About Five Star Consultants
A Sustainable Energy Economy
How do we get from where we are - a fossil fuel economy - to where we need to be - a sustainable energy economy?
What products, policies, and programs will help us get there?
What can businesses, non-profits, and governmental agencies do to work toward this goal?
Biography
Ken Regelson
Ken is the owner of Five Star Consultants. Ken helps clients develop, analyze, and implement the products, policies, and programs needed to create a more sustainable energy future. Areas of expertise include utilities, net metering, inverters, municipalization, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and city and state policies and programs in renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has been very active in the passage, rulemaking, and implementation of Colorado’s Amendment 37 - a renewable portfolio standard passed by the citizen’s of Colorado in 2004.
Ken has intervened at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission several times on net metering and implementation of Amendment 37.
Ken has worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Precision Visuals, Inc. Since 1989 he has helped clients apply technology well as an independent consultant.
Education and Awards
•M.S, in Electrical Engineering, 1979, Stevens Institute of Technology.
•2004 CoSEIA President’s Award for net metering advocacy.
•2005 Center for Resource Conservation ReWard for sustainable energy advocacy
•2006 & 2007 honorary membership in CoSEIA.
•2006 Wirth Chair Community Award for passage of and rulemaking for Colorado’s
renewable energy standard - Amendment 37.
