program Development  

Rebecca Olson, Senior Director of Residential and Community Energy  

Audrey Partridge, Director of Policy

Tom Spielman, Director of Information Technologies  

Judy Thommes, Director of Operations   

Doug Will, Chief Financial Officer