Tom Secrest

ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIT
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY
P.O. BOX 900, MSIN K9-34
RICHLAND , WA 99352-0900
TEL: +001 509 372-6225
FAX: +001 509 372-6153
EMAIL thomas.secrest@pnl.gov

Most recently Secrest has provided management and technical oversight for international projects conducted at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Advanced International Studies Unit since 1991. Activities have focused on municipal level energy assessments, the application of integrated resource planning to district heating systems, and the preparation of business and implementation plans. A recent project that involved these skills is the Kiev Public Building Energy Efficiency Project, in which Secrest managed the technical, institutional, and financial assessments for this $30 million project financed in part by an $18 million World Bank loan. Secrest has conducted other municipal level energy supply and efficiency projects in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria that have included technical-economic assessments of integrated supply and demand resources coupled with preliminary business plans for implementation of the projects. Secrest has also managed demonstrations of energy efficiency technologies in high-rise multi-family buildings in Krakow, Poland, and in school buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, and established the Bulgarian Energy Efficiency Foundation.

Secrest served as the Buildings Program Manager from 1985 to 1993, which involved oversight for 5 to 8 building energy research programs conducted for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ranging in size from $200,000 to over $3 million. In this position, Secrest was responsible for representing the buildings program to clients and external organizations, and for developing and managing multi-disciplinary teams to conduct the research. During Secrest’s tenure, the buildings program grew in annual volume from less that $1M to over $6M.

In the DOE Federal Energy Management Program, Secrest managed the energy assessment of the Ft. Lewis army installation and facilitated discussions between Ft. Lewis staff and the electric utility that serves the installation for the retrofit of the electrical energy systems. This novel approach has become a model for financing and managing installation-level energy-efficiency retrofits.

Secrest managed an extensive metering and analysis for the DOE's Bonneville Power Administration. This involved the installation of energy monitoring equipment, data collection, and evaluation of retrofit performance in 34 commercial buildings.

He has authored and coauthored over 40 articles and technical reports.

Secrest holds BA and MA degrees in Economics from Washington State University, and is currently enrolled in the Environmental Science Master of Science Program with graduation expected in 2005.