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Stephen D. Shelton
Executive Director
Louisiana CleanTech Network

As a co-founder and Executive Director of the Louisiana CleanTech Network (LCTN), Stephen has been working to organize the LCTN since January 2007. What started as an idea to have a local New Orleans based Renewable Energy Industry organization grew to the LCTN. Over the last two years Mr. Shelton has been working with local and state government, NGO's, electrical utilities, Green Building and Renewable Energy companies to develop a Clean Technology and Renewable Energy industry in the state of Louisiana.

Stephen's first effort, as the director of LCTN, in January 2007 was to recruit and organized a team of local New Orleans organizations to assist the City of New Orleans' Office of Recovery Management in applying for the DOE Solar America Initiative, Solar Cities grant. In June 2007 the City of New Orleans was selected as one of twenty five Solar America Cities by the DOE. LCTN now works with those same non-profits and companies - Green Coast Enterprises, Alliance for Affordable Energy, Global Green, and Futureproof to support the New Orleans Office of Recovery Management as recipients of the DOE SAC New Orleans grant.

Mr. Shelton is a principal in ADVEN, LLC a New Orleans based company with offices in New Orleans and Austin, TX. ADVEN, LLC focuses on advanced energy strategies and services that offer sustainable technology-based solutions for the purpose of achieving lower energy cost for a wide range of clients in the public and private sectors.

Stephen is also the president and co-founder of the Southern Building Institute, a non-profit Louisiana corporation with a focus on high performance, sustainable, and energy efficient buildings in the Gulf South. Stephen worked closely with four local area green building and energy efficiency professionals to form this research based company.

Stephen worked in the Information Technology industry since 1990 in a variety of positions including Sales Executive, Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, and most recently as an Information Technology Consultant. Mr Shelton decided in October of 2006 as a result of the aftermath of the the destruction of much of our state and the Gulf South from Katrina and Rita to return to the industry that he left in 1985.

As the owner of a New Orleans company, Elemental Energy Systems Company (EESCO), from 1977-1985, Stephen worked in the construction industry to teach, promote, train, manufacture, and perform the installation of Energy Efficient technologies in Louisiana, including:
radiant barrier systems, exterior sealed vapor barrier wrap with incorporated drainage planes, air infiltration sealing, correctly-sized AC systems, geothermal HVAC systems, reflective roof surfaces, solar thermal systems, gas instantaneous and solar hot water heaters, natural daylighting systems, heat reflecting window films, and advance thermostatic and energy management control systems.

In 1983 Stephen designed, built and implemented a computerized monitoring system for HVAC equipment. Overall HVAC system performance, run time, and cycling frequency was monitored using software that he developed to calculate the Energy Efficiency Ratio (EER) and Sensible Heat Ratio (SHR) of HVAC systems with input from multiple temperature sensor locations in conjunction with current weather data. This HVAC monitoring system was used by Mr. Shelton to perform research on HVAC system efficiency and effectiveness of controlling indoor comfort conditions in hot humid climates such as New Orleans and the Gulf South.

Stephen presented lectures to the New Orleans Home Building Association, as a member of the Energy Efficiency Committee, and the Louisiana Solar Design Association, as a Board of Director, on residential and light commercial building methods, materials, and mechanical systems with a focus on reduced energy usage and increased indoor comfort.

Stephen has been a life long resident of New Orleans and currently resides in Kenner, La.

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