Scott Sklar is Chair of the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Energy Coalition and serves on the non-profit Boards of Directors of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, and the Renewable Energy Policy Project
5/24/2007 :: For 15 years Sklar was simultaneously the Executive Director of the Solar Energy Industries Association and the National BioEnergy Industries Association. For two years prior, he was Political Director of the Solar Lobby formed by the national environmental groups, after 3 years at the National Center for Appropriate Technology (a federally-funded applied technology laboratory) as alternatively RD&D and Washington Directors. Scott served for nine years as an energy and military aide to Senator Jacob K Javits (NY) and was cofounder of the Congressional Solar Coalition - the group that drove the early 1970's legislation for renewables.
In 2000, Sklar joined as President, The Stella Group, Ltd..which is a strategic marketing and policy firm for clean distributed energy users and companies which include advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, fuel cells, geo-exchange, heat engines, minigeneration (natural gas/propane), microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar thermal (including daylighting, water heating, industrial preheat, building air-conditioning, and electric power generation). The Stella Group, Ltd. blends distributed energy technologies, aggregates financing (including leasing), with a focus on system standardization. He assists governments (state and local), federal agencies, and international organizations regarding rd&D and program funding criteria, industry outreach, and procurement.