Ted Flanigan is the Director of Rural Electrification for Pacific Clean Energy Partners. He brings decades of program design and implementation experience to efficient and effective electrification programs. Ted has travelled, learned, lectured, and consulted extensively on smart energy management across the United States and in many countries. He has dedicated his career to celebrating and advocating smart and responsible energy management.

For the past 16 years, Ted has been at the helm of EcoMotion, an energy and environmental consulting company whose mission is “the cost-effective greening of cities, corporations, and campuses.” EcoMotion specializes in energy, in particular solar technologies. Clients range from the Los Angeles Metro to the City of Santa Monica and school districts in Northern and Southern California. Services include feasibility analysis, procurement support, project oversight, and monitoring. EcoMotion also provides storage solutions, microgrid development, and EV integration. 

Ted worked for the International Monetary Fund of The World Bank group on a seven-country market transformation project. The Efficient Lighting Initiative was designed to leap-frog lighting technologies in Asian, African, and South American countries; Ted headed up the initiative in the Philippines. For many Filipinos, the program introduced the first sources of “artificial light.” Ted was later Managing Director of The Energy Coalition, a Los Angeles-based non-profit that specializes in targeted efficiency initiatives. During his tenure there, Ted helped expand the Coalition’s operations to San Francisco and Chicago.

Ted was a Strategic Planner for the New York Power Authority before moving to Colorado to work at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in the late 1980s under the tutelage of the Institute’s founder Amory Lovins. Ted was RMI’s first Energy Program Director and founded Competitek, an efficiency service that documented available energy efficiency products and technologies. Ted was also in the original consulting team for ICLEI’s Urban CO2 Reduction Project, developing greenhouse gas inventories and linking strategies, policies, and programs for major North American and European cities from Portland to Helsinki. 

In 1990, Ted was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to document successful energy efficiency programs in North America, Europe, and Asia. In 1998, he moved to California to serve as Director of Energy Efficiency for the City of Los Angeles. He developed programs and services, enabled financing, and provided project oversight for 120,000 businesses, 4 million people, 24 universities, 3 oil refineries, airports, and stadiums. Under his watch, ~50,000 low-income apartments were retrofitted with energy and water efficiency measures in one year.