Jim Kelsey

Jim Kelsey founded kW Engineering in 1998 to follow his passion for finding innovative and reliable ways to save energy in buildings. He is an active technical contributor and led the development of the ASHRAE’s Procedures for Commercial Building Energy Audits. Jim has developed tools to model commercial refrigeration systems and psychrometrics, teaches courses on energy auditing for PG&E’s Pacific Energy Center and chaired the development of ASHRAE’s Standard 211 on Energy Audits for Commercial Buildings. Jim has a degree in physics and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin’s Solar Energy Lab. Currently he is working on using technology to make commissioning grocery stores cheaper, faster and better and researching market trends in low-GWP refrigeration strategies.