{"id":1012,"date":"2011-09-15T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2017-08-02T10:12:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:12:54","slug":"energy-star-kathleen-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2011\/09\/energy-star-kathleen-hogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Star: Kathleen Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"energy-star\"<\/a>
\nKathleen Hogan\u2019s<\/a> message is clear: Investment in making our homes and businesses more energy efficient will save us money, create jobs, and lower our carbon footprints.<\/p>\n

As deputy assistant secretary for energy efficiency in the \u2028Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy<\/a> at the U.S. Department of Energy, Hogan, who received her PhD in environmental engineering at the Whiting School in 1986, leads the federal government\u2019s $900 million effort to create policy and programs encouraging Americans to save energy.<\/p>\n

Hogan\u2019s focus now is how to retrofit America\u2019s building stock\u2014roughly 5 million commercial buildings totaling about 80 billion square feet, and more than 113 million occupied households, many constructed before energy policy was in place\u2014to be more energy efficient.<\/p>\n

Under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act<\/a>, the department created a grant program to demonstrate how to do home improvement retrofits \u201calmost en masse,\u201d she says, making the conversion to energy efficiency more affordable for homeowners while creating work for home contractors. Her office also works with the business sector on strategies for larger-scale energy-efficiency efforts, all in the hope, she says, of \u201cretrofitting millions of homes a year and billions of commercial square feet a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another program under development would credential home contractors in energy upgrades, which marries well with the Home Energy Score<\/a> program. The idea is that a home contractor, preferably one who is credentialed, would visit a home and give it a score of 0-10 in energy efficiency. The score would be accompanied by a set of easy-to-implement, relatively inexpensive energy-saving measures to improve the score, along with an explanation about the impact on their energy bill.<\/p>\n

Hogan lives with her husband and two sons, ages 16 and 18, in Baltimore\u2019s Roland Park neighborhood, a short distance from the Homewood campus. Since the family moved in a few years ago, they\u2019ve made their circa 1970 home more energy efficient by installing high-efficiency air conditioning and windows, and they\u2019ve bolstered their attic insulation and begun using compact fluorescent bulbs. \u201cIt\u2019s an ongoing project,\u201d she says\u2014and one to which she is firmly committed.<\/p>\n

One of the challenges this pioneering policymaker has faced\u2014not only in her current role but also back to her early-career work at the EPA in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and then 15 years leading the Energy Star program<\/a>\u2014is \u201cfinding things that people want to do, that\u2019s in their own interest, that are win-win-win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is sort of what you learned at Hopkins: If you haven\u2019t had an objective to do something before, let\u2019s not just assume it\u2019s expensive but see if there\u2019s a little step to take to build in the new objective as well, and get it done \u2028at a reasonable cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much that we can do with technology and innovation if we put our minds to it and that is what will keep making this \u2028country competitive and a [world leader]. We want to address the energy resource and technology issues so people can have the lives they envision having\u2014but do it with as minimal impact as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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