Scott Sklar
President
The Stella Group, Ltd

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 association concurrently, the Solar Energy Industries Association and the National BioEnergy Industries Association. He also co founded and ran for three years the US export consortium of all the renewable energy trade associations, the US Export Council for Renewable Energy, and co founded its sister energy efficiency entity where he served on its Board of the US Export Council for Energy Efficiency.

Prior of running trade associations, Sklar was Political Director of The Solar Lobby for two years,  -- a renewable energy advocacy group founded by the big nine US environmental organizations. And for three years previous to joining the advocacy organization, served as Washington Director for two years and Acting RD&D Director for one year of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), a federally-funded applied technology institution promoting renewables and energy efficiency for local communities both in the US and globally.

Sklar started his energy career serving as a military and energy aide to Senator Jacob K Javits (NY) on his Washington personal and Committee staff for nine years, and co founded the Congressional Solar caucus in the mid-1970’s where most of the renewable energy legislation first was passed by the US Congress as a result of the first and second oil embargos..

He serves on the Boards of Directors of two national non-profits: Business Council for Sustainable Energy (climate change), Renewable Energy Policy Project (energy analysis), and Co Chairs the Policy Committee of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (building trades). He also serves as Steering Committee Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Coalition, composed of the 20+ national energy efficiency and renewable energy industry organization, advocacy groups, think tanks, and environmental groups.

Sklar has coauthored two books, “The Forbidden Fuel: A History of Power Alcohol, published in 1985 which is updated and will be re-released in late 2007, and a “Consumer Guide to Solar Energy” first published in 1998 and is in its third publishing.

He lives in a solar home in Arlington, Virginia incorporating passive solar features, solar water heating, photovoltaics, and high-value energy efficient lighting and appliances, and installing a ground-coupled heat pump. His VA office has PV roofing shingles, solar daylighting tube, hydrogen fuel cell, small wind turbine and a ductless heat pump. His DC office has a unique PV system featuring modules from 12 global PV manufacturers. His 15 year old daughter, Stella, is a registered lobbyist and assists in promoting a clean energy agenda.