Scott Sklar
Scott Sklar serves as President of The Stella Group, Ltd. founded in 1995. The firm’s specialty is to assist emerging distributed power clean energy companies in developing strategic partnerships, to attract capital, and build marketshare. Stella Group also advises federal, state, and local governments in the creation of public policies to promote use of advanced batteries and controls, concentrating solar power, energy efficiency, fuel cells, heat engines, microgeneration, modular biomass, photovoltaics, and small wind.
Sklar served as Executive Director of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade organization of the solar industry, since 1986. Concurrently, he served as Executive Director of the National BioEnergy Industries Association (NBIA), the trade association of the biomass-to-electric industry, also since 1986, as well as founder and Executive Director (1991-94) of the renewable energy trade association export consortium.
Prior, he served for two years as Political Director of the Solar Lobby, the non-profit renewable energy advocacy group founded by the nine major national environmental organizations.
Before joining The Lobby, he served first for two years as Washington Director of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), a non-profit applied renewable energy and energy efficiency research organization founded by Congress. For one year he served as Acting R&D Director at the national headquarters in Montana overseeing a 60 person technical staff.
Sklar began his energy career as an aide to Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY) where he served on both personal and committee staff for nine years, as well as Assistant Director of the Senator’s successful 1974 re-election campaign. During his Congressional tenure, Sklar cofounded The Congressional Solar Coalition, which helped to drive much of the founding legislation promoting clean energy technologies.
He has co-authored two energy books: The Forbidden Fuel published in 1985 and The Consumers Guide to Solar Energy published in 1996 and republished in 1998 and 2002.
He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Export Council for Energy Efficiency, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the Renewable Energy Policy Project, and the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council.
Sklar lives in Arlington, Virginia in a home with passive solar features, a solar water heater, and photovoltaics – as well as solar space heating for a free-standing greenhouse. His 9 year old daughter Stella assists her dad in his lobbying and advocacy agenda.