The NESEA community mourns the passing of Joel Gordes on June 16, 2024. Joel was a NESEA Board and longtime Member and the recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Service Award for his work with the NESEA Board of Directors.  Joel authored numerous papers, studies and articles on distributed generation, including how decentralized energy can be used to provide power for mission-critical, high-value applications for energy security. He worked in research, design and sales of active and passive solar technologies as well as on policy issues such as Connecticut's first climate change legislation in 1990 when he was a State Representative.

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