Bruce Odegaard
Community Ambassador Energy Program
Bruce Odegaard is a volunteer working with the Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) of Minnesota in their Community Energy Ambassador program. Bruce's presentation will cover some of the tax credits and purchase rebates made available to individuals, businesses and non-profits through the Inflation Reduction Act as well as additional incentives from the Minnesota State Legislature and from utilities.
Bruce is a biochemist who got interested in clean energy in the energy crisis of the 1970s. His Ph.D. work focused on enzymes that can break down cellulose to glucose to provide a feedstock for ethanol production. After graduate school Bruce worked as a biochemist in the diagnostics industry. His interest in clean energy was renewed in the early 2000's while taking a short course on the subject at Hamline University. Now in his retirement, Bruce is looking for ways to make the future of the world better for his children and grandchildren. Spreading the word about the use of clean energy incentives to fight climate change seems to him a good way of doing that.