Tom Kabat

Tom Kabat is a mechanical engineer with more than 40 years’ experience in hands-on building science, utility program design, implementation, and utility resource planning. Tom partners with others in electrification design projects for dozens of homes, co-authoring guides to electrification, developing a Power Efficient Design practice aka “Watt Diet” technique for making electrification of buildings easier without upsizing the electric panel. He does contractor training in power efficient design for TECH Clean CA program events and for Electrify My Home TECH contractor cohort trainings. He co-developed a popular PG&E online video class on electrifying without upsizing the electric panel. He co-authored SB 68 legislation to have the CEC develop a site and content on power efficient design. He serves on the board of SunWork.org where he helps install heat pump water heaters and solar PV while training volunteers.

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