Bill Pennington is the Manager of the Building and Appliance Efficiency Office at the California Energy Commission, which has responsibility for building standards, appliance standards, home energy ratings, and New Solar Homes Partnership and Climate Action Team technical work. He has worked in supervision and management roles related to development and implementation of the Building Energy Efficiency Standards and Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards since 1979. For five of those years, he was advisor to the "Scientist" Commissioner at the Energy Commission. He has served on the ASHRAE 90.2 Building Standards Committee, California Commissioning Collaborative Board, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Peer Review Group and Program Advisory Group.
Recently Pennington has represented California in conferences and meetings in Kuwait, Europe and Australia to foster collaboration and international harmonization of building and appliance standards to achieve energy efficiency and global climate change goals. In 2006 Bill received the Special Recognition Award from the California Association of Building Energy Consultants. Also in 2006 Bill received the Jeffrey A. Johnson Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Building Energy Codes and Performance from the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Pennington has a B.S. in Business Administration/Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley, and has done graduate coursework at California State University, Sacramento.
Click to enlarge graph. Standards (appliance & new buildings) have avoided the need for 12% of Peak Demand. $3.5 billion/year. With natural gas efficiencies, approximately $5 billion.