James P. Sweeney is president of Cost Containment Inc., a project development firm specializing in within-the-fence cogeneration systems.  Alternate energy projects and merchant plants are more recent developments of the firm.
     Other areas of experience have been utility-sponsored energy- conservation projects, compressed natural gas and air technology, fuel cells, sewage and landfill methane energy projects, maintenance contracts as well as financing, owning and maintaining energy facilities for interested parties.
     Sweeney earned a degree in economics from St. Francis College, Loretto, Penna., and has done extensive postgraduate study in related technical fields as well as sales, marketing and management training.
     After service in the 82nd Airborne Counter-intelligence Unit of the U.S. Army, Sweeney joined Ocean Mechanical in 1973 as chief project estimator. He went on to manage sales for MCC Powers, Robertshaw Controls, and Facilities Management Co. In 1980, he joined Litton Facilities Management Systems as a regional sales manager.
     Sweeney has focused on the energy field almost his whole career. He originally incorporated CCI in 1981,which he took public by selling it to Connecticut Natural Gas's non-regulated subsidiary, Energy Networks (later called Energy Networks Cogeneration).  In 1989, Sweeney started BVA Cogen and in 1995 took that company public by selling it to Yankee Energy Gas’s subsidiary YESCCo.
     Sweeney has been a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Electrical Engineers; past president of the New England Chapter, American Gas Engineers, he is also a member of the Association of Energy Engineers.  He is also a member of the Solid Waste Association of North America, Associated Industries of Massachusetts, and the board of directors of Northeast Energy and Commerce Association, for which he is chair of NECA’s Small Projects Committee.