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SUMMARY:2025 Energy Efficiency as a Resource Conference
DESCRIPTION:The 13th biennial Energy Efficiency as a Resource conference will focus on policies and programs to reduce energy waste as we build the utility system of the future. This event will explore how efficiency efforts can expand and evolve to help utilities and policymakers overcome the challenge of rapid electric load growth while maintaining power reliability and customer affordability. The conference will provide a unique opportunity to interact with the key players in the utility energy efficiency arena. \nIn addition\, ACEEE has collaborated with IEPEC to kickstart the week with its evaluation conference at the same venue as EER. These back-to-back events will provide the opportunity for broader networking and gathering of information from more experts in the field. IEPEC’s event will be held from Monday\, October 6 through Wednesday\, October 8\, overlapping with the start of the EER conference on Tuesday\, October 7.  The EER conference will wrap up on Thursday\, October 9. \nDiscount registrations will be offered to attendees who want to participate in both events.  More information to come in summer 2025!
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/2025-energy-efficiency-as-a-resource-conference/
LOCATION:Grand Hyatt Denver\, 1750 Welton Street\, Denver
CATEGORIES:ACEEE
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SUMMARY:2025 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry
DESCRIPTION:THEME: INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS\, DECARBONIZATION\, AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION\nThe industrial sector accounts for one third of the U.S. primary energy use\, so the energy transition presents enormous opportunities and risks for this sector. Industrial competitiveness is going to depend on continued investments in innovation\, efficiency\, and decarbonization. \n\nResearch and development have always been a national strength. The transition also requires innovation in business models across the energy spectrum.\nLawrence Berkeley National Lab estimates that only 50% of industrial energy is used productively – leading to an enormous waste of resources. Cost reduction through efficiency is a proven pathway to profitability.\nOur trading partners are creating low-carbon standards\, while continuing their own journeys of electrification combined with reductions in embodied carbon.\n\nHow do you take advantage of the opportunity and minimize the risk? How does your network support you? The 2025 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry brings together professionals from around the globe to Charlotte\, North Carolina – ground zero for recent industrial investment\, accompanied by a statewide commitment to carbon neutrality in the electricity sector by the year 2050. We will look at policies\, funding\, operations\, and technology to sustain industrial competitiveness\, for individual firms and the sector at large. We’ll ask how public-private partnerships can act now to develop the workforce we need for success. We’ll compare national and state policy to look for immediate advantage and long-term leverage. \nYou’ll leave the Summer Study with an expanded network and an action plan to meet your goals.
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/2025-summer-study-on-energy-efficiency-in-industry/
LOCATION:UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel and Conference Center\, 9041 Robert D Snyder Road\, Charlotte\, North Carolina
CATEGORIES:ACEEE
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SUMMARY:2025 Hot Water & Hot Air Forums
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nHyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center  \nACEEE’s Hot Air and Hot Water Forums are the nation’s premier policy and technical conferences devoted to improving efficiency and decarbonizing space and water heating. The Forums bring together seasoned experts and new voices each year to discuss strategies for transforming the two biggest uses of energy in buildings. \nJoin us in 2025 for discussions exploring efficiently producing\, distributing\, and using hot water and decarbonizing space heating in buildings of all kinds through heat pumps. Both Forums will explore how these industries can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy bills\, improve grid resilience\, and center equity. \nPrevious gatherings have attracted diverse attendees\, including equipment and component manufacturers; water\, gas\, and electric utility professionals; and local\, state\, and federal agency representatives. Energy efficiency program planners\, operators\, evaluators\, electricians\, plumbers\, installers\, policymakers\, representatives from NGOs\, engineers\, consultants\, and other experts have found value in the sessions and great networking at the events. \nClick here to see a list of organizations that participated in the 2024 Hot Air and Hot Water Forums.
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/2025-hot-water-hot-air-forums/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center\, 375 NE Holladay Street\, Portland\, Oregon
CATEGORIES:ACEEE
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SUMMARY:Energy Efficiency Policy Forum
DESCRIPTION:Forum Overview\nACEEE’s 2024 Energy Efficiency Policy Forum will bring together a diverse group of speakers from across government\, industry\, and advocacy groups to discuss opportunities and challenges for energy efficiency policy at the dawn of a new presidential term and the 119th Congress. \nThe Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have started to put the largest federal investments in energy efficiency in U.S. history to work. We will look at successes and challenges in the rollout of these funds and at lessons about how to improve these programs. We also know that these bills were not enough to meet the needs for transformative change to address the climate crisis. \nAt the same time\, efficiency policies and programs are increasingly under attack by opponents with a political philosophy that shuns spending and regulation for any purpose. We will look at whether the results of the 2024 election bolster an effort to use current programs as a springboard for real climate action or require a full-throated defense of energy efficiency’s benefits. \nThe 2024 Energy Efficiency Policy Forum will gather stakeholders from the federal government\, states\, industry\, the environmental movement\, and affected communities to share lessons learned from the past few years\, and how we can bring even greater benefits of energy efficiency to the American people. \nWe tentatively plan two keynote speakers and three sessions focused on: \n\nBuildings – combining efficiency and electrification in existing buildings\nIndustry – spurring transformation to decarbonize key industries\nTransportation – the role of electric vehicles in efficient transportation systems\n\nRegistration to open September 10\, 2024. \nRegistration Rates \n\nEarly Bird: $245 (register by 11/1/24) \nRegular: $300 (after 11/1/24)
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/energy-efficiency-policy-forum/
LOCATION:The National Press Club\, 529 14th Street NW\, Washington\, D.C\, 20045
CATEGORIES:ACEEE
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SUMMARY:2024 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings is the 23rd biennial event. Summer Study will bring together professionals from around the globe to the Asilomar Conference Grounds to collaborate\, debate and advance the technologies\, practices and research necessary to equitably decarbonize the building sector in a manner that addresses the urgency of the climate crisis. \nThe 2024 theme is Equity and Climate Action: Time to Deliver. In August 2022\, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)\, an unprecedented investment to transform our built environment and electricity sector to be safer and healthier\, reducing carbon emissions and prioritizing the needs of underserved communities. At the same time\, climate crisis is now a reality and is becoming more urgent and critical by the day. The Rhodium Group estimates that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the US increased by 1.3% in 2022.  While emissions from the electric power sector decreased in 2022\, outside of the power sector\, emissions increased slightly. The most significant increase was seen in direct emissions from buildings\, which rose by 6% and was the only sector to rebound to pre-pandemic levels. This is our opportunity to right the ship\, take advantage of this critical moment in history and identify the innovations that will deliver climate justice through deep emissions reductions in our buildings.
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/2024-summer-study-on-energy-efficiency-in-buildings/
LOCATION:Asilomar Conference Grounds\, 800 Asilomar Avenue\, Pacific Grove\, California
CATEGORIES:ACEEE
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SUMMARY:Marketing and Promoting Electrification Using Behavioral Science
DESCRIPTION:A new nationwide survey of nearly 2\,000 homeowners and renters found that among those interested in transitioning their homes from fossil fuels to efficient electric systems\, the most common reasons were the environment\, health and safety\, and energy efficiency. Perceptions of the expensiveness of switching to electricity and specific preferences about cooking with gas dominate the barriers to electrification. And customers with specific beliefs and experiences are most likely to switch. Putting these findings into practice is the real challenge. How do we encourage electrification more broadly using behavioral science? \nJoin us for a webinar as we delve into the details of this new report and discuss the findings with experts in the field. Attendees will learn about programs that have successfully moved households to electrify from Washington\, DC\, and the rest of the country.
URL:https://efficiencyfirstca.org/event/marketing-and-promoting-electrification-using-behavioral-science/
LOCATION:Online
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