Biographical Sketch

KENNETH J. KOGUT, Ph.D., P.E., CEM, GBE, CSDP
PRESIDENT
KENNETH J. KOGUT & ASSOCIATES

Mr. Kogut, of Kenneth J. Kogut & Associates, maintains a professional energy and management consulting practice serving clients in the commercial, industrial, institutional, and governmental sectors.  Through the efforts of Mr. Kogut, his organization, established in 1979, has provided professional energy consulting services in the areas of energy audits and the development and implementation of energy management programs, systems, and environmental endeavors, for his organization’s clientele.  Mr. Kogut has been actively involved in the energy field in the capacities of designing, developing, managing, and implementing energy management programs, building energy systems, energy conservation projects, solar system evaluations, building energy certification and benchmarking, and environmental programs for over forty years. He has also been involved with various matching energy grant programs for the education sector, since 1979.  Mr. Kogut has also been involved with direct electric and gas energy purchase reviews, and forecasting/evaluation, since the inception of deregulation of the gas industry in 1983, along with the evolving electric utilities industry.  On a national basis, Mr. Kogut has completed publications for the Bank Administration Institute (BAI), 7,000 Community member banks, and energy management manuals for G. D. Searle’s worldwide operations. Mr. Kogut has accomplished energy reviews and assessments for the organization’s clientele across the North American continent, Canada, and Puerto Rico. He has also been involved in energy activities and professional association activities in western and northern Europe, Spain, Portugal, and northern Africa.  Prior to the establishment of his organization, Mr. Kogut assisted in developing testimony to the Washington, D.C. Public Service Commission in one of the first time-of-day rate cases in the country.  Mr. Kogut was also involved in the development of one of the first electric rate structures for the eastern part of Saudi Arabia.  He additionally has consulted to various electric and gas utilities in aspects of utility operations, and, as a consulting engineer was responsible for technological forecasting and development of electric usage rate structures, and feasibility studies associated with state-of-the-art and advanced energy systems for the electric utility industry.  Mr. Kogut has published a number of papers on the subject of energy, is a registered professional Engineer (P.E.) in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Utah, Missouri, and Wisconsin, Certified Energy Manager (CEM), Green Building Engineering (GBE), Certified Sustainable Design Professional (CSDP), and a certified instructor with the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA).  Mr. Kogut has also authored a book entitled Words to Live By, focusing on words, thoughts, and subjects in life.  He presently holds active memberships in the Association of Energy engineers (President: Chicago-1985, Illiana-1990-1993, Region III V.P. – 1993-1995, Int’l Pres.-1998), Environmental Engineers & Managers Institute of AEE, the Energy Services Marketing Society of AEE, and both the Illinois and National Societies of Professional Engineers.  Mr. Kogut is also currently listed in several Who’s Who, including Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.  He is a recipient of the President’s Award in Energy Efficiency from the President’s Council for Energy Efficiency, the Corporate Energy Management Award for the Chicago Metropolitan Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers, the Energy Professional Development Award and Regional Energy Engineers of the Year Award for the Association of Energy Engineers, the Energy Management Executive of the Year – AEE Illiana, and the Illinois Energy Award from the Governor of Illinois.  In 2002, Mr. Kogut was inducted into the AEE Energy Managers’ Hall of Fame.  Mr. Kogut holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (BME) and a Master of Engineering (ME) degree from the University of Detroit, and a Ph.D. from Lacrosse University in Engineering Management.  In addition, he also was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow while at the University of Detroit.

Social and Community endeavors, in which Mr. Kogut is associated with, include  S.O.S America (Service Over Self)-Board Member, former USNR, and additional assistance provided to various community organizations.