Arian Aghajanzadeh

The Energy Management Systems Team receives the R&D 100 Professional Team of the Year Award from R&D World for its ongoing international efforts to advance energy management business practices in the commercial, manufacturing, and institutional sectors. The team has collectively built on each other’s strengths to make a profound impact in their respective fields. By leveraging their diverse academic and personal backgrounds, the team has created a technical program that reaches people working in all sectors of the economy. The team has published international standards, conducted original research, delivered technical assistance to organizations globally, developed professional workforce certification programs, and partnered with private and public sector organizations to accelerate the deployment of energy management business practices. The team’s resources and practices have been adopted by tens of thousands of organizations worldwide, including large and small manufacturers, regional hospital groups, government agencies, schools and universities, and corporate and boutique hotel chains. To learn more about energy management system business practices, visit 50001Ready.lbl.gov.

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For research of barriers limiting adoption of ISO 50001 energy management business practices and development of the ISO 50001 energy and CO₂ impacts methodology, which resulted in national and corporate commitments at Clean Energy Ministerial meetings and national efficiency programs.

Scientific Engineering Associate Arian Aghajanzadeh, of the Building & Industrial Applications Department at Berkeley Lab, has been selected to participate in the highly competitive Clean Energy Leadership Institute's Fall 2017 Fellowship Training Program.

The Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) is a leadership development organization based in Washington, D.C. and the San Francisco Bay Area. CELI provides early career professionals with the technical content, leadership development and professional community to build the next generation of clean energy leaders. CELI recruits Fellows with diverse backgrounds and equips them with a strong working knowledge of energy markets, project finance, technology innovation and public policy, realized through the Clean Energy Leaders Fellowship program.

As a CELI Fellow,  Aghajanzadeh will be in a unique position to not only gain invaluable knowledge about the energy industry, but he will be able to network and forge new connections with diverse, effective, and innovative energy leaders of the future. There is a tremendous amount of activity happening in the energy field in the Bay Area, across the nation, and the world. Being part of the CELI community is one way to get exposure to those activities.

When asked what excites him about the fellowship Arian stated, “I want to be a point of connection, to spark collaboration between CELI fellows, the organizations that they represent, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.”