About Us
There’s no substitute for experience
GCC takes a holistic approach with every project to advance the NY “renewable energy state of mind.”
Our clients are homeowners, renewable energy companies, and governmental bodies & schools. We consult on new builds as well as retrofits…because it all matters.
GCC is partnering with Total Vision, whose principal, Peter Hellermann, brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in startups, strategic planning, marketing, public relations, and project management.
Billii and Peter have training, presentation, and event hosting experience. GCC also augments its services with a range of local associate consultants of various expertise offering you a great team to further your renewable energy goals and activities.
Our consultants work with consumers, utilities, corporations, trade associations, state and local governments and agencies in energy-related programs to focus our clients’ objectives.
Principals
Billii Roberti
Founder, President & CEO, Green Choices Consulting
Bllii is an IGSHPA* Accredited Installer, with 12 years’ experience in geothermal and air source heat pumps and solar photovoltaics (PV). She is a founding member of NY-GEO (the New York Geothermal Energy Organization) and works with property owners, commercial realtor trade associations, NYSERDA (the NYS Energy Research and Development Authority), local governments, state legislators, and the public. Until recently she worked on state energy policy with nonprofit renewable energy advocacy organizations (especially Renewable Heat Now) and remains allied with them. Billii has written for Renewable Energy World on the combination of solar and geothermal heat pumps. Billii has also been an appointee to Town of Huntington ACEERS** since 2011 and a member of the Town’s Climate Smart Community Task Force. She has a background in the scientific method and holds a BA in psychology.
*International Ground Source Heat Pump Association
**Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency, Renewables, and Sustainability
Peter Hellermann
Founder, Principal at Total Vision
Peter has 25 years’ business experience including strategy, brand creation, market research, public relations, project management, consortia, and community engagement in the renewable energy and transportation markets. He was a co-founder, corporate officer, and board member of ITS-NY (Intelligent Transportation Systems). He is an appointee to the Town of Huntington ACEERS** since 2013 and a member of the Town’s Climate Smart Community Task Force. Peter holds a BS, MBA.
**Town of Huntington, NY, Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency, Renewables, and Sustainability
Associates
Ira Zucker
GREEN-certified Real Estate Services President of the New York State Commercial Association of Realtors (NYSCAR)-NYC/LI Chapter
Ira is a licensed salesperson at Signal Realty Brokers, Inc., with 18 years’ in commercial real estate sales. He is knowledgeable about renewables and experienced in investment properties, closing complex real estate transactions, and project management. He is a past president of the Long Island Commercial Network.
Affiliations
Town of Huntington, NY, Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency, Renewables, and Sustainability (This Climate Smart Communities Task Force earned Huntington a Bronze CSC certification)
New York Geothermal Energy Organization
and other grassroots environment and climate advocacy groups
More about the founder of Green Choices Consulting
GCC founder Billi Roberti embraced the “renewable energy state of mind long before she and Ira Zucker completed a total green gut rehab of their Huntington Station, NY home. It was rebuilt to ENERGY STAR® and LEED standards in 2010. They weatherized it, and installed ENERGY STAR® appliances, rooftop solar, and a geothermal heat pump system. They charge their electric vehicle at home and recently bought a heat pump clothes dryer.
As a result of her research and renovation experience, Billii became a founding member of the New York Geothermal Energy Organization, was appointed to the Town of Huntington Advisory Committee on Energy Efficiency, Renewables and Sustainability (ACEERS), and started Green Choices Consulting in 2012. She is currently a member of NY-GEO’s Policy Advisory Board.
Her renewable energy advocacy includes working with the Renewable Heat Now campaign to successfully pass state legislation for establishing geothermal heat pump income tax credits, for modernizing building codes and appliance standards to improve energy efficiency, for developing utility thermal energy networks, and for initiating new all-electric construction in 2026. Currently, she is lobbying as a volunteer with Renewable Heat Now for the NY Home Energy Affordable Transition (HEAT) Act (S2016A/A4592A) to end natural gas expansion subsidies and to plan for an equitable transition off gas.
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