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The Veregy West service region is a key operational area for Veregy, an award-winning, NAESCO-accredited energy services company specializing in energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, and sustainability solutions. The West region is supported by a dedicated team and offers a comprehensive suite of services tailored to clients’ needs in states across the western United States.
West Region Projects
Tucson School District
Tucson Unified School District partnered with Veregy to implement an energy savings project. To reduce maintenance costs and energy consumption, a combination of lighting upgrades, weatherization, and building automation systems were installed.
Durango School District 9R teamed up with Veregy to design an energy savings project that included 1.1 MW of solar energy paired with LED lighting and building envelope improvements.
Veregy was the Commissioning Authority for the prestigious Terminal 2 Renovation that achieved LEED Gold certification. This project was a complete renovation of the facility and included many energy efficient and emerging technology applications.
To reduce operating costs and enhance the working environment, Washington County partnered with Veregy to implement improvements in the Courthouse, County Home, and Children’s Services. This included HVAC equipment upgrades, a new building automation system (BAS), LED Lighting upgrades, replacement/retrofit of water fixtures, and weatherization of windows/doors.
The three primary objectives of the project were to decrease operations and maintenance effort and costs, increase indoor environmental quality and occupant comfort, and realize immediate and long-term energy savings.
Veregy worked with the University of California Merced to commission credit tasks associated with LEED® for the New Construction rating system. Additional commissioning services were performed for campus support facilities including a greenhouse, competition pool, competition sports fields and parking lot lighting.
The Annual Colorado Rural Schools Alliance “Redefining Rural Golf Tournament” included a day of beautiful scenery and the opportunity to support Colorado rural schools. This annual golf tournament has raised more than $80,000 for rural student scholarships since its inception in 2021.
The Chinle Community, a Navajo Nation, was experiencing an emergency situation due to flooding caused by a 30-year record snowfall and winter season. The flooding caused many people to evacuate their homes and a shortage of food and water supplies in the region. Recognizing the community’s need for immediate relief, the Veregy team sprung into action and drove 7 hours with a truck and trailer to deliver hundreds of water bottles, non-perishables, and other food supplies to the people of Chinle.
Veregy has built its business creating more efficient and sustainable buildings and we were proud to partner with Valley Metro on their solar shade project. Owing to our longstanding partnership Valley Metro asked us for options around the additional costs of adding solar. We understood from the start that as a public entity Valley Metro would need something that was not only cost-effective but reliable and long-lasting.
With several years of experience in the performance contracting industry, Clayton’s rich understanding of managing operational teams, strategic initiatives, technology, and finance positions him well as the Veregy Western Region Vice President. Clayton is a graduate of the University of Denver.
Director of Sales
Ben Madsen
As the Director of the Western Region sales team, Ben leads a team of consultative and collaborative account executives in helping leaders and operations managers throughout the West Coast understand their healthy building, decarbonization, and energy efficiency solutions. He has successfully marketed ESCO projects for over 15 years with millions saved in energy expenses. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toledo.
Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications
Cory Scamihorn
Cory manages the marketing initiatives for Veregy’s Western Region, including developing thought leadership for our clients, networking organizations, tradeshows, website, social media, marketing campaigns, and proposals. Cory spent time as a gross roots organizer working on bond elections and other important issues . He also work in the office of a U.S. House of Representative as a congressional intern. All of which provided great insight into the challenges our K12, local and state government clients face on a daily basis, specifically as it relates to resiliency.
Cory has a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Government from Arizona State University.
General Manager, P.E., CEM, CLEP, B.S.M.E.
Staffan Akerstrom
With over 20 years of experience in the energy industry Staffan Akerstrom has extensive experience in energy efficiency, power generation, renewables, and energy software-as-a-service. Staffan’s work has included program management, project development, operations management, project/construction management, and product development.
Staffan is a co-founder of Enpowered Solutions, now a Veregy company, and has been an invited panel member in many energy and sustainability forums including the International Dairy Foods Association, Calit2 at UC Irvine, Pacific Region CHP Applications Center, and FMA. Staffan has been quoted in several publications such as Food Engineering and Distributed Energy on topics of sustainability, water management, distributed generation, and energy management. He has also served as a host of a Webcast discussing Energy Intelligence.
Previously Staffan was the co-founder of EPS Corp, where he commercialized one of the first real-time sustainability software-as-a-service platforms and was also EVP-GM for the enterprise energy management business of Ameresco Intelligent Systems. He has developed multiple onsite generation projects of various technologies nationally, including biogas and natural gas-fired IC engines, gas turbines, and also photovoltaic systems. His energy efficiency expertise includes HVAC, refrigeration, compressed air, steam, and hot water systems for both commercial and industrial facilities.
Staffan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and is a California Licensed Professional Engineer, Certified Energy Manager, and Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional.
Director of Operations
Jason Brown
Jason brings two decades of electrical trade experience and leads a large percentage of our electrical division. He ensures operations are on target and running smoothly. His holistic understanding of multiple trades, including distributed energy, makes him a valuable resource to our employees and clientele.
Jason holds a certificate in Construction Management from the Alliance for Construction Excellence and is also OSHA 30 Hour Certified. Additionally, he completed the Electrical and PLC Services program at NIT.
Director of Vehicle Electrification
Scott Wisner
As a former transit professional and innovator with several years experience working for Valley Metro RPTA, Scott joined the Veregy team in 2021 to head up our vehicle electrification division. Scott is responsible for working directly with municipalities, schools and transit customers to deliver EV fleet and infrastructure plans and solutions that support your organizations needs.
Manager, Human Resources
Jacquie Wheeler
Project Developer III - Enterprise Sales
Sumit Ray, PE, CEM, LEED, MS, MBA
Sumit Ray is the Principal Engineer and the Center of Excellence lead at CTS. Sumit focuses on developing and managing energy infrastructure projects for K-12 schools, municipalities, large commercial, industrial and educational clients. Also, as a decarbonization practice lead, provides consulting services for utility & energy infrastructure master planning, district energy, combined heat & power, renewable energy and GHG reduction strategies.
As a Center of Excellence lead, Sumit is responsible for developing standardized processes, tools and templates for efficient project development. This is a cloud-based platform for remote access by all engineers.
Sumit has more than 28 years of industry experience. He has PE license for multiple states. He earned a Master of Science in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida and an executive MBA from Michigan State University.
Manager of Regional Technology
Michael Bernard
Michael designs, installs, programs, and monitors Building Automation Systems, some of which have saved customers close to 50% on their electric bills. He also has experience with project management and has a reputation for for trying new things and thinking outside of the box. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University.
Manager, Solutions Development & Engineering
Adam Kline
Adam is the Western Region’s Electrical Division Manager. He is responsible for managing the electrical preconstruction team, which includes new construction, distributed generation, and energy. He also assists the project management team ensuring all costs are accounted for and implemented in the field.
Adam is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), and KMC BacState Certified. He also holds a degree in Building Construction Management from Purdue University.
West Region Controller
Michele Greener
Senior Manager of Corporate Finance
Grant Link
Manager, Consulting Energy Engineering
Sean Murphy
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