Scott Spielman leads the emerging technologies group at Ecotope with nearly a decade’s experience in product development, mechanical engineering, data analyses, and energy modeling. He now manages a team of engineers and data analysts to take bring new products to market to drive towards a greener economy. In this role he executes studies to assess new technologies, test product before demonstration projects, and designs demonstration projects with measurement and verification to assess new technologies. Ecotope’s emerging technologies team has played a key role market transformation towards central heat pump water heaters (HPWH). Scott has played a key role in defining how grid-interactivity can be included in central HPWH designs.