Speaker Information

Global Issues 2010

Scott Sklar

Scott Sklar runs his strategic marketing and policy firm, The Stella Group, Ltd, which he founded in 1995 and came on full time to lead in 1999. The firm facilitates clean distributed energy including advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, heat engines, minigeneration, microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind and solar thermal; specializing on blending technologies and financing for projects, assisting companies to scale up market penetration, and facilitating federal and state polices to expand markets. Primary customers are industrial and commercial, mixed use developers, and governments.

Previously, Sklar served as Executive Director for 15 years of two national trade associations concurrently, the Solar Energy Industries Association and the National BioEnergy Industries Association. He also co-founded and ran for three years the U.S. export consortium of all the renewable energy trade associations, the U.S. Export Council for Renewable Energy, and co-founded its sister energy efficiency entity where he served on its Board of the U.S. Export Council for Energy Efficiency.

He lives in a solar home in Arlington, Virginia incorporating passive solar features, solar water heating, photovoltaics, and highvalue energy efficient lighting and appliances.