Consulting Staff

NHI's consultants are seasoned mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and related technical professionals with extensive experience in all aspects of energy management. Here are a few professional biographies of NHI's consulting staff.

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Mr. Kevin Warren is a Senior Project Manager at Not Hot Industries, LLC. He has 13 years of energy efficiency consulting experience. Mr. Warren has conducted energy engineering analyses for hundreds of buildings and process facilities. He has expertise in energy audits, commissioning plans development, energy project measurement and verification, building simulations, and new construction design reviews. He has performed quality assurance and impact evaluations of programs. Mr. Warren has worked for commercial customers, state-sponsored incentive programs, and energy services companies (ESCOs).

Mr. Warren is also the Founder and Principal of Warren Energy Engineering, LLC, an independent energy engineering services firm that provides energy assessments of commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities.

Mr. Warren was a Co-Founder of kW Engineering, a boutique engineering consulting firm that specialized in energy efficiency. Mr. Warren started his career as a Mechancial Engineer at Newcomb Anderson Associates, one of the largest energy engineering consulting firms in California.

Mr. Warren received a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. At the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Warren conducted research at the Solar Energy Laboratory. His work was funded by the Wisconsin Center for Demand Side Research. Mr. Warren earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delaware. He was a National Merit Scholar.

Mr. Warren is a registered professional mechanical engineer in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and California; a certified energy manager (CEM); and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Mr. Warren has provided energy services to many of the leading energy services companies and energy efficiency service providers. His clients include Chevron Energy Solutions, Enron, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, the New York State Energy Reseach and Development Agency (NYSERDA), the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Novar, Pacific Gas and Electric, the Port of Oakland, Powerlight, Rocky Mountain Power, and Southern California Edison.

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Mr. William B. Kallock is a Senior Project Manager at Not Hot Industries, LLC. He has more than 14 years of experience in demand-side analysis. His areas of expertise include energy efficiency and renewable energy market assessment, program design and impact evaluation, analysis of energy efficiency performance measures and programs, verification of energy efficiency savings supported by on-site data collection, assessment and optimization of energy efficiency and renewable energy program portfolios, and organizational efficiency consulting to improve the delivery of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.

Mr. Kallock is also a Senior Consultant with Summit Blue Consulting, a consulting firm that provides design, implementation, and evaluation services of energy efficiency, demand response, and renewable energy programs for energy companies and the utility industry in North America. Mr. Kallock is also a senior advisor to NativeEnergy, a company dedicated to the construction of new renewable energy sources. He helped launch NativeEnergy in 2001 and served as Vice President – Business Development.

Mr. Kallock was a Senior Manager with Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, where he developed commercial, industrial, and residential market strategies and designed demand-side programs for Efficiency Vermont, the first energy-efficiency utility in the United States.

Mr. Kallock served as a Lead Project Developer for Enron Energy Services. In this role, he worked with utility customers to implement energy efficiency projects. Cost savings were achieved through energy-efficiency improvements, improved rate structures, and commodity contracts. Mr. Kallock and his team conducted field studies to determine the savings potential at commercial and industrial facilities for several Fortune 500 companies. He was also involved in the structuring of energy service contracts, valued at over $1 billion, to meet customer’s retail energy needs.

Mr. Kallock was Manager of Monitoring and Verification for EUA Cogenex Corporation, Senior Associate with RCG Hagler Bailly, Inc., and Vice President – Engineering at Financial Energy Management, Inc.

Mr. Kallock earned an MBA degree from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University.

Mr. Kallock’s clients include New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, the New York State Energy Reseach and Development Agency (NYSERDA), Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, Detroit Edison, Bangor Hydro, Boston Edison, Montana Power, National Grid, Federated Department Stores, Kendall Healthcare, Huguley Hospital, and LaSalle Properties.

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Mr. John Stephen Kromer is a Senior Project Manager at Not Hot Industries, LLC. He is an internationally recognized energy efficiency consultant with expertise in energy measurement and verification (M&V), energy information, and risk management.

Mr. Kromer is the Chairman of the Board of Efficiency Valuation Organization (EVO), a non-profit organization dedicated to creating measurement and verification (M&V) tools that enable and assist in optimizing investments in energy efficiency opportunities. EVO is the home of several performance measurement and verification protocols.

Mr. Kromer serves on the International Training Committee of the Association of Energy Engineers and is a founding member and current Chairman of the AEE’s Certified Measurement and Verification Professional Program.

Mr. Kromer is also a principal in several measurement-related engineering companies, including Teton Energy Partners, LLC and ERVCO, LLC.

Mr. Kromer was a Senior Engineer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (where he is currently a guest researcher) and a Director at Enron Energy Services.

Mr. Kromer earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and holds a CMVP certificate. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of California.

Mr. Kromer has provided energy efficiency valuation services around the globe. Some of his recent clients include California Public Utilities Commission (Energy Division), Pacific Gas and Electric, Itron, U.S. Army, Taiwan Green Productivity Foundation, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. Examples of two projects are:

• International M&V – As the Chairman of EVO, Mr. Kromer led efforts to advance the art and practice of Measurement and Verification around the world. EVO signed MOUs with local organizations in India and Taiwan with the goal of creating a local community of certified M&V professionals. Mr. Kromer has also recently promoted M&V in Armenia, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Denmark, Thailand, Chile and China.
• California EM&V Protocols – Mr. Kromer was a member of the team that wrote the new EM&V protocols for the State of California’s new energy efficiency programs. As part of an integrated approach to optimizing the allocation of M&V resources, Mr. Kromer led and effort to perform an uncertainty analysis on the entire energy efficiency portfolio.

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Mr. Dakers Gowans is a Senior Project Manager at Not Hot Industries, LLC. He has more than 14 years of energy efficiency consulting experience.

Mr. Gowans’ professional practice has focused on the planning, administration, and evaluation of rate-payer funded energy efficiency and demand response programs. Mr. Gowans has managed contracts for clients that include investor-owned utilities, public power authorities and public agencies. In recent years, his responsibilities included developing and overseeing a contract with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to conduct measurement and verification of their $175M/year rate payer funded programs and to report annual impact evaluation findings. This multi-year, multi-disciplined effort assessed the impacts of one of the country’s largest public benefit charge programs serving all rate-payer sectors and customer types. Mr. Gowans also led a team to provide technical and engineering assistance to NYSERDA’s Commercial / Industrial Performance Program; the team was responsible for quantifying the electric energy and demand savings that are the basis for payments from NYSERDA to project sponsors.

Mr. Gowans has experience managing long term, complex projects involving multiple contractors, and supervising interdisciplinary staff. Mr. Gowans has over twelve years of hands-on experience planning, designing, managing and evaluating energy efficiency and demand reduction programs. His expertise is based on a technical understanding of the engineering analysis of energy efficiency programs, and is supported by an ability to communicate investigative results to diverse, non-technical audiences. Mr. Gowans is proficient in the following disciplines:

• Measurement and verification of savings for energy efficiency and demand reduction
• Design and execution of market assessment and demand side management potential studies
• Design and management of energy efficiency and demand reduction programs
• Design and execution of large-scale impact evaluations of energy efficiency and demand reduction programs
• Conducting energy audits in commercial, residential and industrial facilities
• Sample design and uncertainty analysis
• Development of protocols for quantifying greenhouse gas reductions due to energy efficiency programs

Mr. Gowans is also the Founder of Left Fork Energy, Inc., an energy consulting practice based in New York. Mr. Gowans held energy management-related positions at Nexant, Schiller Associates, and Xenergy, Inc.

Mr. Gowans earned an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A.degree in English Literature from the University of Colorado.