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SBX Session Highlight: Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings as a Utility Resource

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Rapidly reducing the carbon content of utility resources while maintaining resource adequacy and grid reliability is a challenge for electric utilities across the country. Programs for demand flexibility and particularly grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) will be key to successfully integrating large amounts of renewable energy into the grid. This panel, featuring Albert Chiu (Pacific Gas & Electric Company), Jingjing Liu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Mark Martinez (Southern California Edison), and Brittainy Pond (Puget Sound Energy), will discuss the efforts by a number of utility leaders across the United States in deploying demand flexibility/GEBs as a central strategy for their future.

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Event schedule
Day 1 (virtual): August 27th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 2 (virtual): August 28th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 3 (in-person, Seattle): August 29th 9am-1:30pm Pacific

SBX Opening Plenary: Financing the Decarbonization of the Built Environment – Public, Private & Tax Credit Resources

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The virtual opening plenary session for Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) 2024 will feature Jigar Shah, Director of the Loans Program Office at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Mr. Shah will provide opening remarks on the extensive efforts by DOE and other federal agencies to help building owners invest in reducing carbon emissions from their properties. He will be joined by an elite panel of experts including Marc Daudon (The Caspian Group), Andy Hammons (Ryan Company), and Molly McCabe (HaydenTanner) in a discussion moderated by Ash Awad (McKinstry) about the public, private and tax credit resources that will catalyze the decarbonization of the built environment.

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Event schedule
Day 1 (virtual): August 27th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 2 (virtual): August 28th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 3 (in-person, Seattle): August 29th 9am-1:30pm Pacific

Register for Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX), Aug 27-29!

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Join the conversation about the role of smart buildings in the clean energy economy at the free 2024 Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) to be held virtually & in-person August 27-29, 2024! Interactive conference sessions featuring a mix of panel discussions and case study presentations will explore the market opportunity for smart buildings and highlight solutions to some of the challenges currently facing the commercial, corporate, and institutional real estate industries. Session topics will include:

  • Financing the Decarbonization of the Built Environment – Public, Private & Tax Credit Resources
  • Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings as a Utility Resource
  • Building Owner/Manager Guide to Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings – Is Demand Flexibility Right for You?
  • Indoor Environmental Quality – Field Results Inform Operational Practices
  • Campus-Scale Decarbonization – Planning & Implementation for Healthcare, University & Corporate Campuses
  • Making Buildings Smarter – Live Demonstration
  • Innovations for an Electrified & Decarbonized Future – Technology, Construction, Finance & Policy
  • Choosing the Smart Building Platform Right for You
  • Fault Detection & Diagnostics – Real World Lessons for Field Service
  • Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Reporting – Losing the Acronym, Improving the Result
  • Building Emissions Performance Standards – How Jurisdictions are Structuring Requirements
  • Connecting Building Performance Standards & Existing Building Commissioning

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Event schedule
Day 1 (virtual): August 27th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 2 (virtual): August 28th 9am-2:15pm Pacific
Day 3 (in-person, Seattle): August 29th 9am-1:30pm Pacific

Happy Earth Day 2024!

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Earth Day is an excellent time to consider the impact we can all have on creating a greener future for ourselves and our planet, and building owners and operators are in a great position to pave the way toward a cleaner energy tomorrow. Students of theBOC.info know that the impact they have today saves energy, money, and reduce the amount of carbon we add to the atmosphere. What does that look like in terms of energy? Let’s take a look below…

That’s a big deal! Why not make this the year? Check out the courses page for more information on how you can get started with the BOC and become part of a greener, cleaner tomorrow.  You can find more info about training, certification, and continuing education over on theBOC.info.

Free Training Available: Using Building Automation Systems (BAS) for Improved Building Operations

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Have your organization’s facilities engineers and HVAC technicians been hoping to learn more about using building automation systems (BAS) for troubleshooting and improving HVAC operations? FREE training funded by the Department of Energy will be available starting in April to help them take their BAS skills to the next level. Hosted by BEST Center and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), a series of online and in person sessions will provide insights into the basics of BAS, data analysis, troubleshooting, energy efficiency and grid-responsive strategies to reduce energy costs and emissions, and more. You will be using a national lab’s state-of-the-art testbed (FLEXLAB) as a “sandbox” for practicing BAS use.  Please help forward this opportunity to your colleagues!

To learn more and submit applications online, see the BAS training information page.  We currently have several spots left for the “Building Engineers” group.  Please sign up ASAP if you are interested and send any questions to [email protected].

4/16/24: WA Clean Buildings Performance Standard – Facts, Myths, and Misinformation

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Attend this FREE event at the Smart Buildings Center presented by the WA Dept of Commerce Clean Buildings Team on 4/16 starting at 1PM. More details and full agenda at the registration link below!

  • Learn everything there is to know directly from the WA Dept of
    Commerce – Clean Buildings Team. They will be addressing
    common concerns, dispelling myths and misinformation.
  • Discover available resources.
  • Find out how to reduce your out of pocket costs by using current
    Tax Incentives.

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Full flyer here

WA CBPS Flyer

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