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Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings 2024

September 9, 2024

Theme: Equity and Climate Action — Time to Deliver

This 23rd biennial event, also known as “summer camp for energy nerds,” will bring together professionals from around the globe to collaborate, debate and advance the technologies, practices and research necessary to equitably decarbonize the building sector in a manner that addresses the urgency of the climate crisis.

Panel 1 - Residential Buildings: Technologies, Design, Operations, and Industry Trends
A Comprehensive Survey of Electrical Panel Capacities in U.S. Single-Family Homes and Implications for Nationwide Electrification
Meier, Gul
Affordable Window Retrofit Solutions for Multi-family Buildings
Steenson, Cort, Valoria, Syvestre, Smith, Culp, Radack
An Affordable, Minimum-carbon Hybrid Heat Pump with a Grid-Responsive Retrofittable Controller
Li, Gluesenkamp, Kowalski, Shen
Best Practices for Hot Water Distribution Systems in Multifamily Buildings: A Comparative Evaluation of Balancing Methods
Zeyghami, Zhang
Better than a Dupe: How to Use Heat Pumps for AC Replacement
Hill, Schoenbauer, Shah
Braiding utility, state, and federal funding with comprehensive energy efficiency projects to drive carbon reduction goals in low-income multifamily housing
Sudyka, Drake
Braiding utility, state, and federal funding with comprehensive energy efficiency projects to drive carbon reduction goals in low-income multifamily housing
Chakraborty, Gaucher, Duff, Adler, Woolley
Cool Refrigerant Developments for a Warming World: Low GWP HVAC Refrigerant Regulations and Technologies in US and Global Markets
Goetzler, Young, Umland, Butrico, Torrado
Development and Testing of an Advanced Cascaded Thermoelectric Residential Heat Pump
Krishnamoorthy, Shirey, Shen
Development and Testing of an Advanced Cascaded Thermoelectric Residential Heat Pump
Panchabikesan, Withers
Development and Testing of an Advanced Cascaded Thermoelectric Residential Heat Pump
Less, Walker, Murphy, Fournier
Development and Testing of an Advanced Cascaded Thermoelectric Residential Heat Pump
Brooks, Neal, Young
Development and Testing of an Advanced Cascaded Thermoelectric Residential Heat Pump
Shekhadar, Fette
Development and Testing of an Advanced Cascaded Thermoelectric Residential Heat Pump
Harrington, Outcault, Feng, Frasier
Development and Testing of an Advanced Cascaded Thermoelectric Residential Heat Pump
Butzbaugh, Pilet, Artuso, Rosenberg, Rees
Heat Pump Water Heater Daily Load Shifting: Advanced Load Up and Evaluation Challenges
Besson, Dirr, Liu
Heat Pump Water Heater Daily Load Shifting: Advanced Load Up and Evaluation Challenges
Haile
Heat Pump Water Heater Daily Load Shifting: Advanced Load Up and Evaluation Challenges
Lindsey, Hargrove, Tam, Amarnath
Let Me Upgrade You: An Analysis of the Electrification Readiness of Homes as part of the Massachusetts Residential Baseline Study
Golino, Crossman, Korn, Piantedosi, Sudol
Leveraging NREL’s ResStock & ComStock Dataset to Evaluate Building Stock Electrification
Landsman, Bertolacini, Shah, Alberga, Andrews, Sontag, Van Sant, Dahlhausen
Load Shifting with Ductless Heat Pumps in Rural Cold Climates
Rosenberg, Nambiar, Rees
Low-Load Efficient Heat Pumps: A field data and product teardown exploration of why some heat pumps excel under part-load conditions
Dymond, Luker, Schoenbauer, Bush, Weber
“Max-tech FHR”: What is the maximum technically achievable water delivery capacity from a single 120 V plug?
Gluesenkamp, Shen, Akamo, Moses-DeBusk, Elata, Vineyard, Kolar
Resident Energy Experiences in a Low-Income Multifamily Community (Detroit, MI): A Study of Energy Consumption, Health, and Quality of Life
Miller, Ketenci
Residential Heat Pump with 3-Pipe Heat Recovery for DHW and Space Conditioning - Energy and Performance Results and Findings
Louie, Evren, Selvacanabady, Rees
Residential Integrated Heat Pump to Meet All the Home Comfort Needs
Shen, Gluesenkamp, Hu, Li
Retrofit Market Decarbonization with Plug-In HPWHs: California-wide Field Study Results and Market Commercialization Recommendations
Khanolkar, Gabriel
Retrofittable Thermal Switches for Dynamic Building Envelopes Integrated with Thermal Energy Storage
Kishore, Xiao, Booten, Kar, Mumme
Rising Up to the Challenge: Cold Climate Heat Pumps in the Field
Mendon, Keene, Rosenberg, Rotondo, Brambley, Young, Kazmi, Delgoshaei
Using Connected Boiler Data to Accurately Quantify Overheating and Energy Savings from Outdoor Air Reset (OAR) Curve Changes
Roth, Kromer
Variable-speed heat pumps improve grid resilience
Shirey, Hargrove, Rapley, Harrell, Wagner
Panel 2 - Residential Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) Case Study – Presentation of In Situ Operational Performance

Avoiding Locking in Emission through Electrification Readiness

Challenges and Performance from Seven Ducted Mini-Split Heat Pump Retrofits

Cold hard facts: Impact of refrigerant leakage emissions under high residential building electrification

Combining Energy Star's Brand Recognition with ResStock Modeling to Create a Go-To Heat Pump Savings Estimator

Defining the Electrical Panel Barrier to Residential Electrification

Delivering Low Income Whole Home Retrofits: Consumption Based Targeting for Deep Energy Savings

Electrification of Centralized Water Heating in an Affordable Housing Community: Lessons Learned from a Pilot Demonstration

Electrification Prognostication - A Data-Driven Approach to Predict the Heating Operation of Ductless Mini-Split Heat Pumps

Factors Influencing Grid-connected Heat Pump Water Heater Performance in the Southeast U.S.

Fossil Fuel Displacement Strategies - How Partial Electrification Can Make Electric Run Buildings Feasible

Getting Heat Pumps Under Control - The Success of the Heat Pump Revolution Requires Getting Heat Pump Controls and Sizing Right

Getting Past the Doorman - Key Challenges, Solutions, and Findings of a Determined Multifamily Baseline Study Team

Heat Pump Buyers Be Wary - Weighing the Effects of Refrigerants

HVAC Heat Pump Upgrades and their Impact on Household Maximum Power Demand

Increasing Uptake of Residential HVAC Commissioning with Advanced Technologies

Integrating load reduction with heat pump design to reduce the cost and risk of residential decarbonization

La Mora Senior Apartments; The Ups and Downs of Building Passive House, Modular, Affordable Senior Housing

Lifecycle Refrigerant Management

Massachusetts’ “Solar Access Program” - Design, Implementation and Savings Results for Residential Retrofits Serving Lower Income Homeowners

Meeting Customers Where They’re At... Literally - Virtual Verification as a Carbon-Friendly EM&V Tool for Residential Programs

Not Your Parents' Heat Pump - Training and Tools to Size Heat Pumps for Heating

Oh, You Thought Electrifying Buildings Would Be Easy? Lessons and Findings to Inform Electrification Strategies for Residential Buildings

Promoting heat pumps in cold climates - comparing strategies.

Ready, set, go! Lessons Learned and Innovative Approaches to Capture the Benefits of the Transformational IRA programs.

The Customer Bill Impacts of Efficient Building Electrification

The design, advancement, prototyping and field testing of scalable technologies and strategies for manufactured homes to decarbonize

The New Retro – Leveraging IRA incentives in designing home retrofit programs for low-income and beyond

The Price is Right: Aligning Utility Incentives with Decarbonization Goals

The value of proactive customer targeting for meeting utility goals

Yeah, But It’s a Dry Cold: Applicability of Cold Climate Heat Pumps in California.
Panel 3 - Commercial Buildings: Technologies, Design, Operations, and Industry Trends
A Near-Zero-GWP Heat Pump System for All-Electric Heating & Cooling in California

Advancing Grid Sustainability: Load Shifting with Heat Pump Water Heaters in Commercial and Multifamily Applications

Amp Up for Commercial Kitchen All-electric Retrofits: San Francisco International Airport (SFO) Case Study

Analyzing the long-term effects of building age on commercial building energy use and floorspace

Are we prioritizing the right thing? Cutting carbon emissions in California's large office buildings before installing a heat pump.

Boring but Efficient: HPWH Opportunities in Commercial Buildings

Central Heat Pump Water Heating Systems for Decarbonizing Multifamily Buildings: Market Assessment, Energy Performance and Cost Effectiveness Analysis

Data Driven Sustainability for Mechanical and Electrical Products in Buildings

Design and Performance of a Small Heat Pump Water Heater System

Development and Validation of a Low-Cost Building Automation System for Small- and Medium-size Commercial Buildings

Electrification, for the rest of us

Finding Fault: How AFDD Can Deliver Efficiency at Scale for the Military and Beyond

From Chills to Thrills: Revolutionizing Energy Efficiency and Load Flexibility in Supermarket Refrigeration

Getting Real about Dynamic Greenhouse Gas Monitoring for Buildings: Long Term Implications for Managing a Large Commercial Portfolio

Getting Setpoints Under Control: Advancing the Conversation with ASHRAE Standard 195 and Controllable Air Flow Minimums

Getting to Fan-Tastic: Overcoming Barriers to Energy Efficiency in the C&I Fan Market

Heat Pumps can Help Decarbonize Large Commercial Buildings - Learnings from Foreign Applications

How DOAS will be a Key Contributor to Building Decarbonization

HVAC Fuel Substitution Measure Opportunities in California

Identifying Barriers That Impede Cost-Effective, Holistic, and Equitable Building Performance and Zero Carbon Goals in Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities

Large-Scale Energy System Transformation – From Old School to Clean Energy Campus

Making Parking "EV Ready" At Scale: New Construction Requirements & Retrofit Programs for Comprehensive Futureproofing

Not Too Cool for School: Demystifying Costs and Accelerating Pathways for All-Electric and Healthy Schools

Occupancy Fan Controllers

Overcoming Barriers to Natural Refrigerants: “Why can I buy a propane boiler but I cannot buy a propane heat pump?”

Price-based Communications for Load Shedding in Overloaded Panels

Progress Toward Electrification of Commercial Buildings

Pump Up Savings Persistence: Ensure VFD Savings with Smart Pumps

The impact of adaptive thermal comfort on energy savings in office buildings under various insulation levels

The Natural Choice for Walk-in Refrigeration: Packaged Hydrocarbon Equipment

The Solution to Large Building Electrification: Heat Recovery Chillers and Condenser Water Storage
Panel 4 - Commercial Buildings: Program Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
“Yes, and”: Integrating Equity in Technical Assistance Delivery

2030 Goals Require Long Term Efficiency Plans that Specify Networked Lighting Controls

A Technical Analysis of Innovation and Adaptation for a Whole Building Utility Offering

Addressing energy consumption in commercial buildings with reduced occupancy

Analyzing 12,000 measures from Energy Trust of Oregon’s SEM Opportunity Registers

Assessing and Addressing the Equitability of Small Business Energy Efficiency Programs

Building on Success: Pushing Participants Towards Net-Zero

Current state of the commercial lighting market and opportunities for growth

Deep Savings Building Interventions as an Energy Resource: Connecting the Dots

Electrifying Changes: Assessing Effects of Program Support on Massachusetts Heat Pump Markets

Equitably Transforming Colorado’s Schools

Going Big on Small Buildings: Spotlight on efforts to improve controls for packaged rooftop HVAC units

Lighting the Way Equitably with Utility's Luminaire Level Lighting Controls Market Transformation Initiative

Modeling the “Where and When” Grid Impacts of Seattle’s Building Emissions Performance Standard: A Generalized Modeling Study & Load Impact Analysis

No Really, RTU Gas Efficiency is a Decarbonization Strategy

On their best performance - Is NMEC the future of demand side programs?

On-Bill Financing Alternative Pathway – Increasing Market Penetration through Scalable EE Financing

Overcoming barriers to small commercial energy efficiency and electrification

Physics-Infused Retrofit Isolation Measurement and Verification for AI-driven Energy Application

Post Install Validation for Commercial and Industrial Customers

Simplified Performance Rating Method for Code Compliance and Beyond Code Programs

Tackling the Giants: Applying Smart Labs Principles to Constant Air Volume Lab Buildings

The Transition to New Program Designs Invites New Evaluation Solutions

Unleash the Potential of Data-Driven Energy Efficiency Programs

Using advanced M&V data to quantify the greenhouse gas impact of energy efficiency projects in commercial buildings
Panel 5 - Energy Efficiency and Equity
A Participative Narrative Inquiry (PNI) Approach to the Evaluation of Empower Me: a community led energy awareness and education program designed and delivered for and by underserved communities.

Aligning Community Benefits with Decarbonization Goals: lessons learned from development of community benefit plans for IRA Funds

An Open-Source Framework for Characterizing District Energy Models: Integrating Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches Capturing Spatial Variability of Building Energy Behavior

Bringing Power to Disadvantaged Communities: Leveraging Federal Solar PV Assets to Sustain Communities during Extreme Weather Events

Cooling – not weatherization – ensures access to livable indoor conditions for residential buildings in Los Angeles

DAC Snack Pack – How a menu of options aims to make the clean energy grid accessible to disadvantaged communities

Effects of Redlining on Residential Energy Efficiency and Resilience in Extreme Temperature Events

Efficiency Improvements, Price Escalation, Neighborhood Displacement: Strategies to Ensure “Good” Market Transformation Does Not Create “Bad” Market Transformation

Efficient and Healthy Schools - Enabling Investments in Energy Efficiency, Health, and Resilience

Empowering Energy Equity in Rural, Low-Income Communities

Energize Denver: Putting the Human Touch in Building Decarbonization

Equity Counts: Factoring Equity into Energy Decision-Making

Equity Metrics in Clean Energy Transition: Measuring the Impact of Policy and Investments

Ethical Storytelling for Equitable Outcomes

Future Housing Initiative: Researching Resident Priorities for Inclusion in an Equity & Carbon Database for Multifamily Housing

Health, Well Being and Electrification Retrofits: IAQ Benefits for Asthma Patients

Metrics Mayhem! Recent Approaches to Measure Progress Toward Equity and Environmental Justice in Clean Energy Programs

Navigating Climate Risks in Affordable Housing: Strategies for Equitable Risk Assessment

New voices, new energy! Diversifying representation in front of Commissions

Out of Gas, In With Justice: The Impacts of Cooking Electrification in Multifamily Low-Income Housing in New York City

Partnerships to Tackle Energy Insecurity in the Southeast

The Costs of of Decarbonizing Multifamily Buildings in DACs and Rural Areas

Towards a National Energy Poverty Strategy

Transforming Energy Decision-Making Spaces in the Midwest

Turning Energy Equity Talk into Action: Advancing Equity in California's Energy Efficiency Landscape
Panel 6 - Utilities and the Future
A Smart Step Forward: Analytics for Equitable Electrification Program Planning

Benefit-Cost Analysis of Targeted Electrification and Gas Decommissioning in California's East Bay

Better Together: Utility Coordination on Next Generation Decarbonization Solutions

Building Electrical Capacity Management: The Missing Element to Enable a Sustainable and Resilient Grid

Coalition For Community-Supported Affordable Geothermal Energy Systems (C2SAGES)

Debunking the Myths of Hybrid Heat Pumps

Decarbonize This: Measuring the Building Electrification Baseline With a Comprehensive Meter Dataset

Development of customized measure packages for cost-effective and scalable combined demand flexibility and energy efficiency programs

Emerging aspects of gas demand side management, including demand response to support load balancing and avoid new infrastructure

Energy Equity in California: The Role of Regional Energy Networks in Bringing Energy Efficiency Programs to Disadvantaged Communities

Engaging and crediting utilities for supporting energy code and building performance standard implementation

Ensuring equitable access to energy affordability and energy efficiency with utility data and technology

Here Comes the Sun: Determining the Future Benefit of Net-Metered Solar

How do Small and Medium Businesses Understand and Respond to TOU Rates?

Maximizing Reach and Impact to the Underserved with Unique Partnerships and Braided Funding

Mechanisms for Quantifying and Transferring Grid Impacts & Environmental Attributes of Decarbonization Projects

Mitigating the Grid Impacts of Electrification: Opportunities to Reduce Barriers to Electrifying our Buildings for Decarbonization.

Moving Beyond the Buzz Words – Simplified Examples Provide Context to the “Mysteries” of “Data Science

Non-Program Residential Battery Storage Identification and Use in High Fire Threat Districts and Disadvantaged Communities

Obligation to serve: utility approach to providing decarbonized heat

Out of the Frying Pan and Onto the Wire

Planning for Electrification: Guidance on Aligning Gas and Electric Planning

Program Approaches for Fostering Innovative Market Transformation

Propelling Equitable Decarbonization through Utility Programs and Rate Design

Right Place, Right Time: How modernizing load and DER forecasting practices can help utilities prepare their systems for electrification

SEM: Break down barriers and the savings persist

Strategic Decarbonization Utilizing Building Stock Datasets

Super-Efficient Room Conditioners as a Multifamily Market Mover

The Future of Heat: How Utility-Owned Thermal Energy Networks Can Decarbonize Neighborhoods at Scale

Towards a more flexible gas future: emerging approaches to residential gas load management

Unlocking Equitable Energy Transition with Inclusive Utility Investments: Implementation in Massachusetts

Uplifting Rentals: Decarbonizing Affordable Housing
Panel 7 - Market Transformation
A Lender’s Journey into Green Home Renovations - A Case Study

A Proposed Evaluation Framework for New and Emerging Low-Embodied-Carbon Concrete Technologies

Advancing Equity in Energy Efficiency Funding and Financing: Scenarios and Roadmap

An equity lens for market transformation: Delivering ESJ benefits at scale through an integrated program design approach

Benefits and Opportunities of Off-Site Construction: Analysis of Indiana and Pennsylvania

Building Performance Standards: A New Paradigm for Building Retrofits

Coining the Carbon: Can California Commercialize (Embodied) Carbon?

DEVELOPING A MARKET-DRIVEN NET BENEFIT FRAMEWORK FOR DEMAND FLEXIBILITY

Financing towards net-zero buildings - a European initiative with global reach

Follow the Money to Create Durable Demand for Home Energy Upgrades: Case Studies in State & Local Government Actions

From IMPEL to Impact: Lessons Learned in Accelerating Innovative Building Technologies

How to Design and Implement an Equitable Building Performance Standard: Lessons from the Building Performance Standards Technical Assistance Network

Indoor Air Quality Protection Pathways for Health, Climate, Equity and Economic Benefits.

Market Transformation in the Zero-Emission Era: New Policy Roles for Emission Standards, Codes, and Incentives

Market Transformation Success Story: From Initial Specification to Federal Standards for Heat Pump Water Heaters

Net Zero for All: The Built Environment’s Role in a Just Transition to Zero

Picking up the PACE: How Embodied Carbon and C-PACE are advancing the Decarbonization Roadmap

Planning to Capture the Transformative Potential of Government Investment

Potential Impacts of Using Off-site Construction for Multifamily and Public Housing

Reality TV: How a new test procedure and efficiency metrics led to a new US federal test method and industry standards that could save the equivalent energy of 50 coal-fired power plants around the world

Refrigerants, taking the chill out of heat pumps

Scaling Decarbonization Development Innovation with Emerging Community-Based Developers

States of mind: How regional decision-making patterns can influence uptake of residential heat pumps and enclosure upgrades

The Building Business Network (B-Biz): Addressing Gaps in the High-Performance Building Technology Market, Especially for Underserved Customers

The Future of Market Transformation

The Great Thaw: Unfreezing Potential with Minnesota’s ASHP Contractor Training

The Invisible Elephant: Building Level Data from Utilities

The Sufficiency Imperative – why deep energy conservation is needed to achieve climate and equity targets and how it might be achieved

Tracking, Reporting, and Maximizing the Flow of Benefits from Deployment Activities to Disadvantaged Communities and Disinvested Buildings

Transformational Equity - shifting power with people-centered programs

Transforming Market Transformation

Transforming Residential Space Heating to the Point that Heat Pumps Predominate: A Review of State Efforts

True Market Transformation Starts with Transformation from Within Ourselves

Windows: Pushing the envelope on a brighter future
Panel 8 - Capturing Savings through Behavior
Behavioral Demand Response – 10,000+ Customers receive alerts for needed energy-saving during peak demand events

Blending behavioral science and physics-based models inform equitable decarbonization pathways in the US housing stock

Building Energy Efficiency into the Organization's Culture

Demand Flexibility: Keeping Users in the Loop with “Invisible” Technologies

Dishwashers, Clothes Washers, and Behavioral Impacts: Savings Opportunity by Increased and Better Use

Do ethnicity and language preference have implications for utility service delivery in Los Angeles?

Empowering Transformation through Space and Time: Exploring the Influence of Strategic Energy Management in Disadvantaged Communities and Multi-Year Cohorts

Energy Behaviour: A Standards Outlook

Energy Equity, Agency, and Distributed Energy Intelligence

Engaging Customers in Digital Space – Observations from Delivered Energy Insights

Enhancing Participation in Residential Demand Response: Insights from Case Studies Conducted in Alaska and California

Equitably Engaging with Customers in Their Preferred Language: How Inclusive Customer Engagement is Better Customer Engagement

Get with the Program: Methods of engaging occupants for energy-conscious behavior

Green Lease Leaders and How the Lease is Used as a Critical Tool for Decarbonization

GRIDSAVE: Mobilizing Conservation to Avoid Imminent Blackouts

In Practice Makes (Closer to) Perfect: Equity-focused Energy Efficiency Case Studies

Increasing Participation in Demand Response Programs – A New Customer Engagement Model

Insights into C&I Customer Motivations for Pursuing Energy Efficiency

Paths Forward: Approaches to Achieve Plug and Process Load Efficiency and Control in Commercial Buildings

Plug Loads and Automatic Receptacle Controls: How Understanding User Behavior Can Drive Adoption at Scale

Powering Success: The holistic impact of comprehensive program support helps utilities and customers reach their business goals

Reducing Survey Bias: Old (Pretty Easy) Lessons are ESPECIALLY Important for Web Surveys

Smart Home Demand Response: Real-Time Energy Use and Enhanced Customer Engagement

Smart Homes, Smarter Choices: The Role of Values and Perceptions in Tech Adoption and Energy Efficient Usage

Staging the Upgrade: How Online Tools Can Drive Whole House Improvements Through the Homeownership Lifecycle

Through the looking glass: analyzing barriers to adoption of advanced rooftop unit controls through human-centered observational research

Understanding Gaps in Utility Program Offerings and Customer Engagement

Using Behavioral Science to Maximize Savings on Time-of-Use Rates
Panel 9 - Energy Efficiency Policy: U.S. & Beyond
Addressing Energy Hardship By Putting Communities at the Center - Comparative Approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand, the United States and Canada

Appliance Standards, Equity, and Climate Change—HVAC Opportunities

Balancing Equity and Climate Objectives: Dealing with the Trade-Offs

Community-based prioritization of commercial buildings for equitable implementation of building performance standards

Doing The Right Thing Now Will Eventually Pay Off: Cost-Effective & Equitable Building Decarbonization Requires Proactive Planning and Rethinking Rate Design

Equitable Building Decarbonization Options in a Changing Legal Landscape

Equitable Decarbonization: Prioritizing Frontline Communities for Building Performance Standard Technical Support Programs

Going Mainstream with Home Energy Ratings by Leveraging Site-Specific Data in California

How Can Efficiency Programs Leverage $20 Billion in Financing from EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund?

It's Flex Time: Using Flexible Demand Appliance Standards to Deliver Peak Load and CO2 Reductions

Keeping up with the Light Bill: Renter Energy Insecurity Trends and Policy Implications

Lessons from the Ground: Implementing Building Performance Standards

Natural Gas End Use Decarbonization: What we Know so Far

Non-Pipeline Alternatives: A Regulatory Framework and Case Studies

Overcoming barriers to BPS: A collaborative, grassroots approach to building performance standards

Power and Politics in Building Sector Decarbonization: Insights from Canada

Power on the Block: Empowering Residents to Impact Community Change Through Electrification and Decarbonization

Reducing Carbon Emissions and Creating Housing Stability in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program

Should Natural Gas Energy Efficiency Incentives be Phased Out?

Tenant Protections in Building Decarbonization Policy

The EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive - key regulation for a carbon-neutral building stock by 2050

The Remodeling Industry and Energy Retrofits: Capacity and Awareness for Change

Translating Potential into Performance: Assessing Compliance Costs and Policy Improvements to Maximize Building Performance Standards

Updating Minnesota’s SB 2030 Program: Paving the Way for Net-Zero

Using Building-Level Utility Data to Deliver Equitable Energy Efficiency Programs in Multifamily Buildings

We’re All in This Together: Progressive Rate Structures Can Balance Signals for Energy Efficiency, Electrification, and Load Flexibility.

Will Banks Start Putting Their Money Where Their Properties Are?

Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standards: A New Tool in the Policy Toolbox
Panel 10 - New Construction: From Codes to Net Zero
21st Century Compliance: Data-Driven Solutions for Decarbonization and Equity

A Radical Rethink on Building Energy Codes: The G20 Experience

A Win-Win Strategy: Municipality and Utility Partnership on Advanced Building Policy Market Transformation

Beat the peak - Mitigating electric peak demand in all-electric new construction

Bridging the Gap: Aligning Building Energy Codes with Existing Building Performance Standards

Buildings of Excellence: Driving Resilient, Low-Carbon Multifamily Housing Across New York State

California Restaurant Association v. City of Berkeley and the continuing opportunities for building codes to drive deep decarbonization and energy efficiency

Code and Communities: Opportunities to Incorporate Equity Into Building Energy Codes

Codes, Mortgages, and Equity

Compliance Journeys: Using a Stock-based Modeling Approach to Analyze Maryland’s Proposed Statewide Building Performance Standard

Comprehensive Embodied Carbon Policy Development in the Upper Midwest

Do Stronger Energy Codes Move Development to Neighboring Jurisdictions?

Efficiency First: Minnesota’s approach to push the limits of efficiency and narrow the efficiency gap in achieving net zero code goals

Energy Code Decarbonization Pathway to Accommodate the Ninth Circuit Court Ruling

Energy Codes, Home Size, and Equity

Exploration of Methods for Determining Operational CO2e Emissions

Impact of electrification reach codes on residential new construction projects

Investigating the Impacts of Climate Change on an Affordable Multifamily Building in Boston, Massachusetts

Making It Happen: On-site Renewable Energy and Storage Challenges and Solutions for Commercial Buildings

Moving to All-Electric Residential New Construction Programs

Navigating Decarbonization: Assessing Compliance Pathways and Legal Complexities

Out of Site! Lessons Learned from Alternative Approaches to Evaluating the Market’s Response to Code Changes

Performance Based Approaches to Energy Codes and BPS – Results of Jurisdiction Pilots

Prescriptive Codes and Implications on Building Energy Use Variation

Residential Energy Management Systems: Market Trends and Future Growth

Striking the Right Balance: Examining Optimum Insulation Levels Based on Lifecycle Cost, Emissions, and Societal Impacts

The New York Stretch Energy Code: A Convergence of Opportunity

The Rent is Too D*** High! Cost-Effective Ways to Reduce Upfront and Long-term Costs for Residential New Construction and Simplify Participation

Unlocking the Path to Decarbonized Building Thermal Systems: Strategies for Designers and Contractors
Panel 11 - Resilient and Healthy Communities
A climate-aware built environment: Integrating future weather data into buildings decisions today

Advancing Energy Equity in the City of Orlando

Another Step Forward: Continuing to Build Energy Resiliency Informed by Customer Electric Burden

Building Efficiency for Energy Resilience: Analysis and Applications

Can We Walk and Chew Bubblegum at the Same Time? Climate resilience-building in Building Performance Standards: opportunities to align mitigation and adaptation

Comfort in the Dark: Quantifying the value of building resilience

Comparison of the economic and operational characteristics of building level versus community scale resiliency strategies

Conjoining Food and Grid Resiliency with Onsite Power and CEA

Delivering on Equity. Anchoring on Decarbonization of Low-Income Homes as part of a Multi-project Approach for Resilient and Healthy Communities: Stories from the Field

Energy burden awareness and thermal resilience informed thermal energy storage system planning for disadvantaged communities

Field Studies for Enabling Sustainable Resiliency: Leveraging Innovative Building Technologies for Grid Reliability Across California’s High-Risk and Vulnerable Communities

Healthier and Wealthier Communities Through Energy Efficiency: Monetizing Non-Energy Benefits for Cost-effectiveness Tests Across Electric and Gas Efficiency Programs

I’ve Got the Power: The Value of Resilience for All-Electric Homes

In the Air Tonight: How Residential Electrification Can Lead to Cleaner Air and Better Health

Is a generator the only solution when the grid fails?: Optimizing systems for resiliency and carbon reduction

It Was Water, Water Everywhere: What Did Efficiency Programs Learn from the Last, Great Flood?

Mapping Energy Resilience for the Grid and the Consumer

Opening the Window to Space Heating Decarbonization for Communities

Ramping Up Community Building Decarbonization: Planning for Scale, Pace, and Equity at the Local Level

Resilience and Future Climate Data for Modeling and Design

Summer Indoor Thermal Conditions in Chicago Residences without Central Air-Conditioning

The (Un)Intended Effects of Stacking Load Modifying Solutions

The Clean Cook: The Value Of Induction Stovetops
Panel 12 - Smart and Grid-Interactive Buildings
A utility works to incentivize customers to install dispatchable storage in their homes.

Advancements in combi heat pumps with thermal storage – a cornerstone solution for equitable and efficient grid-interactive electrification in cold climates

Analyzing The Impact Of Energy Efficient ASHRAE Guideline 36 Control Sequences On Demand Flexibility Potential Of Commercial Buildings: A Multi-Region Analysis

Architecting the Future: Exploring Coordinated Control Frameworks for Connected Communities

Assessing Customer Experience and Business Models around Price-to-Device Communication and Smart Control Pathways in CalFlexHub

BRICK Schema Standardized Plug Load Control Strategies for Load Reduction

Demystifying Thermal Energy Storage: Evaluating The Tradeoffs Between Storage Sizing And Control Algorithm Complexity For Demand Flexibility

Digital and Interoperable: The future of building automation is on the horizon. What's in it for me?

Digitization, Standards and Interoperability: Lighting as a Team Player

Drop-in Decarbonization with Smart Fuel-Switching RTUs

Equity, Electrification, and Time of Use (TOU) rates: Coupling Thermal Energy Storage with Heat Pumps for Improved Operational Efficiency

Frozen Freedom: Unleashing Grocery Store Demand Flexibility

Grid-connected heat pump water heater benefits for low-income households in the Southeastern United States

Grid-interactive Load Flexibility Control of Multifamily Heat Pump Water Heater Systems

Harmonized Resilience at Roosevelt Village: How Futuristic Grid-Interactivity and Resilience Come Together in Senior Affordable Housing

Implementing Load Flexibility Programs For Low Income Households to Help Alleviate Energy Burden

Innovating the Next Generation of Commercial Smart Building Software

Introducing smart grid communication through telematics-based applications

Model predictive control for large-scale cooling tower system using transfer learning model

Optimizing Cost and Carbon Footprint: Laboratory Testing of Model Predictive Control for Smart Management of Heat Pump Water Heaters

Practical challenges and impacts of low-cost model predictive control (MPC) for grid-interactive small and medium commercial buildings.

Pushing the envelope – Moving dynamic building envelope TES systems mainstream

Real-time GHG Emission Factor

SCE Flick Power Study: Pre-Attentive Color Schemes to Enhance Customer Responsiveness to Time-of-Use Electric Rates

Smart Thermostats and Heat Pumps: Incompatible? Or just need counseling?

Stakeholder perspectives on the role of standards in establishing a load flexible ecosystem

Supercharging Demand Response Performance with Residential Batteries

Techno-Economic Analysis of High Efficiency and Connected DERs for Connected Communities – A Case Study in Seattle, WA

The best of both worlds: Combined thermal and battery storage for widespread building decarbonization

The Business Case for Investment in Upgrades and Features to Support Grid interactivity in New and Existing Buildings

The cost of HVAC demand response: Using experimental data to track down the causes of inefficiency in sub-hourly HVAC load shifting

The state of demand flexibility programs and rates and their role in managing peak demand

Transforming demand response using OpenADR 3.0

Utilities and the Future: Utility Virtual Power Plant development and integrated M&V
Panel 13a - Workforce
Building a Diverse Workforce within Energy Efficiency

Critical HPWH Training and Tool Updates

Delivering Energy Efficiency Jobs to Underserved Communities

Designing a proven Workforce Development model that impacts everyone

Efficient Electrification Toolkit: decision-support tools for advancing energy efficiency and electrification in buildings

Energizing Economic Growth: A Methodology for Assessing National Residential Energy Auditor Readiness

Energy Skilled: Preparing the Workforce for a Clean Energy Future

Equitable Workforce Development in Decarbonizing Existing Buildings

Equity-centered Workforce Development: Demonstrated Success Through Partnership

Holding out for a HERO (Home Energy Retrofit Occupation): Lessons Learned from the Oregon Workforce Training Ecosystem

How WISE Evaluation Can Improve Contractor Training for Home Electrification

Identifying and Defining High Priority Commercial Building Energy Efficiency and Electrification Jobs and Skills for a Growing and Diverse Workforce

Realizing the Residential Electrification Opportunity: One Heat Pump at a Time

Smart Building Technology Training Modules for Academic and Professional Education

The Clean-Energy Transition Won't Work Without Well-Coordinated Clean-Energy Workforce Development

The High Road is the Path to Equity and Efficiency

The Impact of Industrialized Construction on the Construction Workforce: Jobs and Skill Profiles from over 500 Industrialized Construction Job Postings

Training the Next Generation of Building Operators: Development of the Building Operators: Grid and Occupants (BOGO) Training

Tuning up the workforce to decarbonize buildings – a Seattle partnership

Who Does the Work? Staffing our Equitable Energy Transition

Workforce Development Initiatives for Diverse Contractors: A National Benchmarking Review of Utility Sponsored Programs to Advance Residential Energy Efficiency Weatherization

Workforce Development: How the Midwest Will Equitably Meet Its Climate Goals in New Construction
Panel 13b - Scaling Whole Building Retrofits
Adding Insulation when Re-Siding: A Wall Retrofit that Ticks All the Boxes

Aerosol Sealing Occupied Homes from Attics and Crawlspaces

Building Relationships and Empowering Communities: A Holistic Energy Efficiency Program in Southeast and Central Washington with Scalable and Replicable Approaches

Case Study of a Solar and Weatherization Retrofit of Rural Cold Climate Senior Affordable Housing

Demonstration of Decarbonization in Tribal Affordable Housing

Designing an Equitable Electrification Program for Small Rental Properties: A Tale from Several Climates

Ensuring equitable access to energy-efficient commercial building tax deductions

Expanded Split Incentives in Buildings' Value Chains

Field deployment of Window Heat Pumps in Multi-Family and Single-Family Low-Medium Income Homes

From Loading Order to Loading Lanes: Rethinking Communities of Concern’s Energy Transition

How Deep is Your Retrofit? A New Data Platform to Determine Recommended Retrofit Upgrade Packages and Associated Cost Targets for U.S. Residential Buildings

Leveraging Funds to Unlock Retrofit Programs for Multifamily Affordable Housing

Micro Heat Pumps, Are they ready for Prime Time?

New U.S. Data Tools are Playing a Crucial Role in Decarbonizing Buildings at Speed, Scale, and Low Cost

Panels, Perfect Walls and Prefabrication: High Performance Enclosure Retrofits

Research Opportunities for Building Decarbonization Through Industrialized Construction

Seeing Is Believing: Understanding and Expanding Multifamily Building Retrofit Markets Through Large-Scale Computer Vision Analysis of Building Characteristics

Sharing the Love: “Guaranteeing” Participant Benefits from Equitable Electrification Programs

Stacking Different Colored Legos – Providing Homeowners with Incentives to Build Equitable Decarbonization

Two Approaches to Scaling Commercial Building Decarbonization Retrofits: Breadth and Depth

What it takes to decarbonize all homes in a cold climate city

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