About LEI

Applying decades of efficiency leadership to today’s energy challenges

Livingston Energy Innovations (LEI) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based strategic consulting firm with expertise in demand-side management (DSM) solutions—including energy efficiency, demand response, and customer-facing smart grid applications.

LEI helps our clients develop, launch, and refine solutions harnessing the most abundant energy resource on earth: efficiency. We support solutions including products, services, and programs that save energy and provide other key benefits for our clients and their customers. 

Each LEI client engagement combines assessment, education, and strategy to identify and overcome obstacles to successful implementation. Bringing together stakeholders throughout the energy end-use ecosystem, we deliver exceptional outcomes that align market dynamics, business culture insights, and innovation management to enable wise energy use and enhance the bottom line.

Our clients include energy utilities, Federal power agencies, energy technology startups, Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, and research institutions.

The LEI team offers:

  • decades of experience in designing and delivering innovative, high-impact solutions
  • a comprehensive understanding of the energy end-use marketplace, and
  • a wide-reaching network of expertise for product, service, and program development.

LEI Team

Jonathan Livingston

President

Jonathan Livingston is a leading authority on demand-side management (DSM) and energy efficiency, and has achieved broad recognition as a thought leader and change agent. He has launched and guided numerous record-breaking energy efficiency initiatives, including California’s acclaimed statewide Energy Efficient Emerging Technologies Program. [Read more]

Mark Cwirko

Principal Project Manager

Mark Cwirko specializes in project management, process improvement, systems architecture, business process creation, and business requirements analysis. He has over 20 years’ experience successfully supervising and managing information management and solutions delivery at the intersection of IT and demand-side management. His past professional experience includes management roles at PG&E supporting the Marketing and Energy Efficiency departments, and a wide range of management and consulting roles at Autodesk and several high tech start-up firms.  Mark has worked with LEI since 2009.

Marie Narlock

Senior Project Manager

Marie Narlock has over 20 years’ experience in marketing communication and advertising, including three years’ experience developing communication materials, regulatory reporting, and managing public outreach for PG&E’s Emerging Technologies program. Prior to that assignment, Marie served as media director at Charles Schwab & Company for eight years. Marie has worked with LEI since 2009.