Gregory Kats

Gregory Kats

Gregory Kats
Born (1959-07-14) July 14, 1959
Paris, France
Nationality United States
Occupation Venture Capital,
Clean Technology
Known for Green Building,[1]
Energy Efficiency,
Low Carbon Economy,
Green Design Standards

Gregory H. Kats (born July 14, 1959) is an American businessman, environmentalist and writer. He is President of Capital E, a national clean energy advisory and venture capital firm. He previously served as a Managing Director at Good Energies[2] a billion-dollar global clean energy investor and served for 5 years as the Director of Financing for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).[3]

Education

Kats earned an MBA from Stanford University and, concurrently, an MPA from Princeton University on an Woodrow Wilson Fellowship,[4] and a BA from the University of North Carolina with highest honors as a Morehead Scholar.[5]

Work

Kats has played substantial roles in developing the energy efficiency and green building industries, and is a long-time thought leader, innovator and investor in the transition to a low carbon economy. He is President of Capital E, which works with cities, corporations and financial institutions to design, scale and implement clean energy and low carbon strategies.[6] Capital E invests in early stage cleantech and green firms,[7] and Kats is a partner in Clean Feet,[8] which funds innovative green energy and agricultural projects.

Kats previously served as Managing Director of Good Energies,[9] a multi-billion dollar global clean energy PE/VC fund, where he led investments in smart grid, energy efficiency, green materials and green buildings. He served for 5 years as the Director of Financing for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.[9] Kats played important roles in developing LEED, the national green building standard. He is a founder of the country’s first green bank.[10]

Kats Chairs the Congressionally established committee guiding the greening of 430,000 federal buildings,[11] serves on the Mayor’s Green Ribbon Committee guiding the greening of the District of Columbia, and served on a National Academy of Sciences board on strengthening U.S. global competitiveness.[12] He is the author of Greening Our Built World, which was recently translated into Portuguese.[13] He serves on a half dozen boards and regularly testifies on clean energy, green, and financing issues. Kats recently spoke to the Israeli Cabinet about the costs and benefits of green infrastructure.[14]

DOE Loan Guarantee Program

In response to Congressional investigations in 2011 and 2012, Kats testified three times to the U.S. House Oversight Committee on issues related directly to controversial political issues, including Green Jobs, Federal clean energy strategy and the DOE loan guarantee controversies, which became issues for candidates in the 2012 United States Presidential Election.[15] His congressional testimony highlighted the cost-effectiveness of clean energy stimulus funding and noted that the final loan default rate of the US clean energy loan program would be less than half what the Office of Management and Budget had projected and budgeted for.[16]

His analysis indicated that the default rate on the $16.1 billion Energy Department loan portfolio is less than 3.6 percent, well below the Office of Management and Budget forecast of 12.85 percent, and he determined that the actual default rate will not get out of single digits.[17] Citing the financial objectives and successes of the program to date, as well as the related employment and national security benefits, Kats concluded that the largest risk is that the DOE slows its loan guarantee program.[18][19]

Energy and Green Design Standards

While at the U.S. Department of Energy, Kats was the Founding Chair of IPMVP and built it into the international energy and water efficiency design and verification standard for more than $50 billion in building efficiency upgrades.[20] He was a founder of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).[21] Kats was the Principal Advisor in designing and establishing Enterprise Green Communities, the national low-income green design standard that has served as the design basis for 150,000 housing units to date.[22] He recently helped design the World Bank’s large new green building financing program.[23] In 2011, Kats was the first recipient of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award.[24]

Personal

Kats lives with his wife and two of his three children in Washington, DC. A solar PV system powers his home and an electric hybrid car.

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ "USGBC Announces 2011 Leadership Award Winners". Eco-Structure Magazine. September 28, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Good Energies Company Website".
  3. ↑ "Washington Post Live speaker bio of Greg Kats".
  4. ↑ "Green School Design: Cost-Effective, Healthy, and Better for Education".
  5. ↑ "Greg Kats Class of 1981 interview".
  6. ↑ "About Us – Capital E".
  7. ↑ "Portfolio – Capital E".
  8. ↑ "Clean Feet Investors".
  9. 1 2 https://cap-e.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Greg-KatsCV2014.pdf
  10. ↑ http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2007/02/09/new-resource-bank-targets-green-development-with-construction-loan-discounts/
  11. ↑ "Green Building Advisory Committee".
  12. ↑ "Front Matter - Rising to the Challenge: U.S. Innovation Policy for the Global Economy - The National Academies Press". doi:10.17226/13386.
  13. ↑ Internet, Secovi-SP - O Sindicato da Habitação na. "Tornando nosso ambiente mais sustentável".
  14. ↑ "Capital E – Greening Our Built World".
  15. ↑ "Amid Solyndra controversy, head of federal loan program resigns". Washington Post. October 6, 2011.
  16. ↑ "Statement of Gregory E. Kats Before The Subcommittee Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight And Government spending" (PDF). November 1, 2011.
  17. ↑ "Solyndra Losses a Fraction of Default Budget: BGOV Barometer". Bloomberg. November 11, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Loan-Guarantee Winners Back Loans as Republicans Complain". Bloomberg. May 16, 2012.
  19. ↑ "Statement of Gregory H. Kats President of Capital E Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform" (PDF). May 16, 2012.
  20. ↑ International performance measurement and verification protocol
  21. ↑ "Green School Design: Better for Health and Education...and More Cost-effective".
  22. ↑ "Industry Transformation – Capital E".
  23. ↑ "Industry Transformation – Capital E".
  24. ↑ "2011 USGBC Leadership Awards President's Award: Greg Kats".

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