2025 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry

UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel and Conference Center

THEME: INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS, DECARBONIZATION, AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION

The 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.

Research and development have always been a national strength. The transition also requires innovation in business models across the energy spectrum.
Lawrence 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.
Our trading partners are creating low-carbon standards, while continuing their own journeys of electrification combined with reductions in embodied carbon.

How 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.

You’ll leave the Summer Study with an expanded network and an action plan to meet your goals.

The following tracks will be the highlight of the conference program:

Track 1: Grids, Pipelines, and Funding

Track 2: Technology and Operations

Track 3: Bringing New Energy to Leadership

Track 4: Collaborating through Complexity: Navigating Industrial Value Chains

Participants: Corporate leaders, energy managers and government relations professionals; equipment manufacturers and engineering services providers; labor representatives; energy efficiency program administrators, evaluators, and implementors; public utility commission and consumer counselor staff members; professionals in the utility sector with responsibilities for efficiency programs, resource planning, regulatory compliance and government relations; energy efficiency solution providers; federal and state energy and economic development officials; energy and sustainability management firms; and energy efficiency, clean energy and equity advocacy organizations.

To view a list of the 2023 participating organizations, click here.

2025 Co-Chairs


Ammi Amarnath EPRI	Evelyn Lundhild IESO

Tracks/Track Leaders

Click on the title of each track for a full description.

Track 1: Grids, Pipes, and Funding


Steven Coley TVA	Baskar Vairamohan EPRI

Track 2: Technology and Operations


William Peter Oak Ridge National Laboratory	John Seryak Go Sustainable Energy

Track 3: Bringing New Energy to Leadership


Wendy Gibson Stillwater Energy	Andrew Knox Goldfin Consulting

Track 4: Collaborating through Complexity: Navigating Industrial Value Chains


Fiona Glasford Transition Accelerator	Andrea Marr Cadmus Group

Call for Abstracts

The Call for Abstracts is now open. Be a part of the discussion and share your knowledge. Submit an abstract here by February 14 for the opportunity to present at the conference. Abstracts should be 250 words or less and can be submitted for consideration in up to two of the four tracks. If your submission is accepted, you will be invited to present in a breakout session with presentations on similar topics. Notifications will be sent by mid-March.