STAN WALERCZYK

 

Experience

18 years of experience, including distribution, maintenance, turn-key retrofit contracting, speaking, writing, lighting design, consultation, third party review, energy efficiency regulations, and research. Over 400 projects including K-12 schools, colleges, hospitals, office buildings, historic commercial buildings, retail stores, factories, warehouses, parking facilities, multifamily dwellings, and single family houses.

 

Presentations at major events

·         High Performance (Super) T8s & Extra Efficient Ballasts, Efficient Electro-Technology Exposition & Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 11/06

·         How to Design and Implement Scotopically Enhanced Lighting, Energy 2006, Chicago, 8/06

·         MH vs. Fluorescent – 10 rounds in the Hibay Arena, Plant Engineering and Maintenance Show, Modesto, CA, 3/06

·         Advantages of Suspended Indirect Lighting for Schools, Offices & Conference Rooms and Lighting: Controversy in Controlling Cost, both at PCEA Hawaii Conference & Expo, Kona, Hawaii, 9/05

·         Gap Between Marketing Hype and Best Practice, World Energy Engineering Congress, Austin, 9/05

·         Advanced Lighting Retrofit Options Workshop, West Coast Energy Management Congress, San Diego, 6/05 & World Energy Engineering Congress, Austin, 9/05

·         Lighting: Emerging Near and Mid Term Opportunities in Commercial Buildings, ACEEE & CEE’s National Symposium on Market Transformation, Washington DC, 3/05

·         The Grand Opening of SDREO’s new Lighting and Control Displays, San Diego, 3/05

o        Also specified most of these products for San Diego Regional Energy Office

·         3Rs - Retrofit, Relight & Redesign, Lightfair, Las Vegas, 3/04

·   MH vs. Fluorescent – 10 rounds in the Hibay Arena, Energy Expo, Honolulu, Hawaii, 11/04

·   MH vs. Fluorescent – 10 rounds in the Hibay Arena, IESNA Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, 7/04

·         Systems Applications, CTLC Strategic Planning/Visioning Forum, Sacramento, 4/04

·         Cutting Edge Retrofitting and Relighting, World Energy Engineering Congress, Atlanta, 11/03

Thinking Out of the Box – Innovative Retrofits and Relighting, IESNA Annual Conference, Utah, 8/02
Cutting Edge Retrofitting and Relighting, Lightfair, 6/02
The Hot Topic – Lighting and the new Energy Crisis, IESNA Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 8/01
Fluorescent vs. HID – 10 rounds in the High Bay Arena, Lightfair, San Francisco, 5/99

 

General presentations

·         300+ since 1997

For numerous institutions, including:
Agriculture Technology Application Center, Southern California Edison
Association of Bay Area Governments (Los Angeles area)
Association of Energy Engineers, San Francisco Chapter
British Columbia Hydro
Building Operator Certification
California Lighting Technology Center, Pacific Gas & Electric
California Society of Healthcare Engineering, several chapters
Cooper Lighting
Customer Technology Application Center, Southern California Edison
Ecology Action
General Electric
Hawaiian Electric Company
Holophane
Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, several chapters
Iowa Energy Resource Station
Maui Electric Company
Pacific Energy Center, Pacific Gas & Electric
Philips
Rebuild America, several states
Roseville Electric
Ruud Lighting
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
San Diego Gas & Electric
San Diego Regional Energy Office
San Jose State University
Sonoma State University
Smart Lights
Stockton Training Center, Pacific Gas & Electric
Sylvania
Ventura County Regional Energy Alliance
Wisconsin, State of 
Seminar schedule, titles and descriptions available in seminar page at www.lightingwizards.com

 

Publications (individual and co-author)

‘Dimming Ballasts – Buyer Beware”, LD+A, 12/06
“Best Practice Report”, 3/06, article page at www.lightingwizards.com
“MH vs. Fluorescent – 10 Rounds in the Hibay Arena”, 3/06, article page at www.lightingwizards.com
“Gap Between Marketing Hype and Best Practice”, 9/05 AEE WEEC Proceedings
“Hibay Lighting”, Campus Facility Maintenance, summer/05
“New Capabilities for Hibay Metal Halide Technology”, E Source, 1/05
 “Hibays – It’s all about the Details” Edison Report, www.edisonreport.com, 12/04
“3Rs Quarterly”, LD+A, 3/04, 6/04, 9/04, 12/04
“Hibays – It’s all about the Details” DOE’s Rebuild America website, www.rebuild.org, 1 /04
Codes and Standards Enhancement Initiative for PY2004: Title 20 Standards Development, for PG&E for California Energy Commission, 03 - 04
“Metal Halide Lamps & Fixtures”
“Retrofit/Upgrade Quarterly”, LD+A, 9/02, 12/02, 3/03, 6/03, 9/03, 12/03
“Cutting Edge Retrofitting, Relighting & Redesigning”, Energy & High Performance Facility Sourcebook, proceedings of the 2003 World Energy Engineering Congress
“So Watt If Already T8s”, published as “Watt’s the Word on T8 Retrofits?” Energy User News, 4/03
“Follow The Money”, LD+A, 8/02
“Essay by Invitation” (a.k.a. Penny Wise and Dollar Foolish”, LD+A, 7/02
“Essay by Invitation” (a.k.a. Hibays, Hibays, Hibays), LD+A, 2/02
“IESNA Guidelines for Retrofitting Lighting Systems in Commercial & Institutional Spaces”
“Sight and cent-savers tips for seniors”, Alameda Journal, 9/26/01
“Why Should the Customer Have to Pay Twice”, LD+A, 9/01
“Essay by Invitation” (a.k.a. The Case for T5HO Hibays), LD+A, 6/01
“Essay by Invitation”, LD+A, 9/00
“Essay by Invitation” (a.k.a. HIDon’t), LD+A, 4/99
“Comparing Fluorescent and HID”, Energy User News, 9/98
“Essay by Invitation”, LD+A, 11/97
“The T8 Advantage”, LD+A, 7/97

 


Contributor to papers

California Title 20 Appliance Standard Reports, present to 2004, by ACEEE & Energy Solutions for PG&E for California Energy Commission
T8 and T12 lamps, ballasts and fixtures
MH lamps, ballasts and fixtures
Under Cabinet Fluorescent Fixtures Attached to Office Furniture
BR, ER & R20 Incandescent Lamps
“Spectrally Enhanced Lighting Program Implementation for Energy Savings: Economics Validation Study”, by B. Liebel, R. Lee, S. Berman & M. Fountain, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Building Technology Program, 06 “Energy Conservation Using Scotopically Enhanced Lighting In An Office Environment”, by Brian Liebel and Rita Lee of AfterImage+Space, DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory, 04 CEE High Performance Commercial Lighting Systems Initiative”, by Center for Energy and Environment, 04 “Controlling Lights the DALI Way”, by Ira Krepchin and Kristi Kamm, E-Source, 04 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Reports, 03 – 04
Daylight harvesting and re-retrofit for Knox Library at Monterey Navy Post Graduate School
LPS to T5HO retrofit of street pole fixtures at Socal military base
HPS and probe start MH to electronically ballasted pulse start MH hibays at Socal military base
“Super T8s: Super Lamps, Super Ballasts”, by Robert Sardinksky and Jim Benya, E Source, 03

 

Certifications

NCQLP - LC  (National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions - Lighting Certified)
AEE - CLEP  (Association of Energy Engineers - Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional)
IES - CTK  (Illuminating Engineering Society - Certificate of Technical Knowledge)
EPA Green Lights - Surveyor Ally  (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

 

Associations

IESNA (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America)
CALEP (California Association of Lighting Efficiency Professionals), Cofounder

 

Committees

IESNA Energy Management Lighting Committee Board Member, 5/99 – 9/05
IESNA Retrofit/Upgrade Subcommittee Chairman, 5/99 – 4/03
IESNA Retrofit/Upgrade Subcommittee Board Member, 4/03 - present
IESNA Golden Gate Section Board Member, 7/99 - 6/00
The Lighting Forum Golden Gate Section Board Member, 6/00 – 6/02

 

Awards

Lighting Efficiency Advocate of the Year – S.F. Chapter of AEE, 11/01
One International Illumination Design Award - EPRI, 2/00
Two International Illumination Design Awards - EPRI, 2/99

 


Employment in Lighting

Alamo Lighting, distribution, maintenance and retrofit contracting, 1989 - 2000
Sun Industries/Sun Energy Solutions, design and build retrofit contracting
Full time, 2000 - 2002
Consultant on retainer, 2003 – August 2004
Lighting Wizards, principal of independent consulting firm, 2003 – present, including
U.S. Department of Energy research on spectrally enhanced lighting, assisting Brian Liebel, 2003 - present
Several 3rd party energy efficient programs, including Right Lights and Smart Lights, 2004 - present
California Energy Commission’s Title 20 Appliance Standard, for PG&E through Energy Solutions, 2004 - present
Project manager for California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research, through California Lighting Technology Center, 2005 – present
Clientele list and testimonials available at www.lightingwizards.com

 

Education, formal

Bachelors in psychology from Southern Illinois University
Masters in oriental philosophy from Goddard College
Thesis on how Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism relate to the Tai Chi Classics.  

 

 


Contact info                                                                            

Stan Walerczyk (wall-er-check)

149 Camino Posada

Walnut Creek, CA 94595

925-944-9481(phone and fax)

stan@lightingwizards.com  

www.lightingwizards.com

   

July 1, 2007