Summit 2015
SPEER’s Third Annual Summit was held in Dallas April 13-14, 2015 and featured keynote addresses from from Dr. Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, U.S. Department of Energy, Hunter Lovins, co-author with Amory Lovins of Natural Capitalism, President of Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS), and Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls & Energy, Parks Associates.
Participants heard plenary presentations on a dozen topics and had the opportunity to attend breakout sessions to deeper dive into those topics. A list of all the plenary presentations and breakout discussions is below.
♦Status of Utility Efficiency Programs in the Region ♦Utility of the Future: Integrating EE, DR, DG, and Storage
♦Energy Codes: Challenges and Opportunities ♦Lighting: Has the Market Transformed?
♦Voluntary Challenges: 2030, Better Buildings and More ♦Financing Residential Retrofits
♦Financing Commercial Retrofits ♦Local Government Initiatives to Accelerate Energy Efficiency
♦Distributed Energy Resources ♦Critical Infrastructure and CHP
♦Creating a Smart Energy Roadmap: Using Data to Drive Efficiency
♦Efficiency as an Emissions Reduction Strategy
Summit Recap
Keynotes
Dr. Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, US Department of Energy
Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capitalism Solutions
Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls and Energy, Parks Associates-View Presentation
Plenary Panel Presentations
David Low, Architecture 2030- Voluntary Challenges: 2030 District, Better Buildings, and more
Lark Lee, TetraTech- Status of Utility Efficiency Programs in the Region
Sam Gunderson, City of Fort Worth- Local Government Initiatives to Accelerate Energy
Matt Golden, Investor Confidence Project- Financing Commercial Retrofits
Christopher Lubeck, OSRAM Sylvania- Lighting: Has the Market Transformed?
Cade Burks, Big Data Energy Services- Creating a Smart Energy Roadmap: Using Data to Drive Efficiency
David Walters, Walters Power, Former Governor of Oklahoma- Distributed Energy Resources
John Hall, Environmental Defense Fund- Efficiency as an Emissions Reduction Strategy
Ian Hughes, Bayer- Energy Codes: Challenges and Opportunities
Lynn Crawford, Affiliated Engineers- Critical Infrastructure and CHP
Michael Quinn, Oncor- Utility of the Future: Integrating EE, DR, DG, and Storage
Colin Bishopp, Renewable Funding- Financing Residential Retrofits
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