Albert Nunez has more than 35 years of technical experience in the solar energy and energy/water conservation/efficiency field with a strong capability to work with public and private institutions. His career has included hundreds of energy-related educational and consulting assignments for public service institutions, business, government and consumers. He holds leadership positions in national solar energy organizations and has a powerful personal network of contacts with private industry, state, and local government, utility companies and public service and environmental institutions. He chairs the Customer Advisory and Dispute Resolving Board for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC).
A cofounder of Capital Sun Group in January 1997, he is a director and chief project leader for solar thermal and PV power system design and integration. He is currently conducting a service contract for the Department of Homeland Security to maintain water source heat pump systems like those employed for geothermal heating and cooling for the security stations at the White House. In 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy sent Mr. Nunez to the South Pole and McMurdo Bay station to conduct a comprehensive renewable energy assessment of the facilities. He has also consulted to renewable energy project development companies, and recently designed a large geothermal system for a large winery in Virginia and a 1.0 MW ground mount PV system with trackers for a proposal to the U.S. Coast Guard in California.
Mr. Nunez is the technical head overseeing design and installation of residential and commercial solar energy systems. He also invented developed of innovative hybrid PV/Thermal system the generates electricity and heats water from the same roof space using a fully integrated collector system. Significant projects include 25.9 kW grid tied photovoltaic array for the General Service Administration Federal Drug Administration Federal Research Center at White Oak, MD completed in 2004. He supervised solar evacuated tube water heating systems for the Social Security Administration North Eastern Regional Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA the Pentagon, Arlington, VA and the Department of Health and Human Services. Starting in 2005 he has worked as a consultant to Skybuilt Power to design and fabricate self-contained hybrid PV and wind power systems for the In-Q-Tel, the corporate R&D arm of the Central Intelligence Agency and a trailer based mobile power system for the U.S. Army. These systems range in size from 1500 to 5,000 Watts continuous power output and include everything packaged in a 20 foot shipping container or on a 1.5 ton military trailer.
Mr. Nunez was the site logistics coordinator and on-site operations chief for 25 kWp SAIC/STM solar thermal power plant demonstration project at the Pentagon Heating and Cooling Plant 1999, PV Project development and installation coordinator for numerous Maryland Energy Administration grant funded residential PV grid tied power systems ranging in size from 500 Wp to 4.0 kWp. Mr. Nunez has carried out a vast number of solar energy assessment and analytical projects for a variety of customers. He joined the CCAN board in 2004.