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SBX Opening Plenary Session: Smarter Buildings & a Changing Utility – A Vision of the New World of Energy

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The agenda for the free virtual Smart Buildings Exchange to be held August 24th and 25th is nearly finalized! The event will dive deep into the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape through interactive conference sessions on grid-interactive efficient buildings, workforce development to meet the needs of the smart, clean and efficient buildings industry, and the business case for smart building investments.

Opening Plenary Session: Smarter Buildings and a Changing Utility – A Vision of the New World of Energy
The conference will kick-off on August 24th with a moderated discussion featuring senior thought leaders in the technology and utility sectors. Panelists include Mary Kipp, CEO of Puget Sound Energy, Debra Smith, CEO of Seattle City Light, Ed Schlect, CSO of Avista Utilities, Stephanie Greene of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Emmanuel Daniel of Microsoft. Moderated by Ash Awad, President and Chief Markets Officer of McKinstry, this panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the energy industry and how that affects the built environment. A new, cleaner, and more flexible electrical grid is coming. These changes will be facilitated in part by smart building technologies and practices built on the fast-growing power of cloud computing and information technology services. This is sure to be an exciting and informative discussion which will frame issues getting discussed throughout the subsequent two days of the conference.

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Clean & Affordable Energy Conference (virtual) – June 2 & 10, 2021

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Join the NW Energy Coalition for the Clean & Affordable Energy Conference! This virtual event will cover the most pressing issues in the Northwest’s energy landscape. These include salmon recovery and potential changes to the federal hydro system, as well as how to advance equity in the energy space through funding and support for expanded community participation. Panelists will discuss how to address regulatory barriers to decarbonizing utilities, and how stakeholders can engage in the NW Power Council’s regional planning processes to support clean, affordable, and reliable service for all Northwest communities. Register today!

Day 1: June 2, 9am – 12pm Pacific / 10am – 1pm Mountain
Day 2: June 10, 9am – 12pm Pacific / 10am – 1pm Mountain

GoGreen Virtual Conference, April 6th

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Join us at the GoGreen Conference on April 6th for a full day of networking, peer-to-peer-learning and empowering dialogue on how to build a more sustainable future. This years program features innovative regional business leaders and organizations who are making dramatic shifts to build and reinforce cutting edge sustainability and social equity initiatives. Learn more and register today on the GoGreen Conference website.

Smart Buildings Exchange Early-Bird Registration Open!

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A limited number of early-bird tickets for Smart Buildings Exchange, September 2-3, 2020, in Seattle are now available — register now and save $100!

About the event
Buildings are digitizing. Throughout the built environment, new technologies are connecting building systems and occupants in ways that generate confusion, opportunity, challenges and concerns over risks. From enabling buildings to perform for occupants and owners in previously unimaginable ways, to leveraging buildings to accelerate smart cities and electrification of transportation for a cleaner and healthier Earth, the opportunities are countless and exciting. Smart Buildings Exchange brings together the key audiences to challenge the hype, bear witness to the innovation, and explore the business case for accelerating the adoption and commercialization of smart buildings technologies and practices.

Exhibitor & Sponsorship Opportunities
Smart Buildings Exchange will host a boutique style exhibition highlighting industry leading vendors and sponsors that represent the Pacific Northwest vision for “smart” including the latest in smart building technologies and practices. Exhibitor & Sponsorship opportunities are limited — please download our Sponsorship Prospectus or contact britton.rife@neec.net for more information about ways your organization or business can participate in the conference.

NEEC members receive a 15% discount on registration! Be sure to reach out to info@neec.net to receive your NEEC member discount code before registering.

Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2020
September 2 – 3, 2020
Bell Harbor Conference Center, Seattle
https://smartbuildingscenter.org/sbx

Register Now: Policy Perspectives for an Evolving EE Landscape Webinar

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Thursday, October 10th, 12:00 pm PT

The world of energy is rapidly changing, and energy efficiency must adapt as a viable resource. In this webinar, Carmen Best, Director of Policy & Emerging Markets at Recurve (formerly OpenEE) will review some of the historic pillars of energy efficiency policy and explore key transitions necessary for success in the future.

Transparent quantification of changes in energy consumption, performance based accountability and large scale financing enable us to expand energy efficiency. The presentation will include examples of how meter-based quantification (policy and practices) and performance-based models for program design (P4P) are creating a critical pathway for transforming how distributed energy resources like energy efficiency can be procured and financed.

Tune in to learn more about these policies!


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Meet the Speaker:

Carmen Best, Director of Policy & Emerging Markets, Recurve
Carmen is supporting the growth of meter and performance based energy efficiency across the country through Recurve. Prior to joining Recurve, Carmen spent several years at the California Public Utilities Commission. While there, she brought the findings and insights from evaluation to statewide energy policy through demand forecasting, integrated resource planning and overall improvements in the deployment of energy efficiency. Her work continues in these areas but from an exciting new vantage point. Recurve connects the dots between efficiency, electrification, renewable energy, and distributed energy resources to enable demand flexibility as a market-based procurable resource. Carmen has supported Recurve in the creation of transparent methods and open-source software to revolutionizes the way energy efficiency is measured, deployed and procured. The Recurve Platform provides leading utilities, regulators, and aggregators with a secure, scalable, SaaS solution that enables markets for demand flexibility as a resource.

NEEC Webinar: Policy Perspectives for an Evolving Energy Efficiency Landscape

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Thursday, October 10th, 12:00 pm PT

The world of energy is rapidly changing, and energy efficiency must adapt as a viable resource. In this webinar, Carmen Best, Director of Policy & Emerging Markets at Recurve (formerly OpenEE) will review some of the historic pillars of energy efficiency policy and explore key transitions necessary for success in the future.

Transparent quantification of changes in energy consumption, performance based accountability and large scale financing enable us to expand energy efficiency. The presentation will include examples of how meter-based quantification (policy and practices) and performance-based models for program design (P4P) are creating a critical pathway for transforming how distributed energy resources like energy efficiency can be procured and financed.

Tune in to learn more about these policies!

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Meet the Speaker:

Carmen Best, Director of Policy & Emerging Markets, Recurve
Carmen is supporting the growth of meter and performance based energy efficiency across the country through Recurve. Prior to joining Recurve, Carmen spent several years at the California Public Utilities Commission. While there, she brought the findings and insights from evaluation to statewide energy policy through demand forecasting, integrated resource planning and overall improvements in the deployment of energy efficiency. Her work continues in these areas but from an exciting new vantage point. Recurve connects the dots between efficiency, electrification, renewable energy, and distributed energy resources to enable demand flexibility as a market-based procurable resource. Carmen has supported Recurve in the creation of transparent methods and open-source software to revolutionizes the way energy efficiency is measured, deployed and procured. The Recurve Platform provides leading utilities, regulators, and aggregators with a secure, scalable, SaaS solution that enables markets for demand flexibility as a resource.

Idaho Moves Forward with K-12 Opportunities

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The Office of Energy Resources released an RFQ for HVAC and control system service providers on February 19. The state is seeking to qualify and select providers that will provide mechanical system tune-ups on approximately 715 statewide K-12 buildings over the next eight months. Providers can specify portions of the state they are willing to service, or they can opt to provide services to the entire state. Firms are encouraged to partner with local providers. Non Idaho firms are eligible to propose if they have a history of K-12 work within the state. For more information please contact Sue Seifert at the Office of Energy Resources: Sue.Seifert@oer.idaho.gov In late March or early April of 2010 an RFP for energy efficiency capital projects will be issued for the Idaho K-12 Project. The state expects to spend approximately nine-million-dollars on efficiency upgrades in school buildings.

 

Energy Efficiency in Idaho

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The Recovery Act continues to fuel Idaho. One of our largest industries, microchip maker Micron, has been granted five million dollars for development and production of LED lamps, fixtures and control systems. According to the Micron team they are ready to begin production of some fixture types.

There is six million dollars of Energy Efficient Conservation Block Grants awaiting federal approval that will be made available to Idaho jurisdictions under a competitive process. The grants must be used for energy efficiency planning and projects. A solicitation is expected to be issued by the Office of Energy Resources within the next few weeks.

The Idaho K-12 Energy Efficiency Project is moving forward. In September, ten engineering firms were trained on scoping audit protocol by contractor Jim Volkman of Portland’s Strategic Energy Group. Audits will begin in October. Next up for the program will be RFQs for installation of smart software for a sample of statewide buildings and a separate RFQ for selection of service providers.

On October 20, 21, and 23 the Idaho Energy and Green Building Conference will be held in Boise at the DoubleTree Riverside. The 23rd annual conference draws A&Es as well as building officials and city and state leadership. For information on the conference agenda and registration log onto www.idahocities.org.