Asilomar Conference Grounds
Pacific Grove, CA
The 2026 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings will bring together professionals from around the globe to the Asilomar Conference Grounds to share research, spark new ideas and collaborations, and advance the technologies and practices needed to transform the building sector to improve efficiency, affordability, and resiliency.
Efficiency Innovations: Improving Affordability and Resiliency is the theme of this 24th biennial event. Together we’ll tackle today’s pressing challenges related to buildings’ energy use: increasing electricity demand due to data centers, air-conditioning, and new construction; rising costs of energy bills and property insurance; and the growing risks of power outages, health and safety concerns, and property damage from aging power grid infrastructure and extreme weather events. This is our opportunity to leverage new innovative technologies, AI, and business models for designing, constructing, operating, or retrofitting our buildings to be energy efficient, affordable to own and operate, and resilient to hazards.
We will continue with our popular panels as well as new to address current issues in the field. The following are the panels that will be the highlighted at the conference:
Panel 1: Residential Buildings: Technologies, Design, Operations, and Industry Trends
Panel 2: Residential Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Panel 3: Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, Operations, and Industry Trends
Panel 4: Commercial Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Panel 5: Energy Efficiency and Opportunity: Serving All
Panel 6: Utilities and the Future
Panel 7: Market Transformation
Panel 8: Human Dimensions of Energy Use
Panel 9: Energy Efficiency Policy: Federal, State, Local, and International
Panel 10: New Construction: Optimizing Efficiency and Resiliency
Panel 11: Smart and Grid-Interactive Buildings
Panel 12a: Healthy and Resilient Communities
Panel 12b: Data Centers: Load Growth and Solutions – NEW PANEL!
Panel 13a: Workforce Development and Competitiveness
Panel 13b: Scaling Whole Building Retrofits
Panel 14: Display Presentations
Click here to see a list of the organizations that participated in the 2024 Buildings Summer Study.
