Kevin Vranes, Director, Energy Management Services, E Source

If sustainability were quick and easy—as many consultants suggest—we would have done it by now. Everyone is talking green, but global carbon dioxide emissions are climbing, and climate scientists tell us that we have under a decade to solve the problem. We need fewer visionaries and more grunts. It’s time to make stuff happen. And the only way we can do that is by honestly discussing our failures, not just applauding our successes, and by better understanding the barriers to progress, which are more human than technological. Both brutally honest and hopeful, Auden Schendler offers a peek under the hood of the “green” movement, showing what it means to implement climate solutions in the real world, addressing now just how to do it, but why we should care at all.

Auden Schendler, Vice President of Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Co.

Do you have lots of energy data available to you—such as 15-minute-interval energy consumption, building automation system logs, and physical building information? With new software and service packages, you can turn those data into actionable information that will enable your facility staff to reduce energy consumption. Come to this session to learn how to choose software packages and what’s still unknown about their effectiveness.

Gary Hogsett, Program Manager, CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.
Jay Stein, Executive Vice President, E Source
Lillian Zaremba, Climate & Energy Engineer, University of British Columbia

In this session, we’ll explore what has changed in our understanding of people’s behavior and corporate decision-making as we strive to make companies more energy efficient and sustainable.

Julie Smith, Plant Optimization Engineer, MillerCoors Brewing Company
Moe Tabrizi, Energy Conservation Manager, University of Colorado Boulder

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is an NSF- and NASA-funded facility housed at the University of Colorado that crunches and stores some of the most important Earth-observing satellite data produced to track changes in climate. Dave Gallaher and his team recently completed a stunning feat: Using only off-the-shelf technology, they retrofitted an operating data center in a 1960s concrete-and-cinder-block building, and achieved an operating PUE of 1.08. They cut their cooling load by more than 80 percent, even in the hottest parts of the summer. Their solution has earned them numerous energy-efficiency and green IT awards, visits from political luminaries and major IT corporations, and a two-year payback. The addition of a 50-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system on the roof turned their data center into a zero-net-energy installation. In this special session, we'll take a short field trip to the NSIDC. We'll tour the facility and hear Dave and the project engineer tell us how the project was born, what the challenges were, and why the governor and both U.S. senators from Colorado felt compelled to take time out of their busy schedules to see the facility.

David Gallaher, Manager, IT Services, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Rick Osbaugh, Director of Advanced Energy Systems, The RMH Group

Energy-efficiency technologies change fast. Brilliant new solutions and ineffective “black boxes” are released constantly—it can be difficult to keep track of which is which. That’s why the E Source tech team will present this rapid-fire roundup of energy-efficiency techniques and technologies. We’ll highlight the latest emerging and commercially viable technologies that are presenting genuine opportunities.

Moderator: Essie Snell, Senior Associate, Research, E Source
Peter Criscione, Manager, Research, E Source
Lee Hamilton, Associate, Research, E Source
Mary Horsey, Manager, Research, E Source
Ira Krepchin, Director, Research, E Source
Jay Stein, Executive Vice President, E Source

Have you ever been sitting in your office, wondering, “What will my energy technologies look like in five years?” How do you answer your own question? Sure, you can keep up with the blogs and try to catch glimpses into what the prognosticators are saying, but wouldn’t it be better if you could just ask the top research and development engineers for the major lighting, HVAC, and building energy management companies? Well, that’s what you’ll get to do in this session!

Moderator: Kevin Vranes, Director, Energy Management Services, E Source
Dennis Bradley, Technology Manager, LED Innovation, General Electric Lighting
Thomas Glennon, Director of Engineering, Honeywell

This year’s roundtable will include a tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) LEED Platinum Research Support Facility, near Boulder, Colorado. The tour will give you an opportunity to learn how passive solar design, natural ventilation, daylighting, a rooftop photovoltaic system, triple-glazed windows, a next-generation data center, and other design and operational components contribute to the building’s nationally recognized success in saving energy. Transportation will be provided; preregistration is required.

Dinner is $50 per person; preregistration is required.

Each year, we close the conference with our most popular session: the Members’ Exchange. In this moderated, dynamic, fast-flowing affair, conference attendees will learn from one another what worked in the past year, what’s planned for the upcoming year, how their employees and upper management are talking about energy, and what they need help with. Come armed with lots of questions for your peers and brief stories to share, and be prepared to enter the current of this lively and thought-provoking discussion!

Mike Hildebrand, Director, Business and Residential Market Services, E Source
Kevin Vranes, Director, Energy Management Services, E Source

Kevin Vranes, Director, Energy Management Services, E Source