2015 ACEEE Intelligent Efficiency Conference

2015 ACEEE Intelligent Efficiency Conference

The Westin Boston Waterfront
Boston, MA
December 06, 2015 to December 08, 2015

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Intelligent Efficiency Conference Overview

Intelligent efficiency holds the promise of substantially reducing energy use while transforming many energy-using markets. Achieving this outcome requires collaboration among the efficiency, technology, and user communities. These communities are largely distinct, and few opportunities have existed to date for the energy efficiency and technology communities to interact. Past interactions have been limited to speakers from one community addressing assemblies of the other.

ACEEE’s second Intelligent Efficiency Conference convened these diverse communities to facilitate the sharing of ideas and forming of partnerships that will advance the adoption of intelligent efficiency in the marketplace. The Intelligent Efficiency Conference provided an opportunity to hear from thought leaders and innovators, learn what is happening in this rapidly evolving world, and served as a crucible for the formation of new policies, program strategies and commercial ventures.

Participants Included: Energy efficiency program developers and administrators, state and local government policymakers, staff, and associations, chief technology officers and chief information officers, service providers, investors, entrepreneurs, hardware and software developers, ICT solution providers, building automation providers, and smart manufacturing, smart transportation, smart buildings, and smart cities leaders.

Program

The 2015 Intelligent Efficiency Conference brought together people from the IT, telecom, energy efficiency, utility, solution provider, policy, and energy consumers sectors to share and learn how information and communications technology (ICT) can improve the use of energy. The conference included featured speakers, plenaries, and almost two dozen breakout sessions. Sessions focused on policies, programs, and practices that are changing and improving as a result of the application of ICT. For the first time, a trading space session was held during which innovators in search of partners, researchers in search of data, and vendors in search of clients described their work, made their pitches and invited participation.

Attendees learned about, and participated in, discussions on smart buildings, smart cities, integrated mobility, energy efficiency program design, customer engagement, project evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V), and the integration and load balancing of distributed energy resources into the electric grid. Plenaries discussed how ICT is going to change the customer-funded energy efficiency program sector and related policies, and how it can facilitate inclusion of energy efficiency in state compliance plans for the EPA's Clean Power Plan.

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Intelligent Efficiency Webinar

If you’d like to learn more about the Intelligent Efficiency Conference and intelligent efficiency in general, this webinar, recorded on October 22nd, will get you started. In the webinar, we provide an overview of intelligent efficiency and explain how Boston has become a leader in using intelligent efficiency to improve city management and provide new services. These smart-city practices are one of the reasons Boston scored #1 in our 2015 City Energy Efficiency Scorecard, and why we chose the city for the conference.

Find a recording of the webinar below, and the webinar presentation here.

The webinar panel was comprised of:

Penni McLean-Conner, Chief Customer Officer and Senior Vice President of Customer Group for Eversource Energy (and ACEEE Board Member)
Badri Raghavan, Chief Data Scientist for First Fuel
Arah Schuur, Director, Energy Efficiency Division, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources

They joined Ethan Rogers, ACEEE's Senior Program Manager, Industry, for an hour-long discussion of intelligent efficiency, smart cities and the 2015 conference, and answering participant's questions.