but he worked for naseo from 1996 through 2004 and then became naseo's executive director in 2008. what is important, i think, to particularly understand about the national association of state energy officials is that this embraces 56 state and territory energy offices naseo communicates state policy views on virtually all national energy issues which cover everything from natural gas and electricity to buildings energy efficiency, renewable energy, industrial energy efficiency energy emergency response and assurance reliability as well as energy technology innovation is and, of course, all of this is it's almost always tied to also being very concerned about how this affects states' economic development. david? >> thank you carol. i appreciate the introduction and i have to thank eesi, carol's organization, for hosting today's briefing and always for their excellent work. i am somewhat biased as a board member of eesi, but i think you all know their excellent work well so thank you very much. .. we always are concerned of economic development impacts so that's a helpful part of o

we have also been working on at naseo compliance case studies. so typically beyond the rapare program, in the state energy offices about how they implement energy in buildings. so by way of comparison, there's about a $7 billion a year market adjustment in public buildings that's almost all privately financed. so it's an amazing opportunity. and i certainly am planning sessions we have coming up at our meetings. as i mentioned, we're working closely on no-redepret options and broadly to help meet state energy and their goals. i think one in particular worth noting, we have a multistate tracking program going on in the public investment area and trying to see where we can streamline activities in that -- the amount of investment return and the amount of benefit to the taxpayer and energy savings and so forth. we also have a similar project with the state of texas and other organizations looking at energy building code compliance so existing codes on the books and what kinds of emissions reductions coming from that. so they are capturing existing p