38 Adella Ave.
West Newton, MA
USA 02465
Email: JimHorwitz@comcast.net
Biographical Sketch:
- Jim is a graduate of Caltech in math, with coursework in applied mechanics, inorganic chemistry, statistics, advanced probability, decision, inference and stochastic processes, thermodynamics, and two years of Feynman Physics. He continued on to U. of Michigan Business School and Rackham Graduate School studying Actuarial Science and Mathematics.
- In 1980, he created Binary Systems, Inc., a successful software and database development firm. In that capacity, he has been a long-term technical consultant for KeySpan Energy Delivery, the largest natural gas supplier in the Northeast US (Now National Grid).
- In 2000, he altered career focus toward socially responsible issues concerning climate change and energy. Jim co-authored the three-year EPA-funded CLIMB (Climate’s Long-Term Impact on Metropolitan Boston) Study. The Conservation Law Foundation handled the public release of the study in February 15, 2005 to coincide with the international ratification of the Kyoto Protocol: New Study Shows Dramatic Global Warming Impacts on Boston.
- Jim joined Emerging Energy Research, Cambridge, MA, in 2005 as consulting Senior Analyst leading the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Advisory Service. With EER, he has produced numerous short publications and market studies on the global fuel cell industry, with overall focus on global commercialization of fuel cell technology. He has recently completed consulting projects on high temperature PEM and the Asian microCHP market.
- He has delivered presentations at Fuel Cell 2006 in Raleigh-Durham, the 2006 Fuel Cell Seminar in Honolulu, the NHA Annual Hydrogen Conference in San Antonio, and the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Conference in Vancouver. He was featured at the Fuel Cell 2007 conference in Rochester, NY, delivering the Keynote Presentation. He presented again last year’s Fuel Cell Seminar on the key role of thermal management in fuel cell systems, and in Long Beach in June 2008 he presented on small SOFC technologies.