Obadiah Bartholomy is a Senior Project Manager in the Energy R&D group at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California. He leads their Climate Change and Energy Efficiency R&D programs. For climate change, this includes cap and trade implementation, climate policy development, GhG strategic planning, local climate action planning, mitigation technology evaluation, and carbon offset procurement. The energy efficiency program demonstrates and tests advanced lighting, cooling, whole building retrofit and zero net energy design, and solar technologies, moving towards mainstream zero net energy/peak/carbon buildings. Mr bartholomy also manages several solar related projects including solar forecasting and variability assessment, and high penetration PV evaluation and mitigation. He has a BS degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and an MS degree in transportation technology and policy from the University of California at Davis.