Employee Bio
Jon Pietruszkiewicz P.E., CCP
30 years- Jon is currently a Senior Project Manager and Director of Efficiency in the Black & Veatch Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Business. He currently manages a team including LEED professionals, Certified Energy Managers, Certified Carbon Reduction Managers and a Certified Cogeneration Professional. During the past two years at Black & Veatch he has completed the following assignments: Supported a wind, solar, and geothermal resource assessment and once thru cooling strategy assessment for a utility’s Integrated Resource Plan
Project Manger for Geothermal resource assessments for Sacramento Municpal Utility District, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and PacifiCorp
Project Manager for a geothermal market assessment for Turkey for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Project Manager for several different utility scale cost, performance, feasibility studies for PV
Project Manager for wind and solar resource assessment and feasibility study for City of Brisbane.
Contributor to: Assessment of a 15 Percent Pennsylvania Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard.
Task leader for the Owen’s Lake photovoltaic (PV) wind reduction pilot plant.
He has been Project Manager, Program Manager and Manager of Marketing and Business Development with experience in conceptual design, final design, construction coordination, and environmental permitting. Also, Jon has significant consulting, technology assessment, and technology portfolio management experience, as well as excellent strategic planning, business planning, market planning and corporation formation skills. During his last two years at Bechtel/Nexant he was assigned as Associate Director for Deployment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Jon has developed or participated in the development of Technology Roadmaps for Bechtel Power Corporation, the Coal Utilization Research Council, and the Electric Power Research Institute and National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Jon supported the successful proposal to jointly manage the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with Battelle and MRI. Jon was assigned as the Associate Director of the DOE Laboratory. He was responsible for improving technology deployment and managed Technology Transfer, State and Local Programs, the Federal Energy Management Program, Environmental Programs and the International programs as well as Technology deployment managers for transportation technologies, utility electric technologies and residential building technologies. While at the laboratory it substantially increased its income stream from technology royalties, and the laboratory began a successful program Sustainable NREL which has recently won a national White House award. The laboratory also began a national technology incubator alliance which currently has incubator members from all over the country. Jon authored a whitepaper defining the role of government in technology deployment.
Jon has not only been employed by major corporations, he also owned and successfully operated his own small retail business for three years. He secured a franchise, formed an S corporation, performed all bookkeeping and tax preparation, prepared the business and marketing plan, obtained building permits, and monitored the construction build-out. His business then provided customer service to customers for mail, shipping and home office services, operating three years. Jon then successfully sold this family business without a real estate agent or other consultant and without legal assistance in preparing the contract.
Jon understands large organizations and the special requirements of small retail businesses. He is currently a CA licensed Real Estate Saleperson and a member of the National Association of Realtors. He understands communities, and as a small business owner, he was a chamber of commerce member and a graduate of Leadership Roseville.
Picture Resume
Jon Pietruszkiewicz, P.E., CCP