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Joe Loper, Vice President of Policy and Research, supervises the Alliance’s policy and research activities. He has more than 15 years of experience in a wide range of energy efficiency research and advocacy, as well as design and deployment of training, education and market transformation programs.
Loper is an expert on energy use and efficiency in federal government buildings, Loper supports federal agency implementation of provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, particularly the metering and procurement provisions. In 2007, he co-authored a chapter of the Presidential Climate Action Project report with recommendations for how the federal government can reduce its carbon footprint by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. As lead author of Leading by Example: Improving Energy Productivity in Federal Government Facilities (1998), he worked with the White House and Department of Energy to implement recommendations contained in the report through Executive Order and legislation.
As a member of the National Petroleum Council’s Oil and Gas study, he provided analysis, debated findings, crafted recommendations, and helped write Facing the Hard Truths about Energy: A Comprehensive View to 2030 of Global Oil and Gas, which was submitted to the Secretary of Energy July 2007.
Loper was the lead author of Building on Success: Policies to Reduce Energy Waste in Buildings (2005), which summarized and estimated the impacts of various energy efficiency policies, many of which were included in the Energy policy Act of 2005.
Loper was the lead author of article Energy Efficiency in Data Centers: A New Policy Frontier, published in the Journal of Environmental Quality Management, (2007) and contributing author for Environmental Protection Agency’s Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency (2007).
He was the lead author of a report for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District titled: Comparing the Environmental Performance of Electric Utilities: Issues and Challenges, which assessed the viability of a utility environmental rating/benchmarking system and developed a strawman rating system.
In his 16-year tenure with the Alliance, Loper has held numerous other positions including Director of International Programs, in which he managed a team of 30 Washington, D.C. and field-based staff operating in more than two dozen developing and transitional countries and oversaw more than $4 million in project funding from USAID, USDOE, UNECE, UNF, and others. He worked with suppliers of energy efficiency products and services to educate energy end-users about efficiency opportunities in hotels, industry, electric and water utilities through several dozen seminars throughout the World. In addition, he co-founded several energy efficiency industry membership associations – including the Northwest Energy Efficiency Council and the Energy Efficiency Development Association in Thailand -- to advocate for energy efficiency policies and programs.
In the early 1990s, Loper researched and authored Energy Policy by Accident: State and Local Energy Taxation, the first and only report to comprehensively and methodically examine treatment of energy throughout state and local tax codes.
Loper received a Master of Science degree in Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1995 and is a Certified Energy Manager.
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