Jesse Row is the Executive Director of the Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance. In this role, Jesse leads the organizations’s efforts to increase energy efficiency in the province.
Jesse’s past experience includes time as the Vice President of Corporate Performance at Energy Efficieny Alberta (EEA) – a provincial agency tasked with delivering energy efficiency programs in the province. During this time, EEA supported projects that deliver more than $800 million of energy savings and emissions reductions for Albertans and Alberta businesses.
Jesse was also involved in starting up the Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance and was its first Executive Director from 2007-2017. During this time, the AEEA steadily increased in membership and event attendance, and successfully advocated for provincial policy initiatives such as the adoption of leading national standards into the Alberta Building Code, the creation of new energy efficiency programs in the province, and enabling property tied financing for energy efficiency upgrades.
Jesse has served on the Board of the Calgary Region Airshed Zone and the Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance; was Chair of the imagineCalgary Partnership steering committee, a member of the Province’s Energy Efficiency Advisory Panel, and an Energy Futures Labs Fellow; and is the author of chapters on the history og energy efficiency in Alberta for the Canadian Energy Efficiency Outlook: A National Effort for Tackling climate Change and Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency.