NEEA HIRES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
After a national search headed by its Board of Directors, NEEA is happy to announce that Claire Fulenwider will join NEEA June 5 as its new executive director.

Fulenwider brings with her over 30 years of leadership experience in energy efficiency and a passion to use this experience to lead NEEA as it enters this new era of energy efficiency.

"This is an important time for energy efficiency to take a priority position for the region," said Claire Fulenwider, NEEA's new Executive Director. "I'm honored to be given the opportunity to lead such a diverse and accomplished alliance toward a common mission. I am equally impressed with the Board and with NEEA's staff, and am delighted to be a part of the winning NEEA team."

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STRATEGIC PLANNING UPDATE
NEEA continues to engage the community in its strategic planning process to determine where the region is heading with energy efficiency and how it can continue to provide its unique value to the region. In addition to holding one-on-one and group sessions with organizations and industry leaders almost every day in May, the Strategic Planning Committee held six public workshops in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington to provide an interactive forum for community input. A final workshop will be held June 9 in Boise, ID.

In June, NEEA will be posting results from its initial feedback on its website along with an interactive forum to provide visitors the ability to participate in live discussions surrounding these findings.

For more information on the upcoming workshop or to take the online strategic planning online survey, visit NEEA’s website.

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NEEA LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE LOOK
NEEA is proud to announce that it officially launched its new website in April. We have updated the web design as well as the navigation system and added new content. Among the new additions to the site is NEEA’s newly launched Success Stories page. Visit today to read examples of how NEEA has overcome market barriers to affect profound market transformation.

NEEA’S OWN RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
NEEA is proud to announce that Market Manager John Jennings was recently appointed a 2008 Cascadia Fellow by the Cascadia Green Building Council. Each year the Cascadia Green Building Council awards five individuals with this prestigious title that recognizes a lifetime of achievement fostering regional or national green building initiatives. Jennings, who joined NEEA more than ten years ago, works with regional design professionals to help promote energy efficient building design.

NEEA TO RELEASE ANNUAL REPORT
The release of NEEA’s annual  report is coming in a few months. We will round up the region’s accomplishments for 2007 and what’s in store for 2008 and beyond.

NEEA CO-HOSTS SOLID-STATE LIGHTING EFFICIENCY WORKSHOP
NEEA, along with the Bonneville Power Administration, the Department of Energy, Energy Trust of Oregon and Puget Sound Energy, will host the Voices for SSL Efficiency 2008 workshop July 9-11. The workshop will focus on market adoption of solid-state lighting (SSL) products and will bring representatives from the government, efficiency industry, utilities and design community together to talk about how each sector can collaborate to promote market adoption of SSL products and promote energy efficiency on a national scale. Register today!