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Staff Biography for Christine Brinker

Christine Hurley Brinker is a Program Associate with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), where she works on industrial energy efficiency. SWEEP is a Boulder, Colorado-based public interest organization promoting energy efficiency policies and programs in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

Ms. Brinker has worked in the field of energy efficiency and clean energy for 10 years. Prior to helping launch SWEEP's Colorado Industrial Energy Efficiency Challenge and Recognition Program, she helped run the Intermountain Combined Heat and Power Regional Application Center, jointly managed by the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), and etc Group and Energy Strategies of Salt Lake City.

Before joining SWEEP, she worked at E Source, where she advised over 100 international electric and gas utilities, manufacturers, large energy users, and government labs about CHP and DG strategies, market trends, new technology advancements, economics, environmental performance, and regulatory frameworks. She also edited Distributed Energy News, a bi-weekly newsletter about new CHP market developments and key players.

Ms. Brinker has been published in Cogeneration and Onsite Power Production magazine, Energy Business and Technology magazine, and the engineering textbook Micro Energy Systems: Review of Technology, Issues of Scale and Integration, in addition to authoring many E Source reports and analyses.

Ms. Brinker graduated summa cum laude with distinction from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BA in both economics and environmental studies. Her economics honors thesis evaluated the costs and environmental externalities of commercial-sector distributed generation.

  

Christine Brinker