Rural Colorado Pioneers Affordable, Green Homes

A first-of-its-kind housing project is up and running in the
mountains of Colorado. In this episode of Grid Talk, Marty
Rosenberg talks with Bryan Hannegan, President and CEO of Holy
Cross Energy. Mr. Hannegan explains how a net-zero, all electric
community is delivering affordable housing in a Colorado tourism
town. He’ll rundown the features that are helping homeowners keep
energy costs down.


Mr. Hannegan also talks about how this project is an opportunity
to take new technologies from the research stage and put them
into use in the real world and how unique partnerships are paving
the way. 


Bryan Hannegan is joined Holy Cross Energy in July of 2017.
Before that he was Associate Laboratory Director at the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), where he co-founded the US
Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative and started
up the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF), a unique
“distribution grid in a box” enabling utilities, entrepreneurs
and consumers to work together on cleaner, more affordable and
more reliable energy systems.


Mr. Hannegan holds a Ph.D. in Earth Systems Science and a M.S. in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of
California at Irvine, and a B.S. in Meteorology from the
University of Oklahoma.