He is a Past-President of the
National Energy Raters Association and co-founder of the
Alliance for Affordable Energy, which, in its first decade, helped
regulators save the citizens of New Orleans over ten billion dollars in
electricity and gas bills. In 1986-88, while the Energy Consultant to the
Louisiana Attorney General, he was an expert witness before the Louisiana
Public Service Commission and co-authored A Proposal for Least-Cost
Utility Planning, for the Louisiana legislature. In 1988, he designed a
commercial lighting retrofit with a two-month payback. His innovations
are frequently two-to-five times as energy efficient as conventional
alternatives including: HVAC distribution, insulation and dehumification
systems, as well as methods to test their effectiveness. They involve:
ground-source heat-pumps, hydronic cooling, cathedralized attics and
passive dehumidification. He received the 2002 Special Merit Award for
Steering the Professional Development of Certified Louisiana Home Energy
Raters from the
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. He is the principal
consultant to a study funded by DOE, Testing and Sealing Ductwork, and
Reducing Energy Usage in Existing Residential and Industrial
Buildings. As principal author of Generalized Subtraction
Correction Algorithm, published in ASTM's Journal of Testing and Evaluation,
November 2004, he unified and enhanced duct leakage, house leakiness and
zone pressure dependence testing into a fast and robust diagnostic
approach for measuring and analyzing the advective flows most important
to energy auditing.
302 Walnut Street
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Myron.Katz@EnergyRater.com