The Stella Group, Ltd. Announces Several Defense and Homeland Security Activities

The Stella Group, Ltd.. is a strategic technology optimization and policy firm for clean distributed energy users and companies which include advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, fuel cells, geo-exchange, heat engines, minigeneration (natural gas/propane), microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar thermal (including daylighting, water heating, industrial preheat, building air-conditioning, and electric power generation). The Stella Group, Ltd. blends distributed energy technologies, aggregates financing (including leasing), with a focus on system standardization. Scott Sklar, the Group's founder and president, lives in a solar home and has a zero energy office buiding in Arlington, Virginia and his coauthored books: The Forbidden Fuel was re-released in 2010 for its 2nd printing, and A Consumer Guide to Solar Energy, was  re-released for its third printing.

Scott Sklar serves as Steering Committee Chair of the Sustainable Energy Coalition, composed of the renewable energy and energy efficiency trade associations and analytical groups, and sits on the national Boards of Directors of the non-profit Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Renewable Energy Policy Project, and the Policy Committee of the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council.. Sklar is an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University teaching a unique  multidisciplinary sustainable energy course. On November 4, 2010 Secretary Locke approved Sklar's appointment to the Department of Commerce Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee (RE&EEAC).