wratterman@SunEnergyPower.com
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Walt Ratterman (Chief Project Officer & Director), age 56, was Senior
Vice President for projects with Foley Electric, Inc. (one of America’s largest
electrical contractors) for fifteen years. He subsequently founded TRC
Electrical Construction Services, a commercial electrical contracting firm
installing solar PV systems in Pennsylvania and Maryland. In 2003 Walt was
one of the first PV installers to pass the rigorous North American Board of
Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) certification exam. He earned a
Master of Science degree in Renewable Energy from Murdoch University in
Australia, and has extensive renewable energy design and installation
experience internationally.
Walt’s hands-on PV experience includes residential and commercial PV installations
in the eastern U.S., as well as rural solar PV installations in Nicaragua, the
Galapagos Islands, southern Ecuador, Peru, Arunachal Pradesh in India, Burma,
Thailand, and Rwanda with NGO organizations such as Solar Energy International
(www.solarenergy.org),
Knightsbridge International (www.kbi.org),
and Green Empowerment
(www.greenempowerment.org)
where he was Program Director. A Commissioner of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation
(www.tzuchi.org),
Walt has participated in humanitarian relief efforts in other diverse developing
nations including Afghanistan, southern Philippines, and Cambodia
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