Isaac Panzarella is director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Southeast Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership (CHP TAP), located at North Carolina State University and serving the eight states of AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC and TN. Panzarella has a mechanical engineering degree from NCSU, where he works as Assistant Director at the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center in Raleigh, overseeing technical services for projects involving CHP, microgrids, renewable energy, energy storage and energy efficiency.