Energy Planning Consultants Staff and Collaborating Colleagues

 

Bob Kistner, serves as the President/CEO of the Energy Planning Consultants Inc. (EPC). He served over 20-years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 10-years with FEMA, and other agencies responding to over 30 disasters. Bob has written over 60 books and articles pertaining to disasters and energy emergencies. He has worked for federal, state, local governments, and private nonprofits. For over three decades EPC has served many cities and states preparing energy assurance plans. These plans are necessary to ensure a quick response to an energy emergency, natural, or man-made disaster. Several states and cities have contracted with EPC to annually update their plans and to provide energy exercises to test the effectiveness of their. We now offer a web-enabled fuel allocation system that can be used to get fuel to stranded motorists on the highway during an evacuation. It can also be used to get fuel to those critical facilities around the state. Bob also developed an emergency refueling hose assembly that has been used in fuel shortages. Energy emergency planning is a urgently needed service during disaster planning. This planning links energy emergency response planning ESF-12 into your state or city disaster plans. During 2010, the State of Delaware Energy Office contracted with EPC for energy assurance planning. EPC is nearing completion of the State of Mississippi Energy Assurance Plan.

Pierre LeBlanc, Energy Assurance Planner & Consultant to EPC - Pierre has over twenty five years of energy experience.  His areas of expertise include low- and high voltage electrical design, power and signal distribution, eequipment and facility ground plane design, high-technology clean manufacturing, and cross-discipline project management. energy experience.  His areas of expertise include low- and high voltage electrical design, power and signal distribution, equipment and facility ground plane design, high-technology clean manufacturing, and cross-discipline project management.  Pierre has extensive experience in developing energy assurance plans, managing disaster response efforts, and creating business model tools to be used for training and project planning.  In his role as a New Product Development Project Manager for several generations of semiconductor capital equipment tools, he developed communication and data management skills that yield effective cross-functional team project execution, and easy access to large volumes of integrated data.  Other experience includes process map development, process implementation, development/documentation of performance specifications, and system upgrade management.  Pierre has served with the American Red Cross as a Community Relations Administrator.  He assisted EPC in the development of the State of Mississippi Energy Assurance Plan and multi-agencies exercises in Mississippi.

Jim Trobaugh, Energy Assurance Planner & Consultant to EPC, graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering.  He worked for the Southern Company System for over 30 yrs in management, marketing, energy conservation, energy management and demand side management.  He was involved in initiating  energy resource plans for the Southern System, including Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power.  He developed energy conservation programs for the Company, as well as the electric industry.  He managed the implementation of the first energy audit computer program system in the country and the first Total Energy Resource Plan. After leaving the Southern Company, Jim has worked as a consultant in the energy field. His experience includes work with A&C Enercom, Energy Management Solutions, and Business Performance Solutions.  He has worked with utilities throughout the U.S. in energy and demand side management, He also worked with the Electric Power Research Institute on renewable resources, electric vehicle research and energy conservation. Jim devoted many years working on committees with the Edison Electric Institute and as a consultant managed the creation of the Industries’ first environmental friendly and conservation home program. Jim is experienced and knowledgeable about resource planning, energy audits, energy planning, renewable energy sources, conservation, and electric power distribution. Jim is located in Roswell, Georgia and will assist EPC in the data collection of infrastructure information.

Robert E. Acker - EPC -Collaborating Colleague - Commander Bob Acker, U.S. Coast Guard (retired), owner of Monument, Colorado-based Ackcellent Consulting LLC, has over 30 years experience in safety, security, preparedness, infrastructure protection, contingency planning and emergency response in the public and private sectors. During his active-duty career, he applied preparedness and planning skill sets in complex operating environments, including port operations, transportation security, casualty investigations, environmental crimes task force casework, collaborative partnerships, and coastal zone contingency planning.  He advised more than 50 senior officers assigned as coastal zone Federal On-Scene Coordinators under the National Contingency Plan, and developed productive partnerships with state and local stakeholder groups in the response community.  He co-chaired a project team that initiated development of a user-friendly, streamlined, electronically searchable regional area contingency plan for oil and hazardous materials response that has been available to the public for more than a decade.  He conducted a successful three-year community outreach effort to integrate an all-hazards approach into area planning committee processes (read more) (more-details) (Bob's Innovations).

Douglas Buser Jr., EPC - Collaborating Colleague - Doug is an information and communications technology specialist with a background in crisis management and new media. Doug is the Director of Communications at west coast based Golden Gate Advisors Inc. During the Deepwater Horizon Incident, Doug was the Communications Lead for BP's High Interest Technologies Test Team and later BP's Alternative Response Technologies team. Under Doug's leadership, the HITT Team received positive media impressions in the USA Today, Popular Mechanics, and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Doug has also written emergency response and crisis management manuals for major oil companies combining social media, crowdsourcing, and database management to meet local, state, and Federal regulations. Doug's expertise spans research and application of public relations, brand equity, and digital advocacy. Doug produced and presented a seminar that combined reputation management, safety and planning, and corporate culture entitled The Fundamentals of Reputation Management. Along with collateral development, Doug has an integrated relationship marketing background in both B2B and B2C contexts. Doug is FEMA Professional Development Series Certified and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Communications Studies from Seattle University.

Daryl Kistner, Energy Assurance Planner & Consultant to EPC - Daryl assisted EPC in the development of the State of Mississippi Energy Assurance Plan. He participated in field investigations of flood-damages along the Mississippi River. Daryl has managed Federal and State government projects such as Buckley Airbase, Lowry Airbase, Stapleton Airport (Runway Extensions), Boulder Waste Water Plant, Genesee and York Street Waste Water Plants, Colorado School of Mines, University of Colorado Boulder, Metro State, and pipeline EPA Grant Projects. He is considered an expert in all types road work, excavating, pipe (large and small), estimating concrete and fill-operations, water tanks, septic systems, and fuel tanks, bore operations, vaults, curb, gutter, storm, retention ponds above and below ground, manhole fabrication and installation, pressurized sewer systems. Daryl's professional skills with writing RFI’s, submittals, submittal logs, close-out documents, zoning, licensing, permitting procedures, fire systems and alarms, security systems and testing (expanded resume).