Understanding and Leveraging Energy Information to Achieve your 2026 Energy Management Goals | February 2026
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| Virtual |
| February 17, 2026 |
| 0.2 CEU |
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Webinar Description
A virtual webinar, held over 1 hour.
This impactful webinar will cover how to understand and leverage your energy information. Discussion topics include understanding energy, power, demand, apparent power, reactive power and how these can be leveraged for saving on utility bills. Also, other annual activities that should be part of managing an energy management program for successful achievement of annual goals will be covered. In addition to covering this information, the instructor will also cover other helpful hints to be successful in 2026.
About the Presenter
Mark Roche is Vice President for North America Customer Energy Efficiency Solutions at Alternative Energy Applications, with 37 years of experience across energy management, power generation, utilities, and regulatory activities. A former U.S. Navy officer and instructor, he has since held leadership roles in electric and gas utilities and has extensive expertise in DSM program development, grid management, and service delivery. Since 1998, he has been deeply involved in advancing energy education, serving as a Certified Energy Manager instructor, program leader, and course author on smart grid operations and business impacts.
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Mark Roche
Instructor
MARK R. ROCHE, C.E.M., B.E.P., C.D.S.M., C.E.P., C.E.A., is currently the Vice President for North America Customer Energy Efficiency Solutions for Alternative Energy Applications. He has 37 years of experience in Energy Management, Energy Delivery, Nuclear and Fossil Fuel Power Generation, Utility Marketing, Customer Service, and Electric and Gas Utility Regulatory Activities. Mark served in the US Navy for 12 years onboard two submarines in their Reactor Control Divisions and also was a Mathematics Instructor at the Naval Nuclear Power School. Since 1997 until the beginning of 2024, he served in several leadership roles with two investor-owned electric utilities and one gas utility. He has direct experience in leading electric and gas utility teams covering: Energy Management, Load Management, DSM Program Development and Execution, Distribution Power Quality, Field Operations, Distribution Control Center Operations, Meter Department Operations, Grid Management, Service Delivery, Revenue Assurance and Regulatory.
Mark has been very active in the energy management and DSM since leaving the Navy. In 1998 he developed and presented multiple courses on energy technology and management with a concentrated focus on how to implement effective energy management programs. In 1999 he was the President for the Tampa Association of Energy Engineers startup chapter and held the position of Region II Vice President. Mark has been a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) instructor since 2001 and has also served the CEM Program as Test Writer, Board Member and Ethics Committee Member since that time. Mark is the core instructor for two other courses for AEE, the Business Energy Professional (since 2003) and the Certified Demand Side Management Professional (since 2011) and also is the chairman of the Board for these programs. Mark currently also serves on the Certified Energy Auditor exam committee. In 2011, Mark authored two courses on “Operational Considerations for the Smart Grid” and “Business Impacts of the Smart Grid” for the National Energy Center of Excellence (NECE) for Bismarck State College.
Mark has a bachelor’s degree from Thomas Edison State College and has his master’s degree from Colorado State University.
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