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Bob Kistner, serves as the president of the Energy Planning Consultants Inc. (EPC), having served over 20-years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and 10-years with FEMA responding to over 30 disasters. 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-based 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.

Recently, the State of Colorado Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation placed EPC on a standby contract to assist them on a quick-call basis for emergency fuel allocation. The State of Delaware Energy Office is contracting with Energy Planning Consultants for energy assurance planning (2009).

Pierre LeBlanc, serves as the Vice President of Energy Planning Consultants Inc. (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, 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 directed responses to local disasters and managed several volunteer programs including Service to the Armed Forces and International Social Services.  Responsible for management and development of volunteer-staffed community service programs, and rotating on-call responsibility to direct volunteer responses to local disasters in the Front Range and San Luis Valley, CO regions.