January, 2007 through December, 2008

Chair - James M. Bing, PE

James Bing is the founder and president of New Energy Options, Inc.  He is a professional electrical engineer with registrations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.  Over the past decade Mr. Bing has acted as the principal or supporting engineer on the design of numerous photovoltaic installations, ranging in size from hundreds of Watts to megawatts.  He has worked on installations in the Caribbean, Philippines, Mexico and throughout the US.  Since starting New Energy Options in 2001, Mr. Bing has provided electrical power system design, system inspection and interconnection services, data acquisition and monitoring, and protective relay design and programming to the photovoltaic industry.  Included in New energy Options’ portfolio are several high profile PV projects, such as the recently completed 200 kW BIPV Stillwell Avenue Subway Terminal in Brooklyn, NY and a combined 36 kW multi-system BIV installation on the 38-story Solaire building in lower Manhattan. His research interests include PV energy production forecasting and deregulated electricity market design

Prior to entering in the photovoltaic industry Mr. Bing was employed by the R&D firm of Bolt Beranek and Newman as a staff engineer working on data acquisition and sensor systems.  Mr. Bing holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, as well as a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.  Mr. Bing has been active with the Resource Applications Division for several years and currently serves as its chair.
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Vice-Chair - AJ Rossman

Mr. Rossman is a data acquisition expert and practicing solar engineer.  He has an extensive background in field instrumentation and remote data acquisition, and has been involved with the renewable energy industry for nearly ten years now.  His company, Draker SolarDesign, has provided product and services to the industry for the last six years and has recently become a Campbell Scientific OEM.  Draker SolarDesign provides performance monitoring systems for PV, solar thermal, passive solar, wind and other green technologies, and is currently monitoring several 200 kW PV systems in California as well as demonstration wind and solar projects nationwide.

He has Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Electrical Engineering.  He also has earned Master’s Degrees in Geology and Environmental Science and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Vermont.  His dissertation involves numerical simulation for the optimization hybrid PV / wind systems.  He has taught a renewable energy engineering course for the last four years and led a class to Akumal, Mexico where students learned about solar design and constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment. His hobbies include making sustainable technologies work in his house with his wife Kathy, two sons Seth and Micah and dog Drake.
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Newsletter Editor - Frank Vignola
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