Working from offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and across the U.S., Cliburn and Associates, LLC, offers highly regarded expertise in renewable energy, load management and energy efficiency-related planning, program design, procurement support, stakeholder engagement and policy. This includes a focus on solar and solar plus storage or load flexibility on either side of the meter. Community impacts are always in scope, as well, whether the resource is sited locally or on the wholesale grid.
Cliburn and Associates operates as an informal collective, led by Jill Cliburn and calling upon other top experts to form work teams suited to particular project needs. The associates list includes an extraordinary number of nationally known experts. In addition, the firm has ready access to technical research assistance, graphic design, and editorial support. This is an increasingly popular way for consultants to work today, but it has been our strategy since our beginning.
Early in her career, Jill was Illinois’ first State Solar Office Coordinator, working to initiate the state’s fledgling solar business networks, standards, and incentives. Subsequently, she managed energy services for a mid-sized municipal electric and water utility in Springfield, Illinois, and she coordinated Energy Services Program efforts for American Public Power Association in Washington, DC. From that post, she spearheaded energy services and renewable energy technical assistance for both public power utilities and electric cooperatives, especially across the West. She provided consulting support, training and market-development research for the Western Area Power Administration, as well as for groups: the NRECA, APPA, Edison Electric Institute, the Association for Energy Services Professionals, Solar Electric Power Association (now SEPA). She also supported major consulting firms on specialized projects: Lockheed Martin, DNV (KEMA) and CH2M Hill, among others. Over 20 years, Cliburn contributed dozens of feature stories and technical commentaries to trade press magazines.
As work took her to New Mexico, Jill was appropriately enchanted and determined to establish a home base there. She has provided policy support to the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, New Mexico Conference of Churches and regulatory processes. She also helped to bring significantly scaled solar to New Mexico at the Buckman Direct Diversion Project, a city/county water plant. In 2015, she became Principal Investigator for the Community Solar Value Project, a multi-year effort co-funded by the U.S. DOE and managed by the Bay-area consultancy, Extensible Energy, with primary partners Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and PNM New Mexico. After that Project's culmination, Cliburn and Associates supported community solar procurement and program design by three public power utilities and two electric co-ops, plus one of the first solar plus storage projects in the U.S., a partnership between a municipal utility and its wholesale supplier.
Increasingly, Jill has contributed to new efforts, too, to broaden participation and leadership in a new, massive clean energy transformation. She serves on the board of Solar Energy International and remains active as a Fellow in the American Solar Energy Society.
Cliburn and Associates operates as an informal collective, led by Jill Cliburn and calling upon other top experts to form work teams suited to particular project needs. The associates list includes an extraordinary number of nationally known experts. In addition, the firm has ready access to technical research assistance, graphic design, and editorial support. This is an increasingly popular way for consultants to work today, but it has been our strategy since our beginning.
Early in her career, Jill was Illinois’ first State Solar Office Coordinator, working to initiate the state’s fledgling solar business networks, standards, and incentives. Subsequently, she managed energy services for a mid-sized municipal electric and water utility in Springfield, Illinois, and she coordinated Energy Services Program efforts for American Public Power Association in Washington, DC. From that post, she spearheaded energy services and renewable energy technical assistance for both public power utilities and electric cooperatives, especially across the West. She provided consulting support, training and market-development research for the Western Area Power Administration, as well as for groups: the NRECA, APPA, Edison Electric Institute, the Association for Energy Services Professionals, Solar Electric Power Association (now SEPA). She also supported major consulting firms on specialized projects: Lockheed Martin, DNV (KEMA) and CH2M Hill, among others. Over 20 years, Cliburn contributed dozens of feature stories and technical commentaries to trade press magazines.
As work took her to New Mexico, Jill was appropriately enchanted and determined to establish a home base there. She has provided policy support to the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, New Mexico Conference of Churches and regulatory processes. She also helped to bring significantly scaled solar to New Mexico at the Buckman Direct Diversion Project, a city/county water plant. In 2015, she became Principal Investigator for the Community Solar Value Project, a multi-year effort co-funded by the U.S. DOE and managed by the Bay-area consultancy, Extensible Energy, with primary partners Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and PNM New Mexico. After that Project's culmination, Cliburn and Associates supported community solar procurement and program design by three public power utilities and two electric co-ops, plus one of the first solar plus storage projects in the U.S., a partnership between a municipal utility and its wholesale supplier.
Increasingly, Jill has contributed to new efforts, too, to broaden participation and leadership in a new, massive clean energy transformation. She serves on the board of Solar Energy International and remains active as a Fellow in the American Solar Energy Society.