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Staff Biography for Christine Brinker

Christine Hurley Brinker is a Program Associate with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), where she specializes in recycled energy and industrial energy efficiency.

Ms. Brinker has worked in the field of recycled energy and industrial energy efficiency for 10 years. She has helped run the U.S. DOE Intermountain Clean Energy Application Center, jointly managed by SWEEP and the ETC Group, since its founding in 2004. The center aims to increase the efficiency of energy generation and use by promoting greater adoption of recycled energy—capturing energy that is normally wasted and using it to produce additional, locally-generated clean electricity and heat. Energy recycling includes such long-established methods as combined heat and power, district energy, and waste heat recovery. Christine’s work focuses on policy analysis and policy reform to allow greater use of recycled energy, in addition to technical assistance, project support, and regional education.

As well as her work on recycled energy, Christine helps with education and outreach for the Colorado Industrial Energy Challenge at SWEEP.

Before joining SWEEP, she worked for six years at E Source, where she advised over 100 international electric and gas utilities, manufacturers, large energy users, and government labs about combined heat and power and distributed generation strategies, market trends, new technology advancements, economics, environmental performance, and regulatory frameworks. She also managed Distributed Energy News, a bi-weekly newsletter about new CHP market developments and key players.

Christine has been published in Cogeneration and Onsite Power Production magazine, Energy Business and Technology magazine, Powerline magazine, and the engineering textbook Micro Energy Systems: Review of Technology, Issues of Scale and Integration, in addition to authoring many E Source reports and analyses.

Christine graduated summa cum laude with distinction from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BA in both economics and environmental studies. Her economics honors thesis evaluated the costs and environmental externalities of commercial-sector distributed generation.

  

Christine Brinker