• Benchmarking portfolio-wide energy use
• Sustainable financial resources
• Staffing capacity
• Securing and maintaining enduring champions of EE programs

Cindy Tatham, Sustainability Manager, City of Beaverton
Lauren Dufort, Director of Sustainability, Central Atlanta Progress, (Atlanta, GA)
Holly Luna, Chief Financial Officer, Douglas County School District
Tim Murphy, Commissioner, Division of Environmental Services, City of Toledo
Stu Reeve, Energy Manager, Poudre School District
Autumn Salamack, Resource Conservation Manager, Kitsap County

Jessica Prosser, Sustainability Coordinator, City of Arvada
Bob Ericson, Town Planner, Town of North Smithfield
Ken Cronin, Director of General Services/Sustainability, City of Roanoke

Dennis Kuchenmeister, Director of Buildings and Grounds, Ft. Atkinson School District
Dean Olson, Division Director, Will County
Yvette Rincon, Sustainability Manager, City of Sacramento
Monica Stone, Energy Program Manager, State of Iowa
Penni Redford, Sustainability Manager, City of West Palm Beach
Nicholas Schiavo, Energy Specialist, City of Santa Fe
Sam Ruark, Energy Watch Program Manager, Sonoma County
Sam Steele, Administrator of Sustainability Programs, City of Fort Worth

Gavin Dillingham, Manager of Energy and Sustainability, Houston Independent School District
Heidi Burkurt, Operations Coordinator, Camas School District
Matt Gray, Director, Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, City of Cleveland
Eric Rehm, Guaranteed Energy Savings Program Project Manager, Minnesota Department of Commerce, Division of Energy Resources, State of Minnesota
Jeff Hamman, Energy Specialist, Portland, OR Public Schools

Strategic energy management helps communities build on initial success to achieve greater and sustained savings by moving from individual projects to organization-wide programs. Hear from state and local leaders who embrace energy management and engage in roundtable discussions on principles such as setting goals, rigorously tracking data, and publicizing results.

Peter Brandom, Sustainability Manager, City of Hillsboro, OR
Eric Rehm, Guaranteed Energy Savings Program Project Manager, State of Minnesota
Najib Salehi, Energy Manager, Loudon County, VA

States and local communities share approaches for engaging a public network to broaden efforts toward energy efficiency goals. Panelists will describe their model approaches, identify the key elements, and provide their perspective on the results, benefits, and lessons learned.

Meg Lusardi, Director, Green Communities Division, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Alicia Hunt, Energy Efficiency Coordinator, City of Medford, MA
Jennifer Manierre, Associate Project Manager, Climate Smart Communities, State of New York
Anne Spaulding, Energy and Sustainability Manager, City of Rochester, NY
Renee Hutcheson, Energy Architect, State of North Carolina

Explore the programs of three Better Buildings Challenge Community Partners and hear how they designed, launched, and staff their programs to effectively engage private building owners and operators in their communities. Speakers will share approaches to attract participation from the private sector, creative methods in finding resources to support the effort, and techniques to maintain momentum and interest in local energy efficiency programs.

Lisa Lin, Sustainability Manager, City of Houston, TX
David Hodgins, President, Sustento Group (Los Angeles, CA)
Lauren Dufort, Director, Sustainability Central Atlanta Progress (Atlanta, GA)

Policies on building energy benchmarking and disclosure and building codes are critical elements in expanding energy efficiency programs across private sector buildings. Speakers will explain how these policies and programs can harness market forces to value energy efficiency, and describe necessary steps to replicating this success in your community. DOE presenters will include updates on a variety of data access initiatives including: Green Button, data access maps, and EM&V standardization efforts.

John Morrill, Energy Manager, Arlington County, VA
Marshall Duer-Balkind, Benchmarking Program Analyst, District of Columbia
Ian Finlayson, Manager, Buildings and Climate Programs, State of Massachusetts

Learn the range of internal policies and strategies instrumental to creating comprehensive and sustainable energy management programs, including strategies to develop staff, reduce costs, and improve internal operations. Speakers will describe how they developed and implemented internal funding and accounting policies, effective performance contracting and procurement, and training staff for continuous improvement.

Barbara Buffaloe, Sustainability Manager, City of Columbia, MO
Patrick Dail, Project Director, Energy Management Training, The City University of New York
Holly Luna, CFO, Douglas County Schools, NV
James Sloss, Energy & Utilities Manager, City of Pittsburgh, PA
Christian Williss, Sustainability Program Administrator, City of Denver

Following “Enabling Energy Efficiency Across the Public Sector – Session One,” participants will take part in breakout discussions on the key elements of developing and implementing public-public partnerships, including policy and technical assistance strategies to engage a variety of public sector entities, examples of recognition programs, and potential funding streams for continuous energy upgrades.

Meg Lusardi, Director, Green Communities Division, State of Massachusetts
Alicia Hunt, Energy Efficiency Coordinator, City of Medford, MA
Jennifer Manierre, Associate Project Manager, Climate Smart Communities, State of New York
Anne Spaulding, Energy and Sustainability Manager, City of Rochester, NY
Renee Hutcheson, Energy Architect, State of North Carolina

Utilities, energy service providers, and nonprofits are some of the key organizations for state and local governments to leverage as key strategic partners to align objectives and broaden private sector engagement. Speakers will explain how they work with such organizations in their communities to create energy efficiency programs that effectively reach and serve their broader communities.

Julia Burrows, President & Executive Director, Greenwise, (Sacramento, CA)
Mary Templeton, Project Manager, Michigan Saves (Michigan)
Sally Talberg, Senior Consultant, Michigan Saves (Michigan)
Brian Geller, Executive Director, 2030 District, (Seattle, WA)
Scott Pomeroy, Sustainability Manager, Downtown DC Business Improvement District (District of Columbia)

Communities can maximize their energy savings and job creation potential by integrating policies to address both. Learn how an integrated set of policies can help ensure a healthy long-term industry providing energy efficiency services to both the private and public sectors. These policy approaches can include benchmarking, energy audits, retrocommissioning, and energy efficiency upgrades.

TBD, City of New York, NY
Barry Hooper, Private Sector Green Building Program, City of San Francisco, CA
Scott Jarman, Consulting Engineer, City of Austin, TX

• Upcoming DOE tools and activities including the Standard Energy Efficiency Database, State Energy Program competitive grants, Green Button, and financing activities
• Better Buildings Challenge activities and technical assistance resources such as peer exchange and solution center plans
• State and Local Energy Efficiency Action (SEE Action) resources update on working groups, resources, and tools
• DOE research and technical focus areas that are relevant to the public sector including emerging technologies, technology review portal, and workforce certification activities

Learn from state and local peers the potential of performance based contracting, how to drive value, measure savings, and achieve successful retrofit projects using a holistic approach. Lessons learned in lowering project cost and realizing true energy savings.

Susanna H. Sutherland, Office of Sustainability, City of Knoxville, TN
Cal Clark, Director of Maintenance and Operations, Mesa County Valley School District #51
Geoff Culm, Senior Vice President Energy Services, Bank of America Public Capital Corp, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jim Knutson, President, Consensus, LLC
Dustin Knutson, Senior Vice President, Banc of America Public Capital Corp

Learn the fundamentals of financing programs and how to leverage limited public funds with private capital to achieve results. State and local program managers, along with DOE and National Laboratory staff will share lessons learned and speak about opportunities across the country. Panel discussion will include information on Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds, the 179D federal tax credit, Property Assessed Clean Energy programs, and secondary markets.

Mark Zimring, Senior Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jeff Pitken, Treasurer, New York State Energy Research Development Authority
TBD, State of Pennsylvania
Matthew Brown, Principal, Harcourt Brown & Carey Energy & Finance

Spend an intensive session exploring the evolution of economic development with a new focus on energy. State and local governments across the country have created new public-private partnerships to achieve public goals with private markets. Learn how your jurisdiction can start down this path, and where it will likely lead.

Susan Leeds, CEO, New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation
Patrick Sheehan, State of Florida
David Hodgins, President, Sustento Group

Learn how others integrate energy and carbon reduction methods into broad economic development platforms, including Business Development Districts, downtown development strategies, and technology and manufacturing corridors.

Johanna Brickman, Manager of the Sustainable Built Environment Program, Oregon BEST
Eric Shreffler, Managing Director of the Cluster Development Team, Michigan Economic Development Corporation
Aliza Wasserman, Senior Policy Analyst for Environment, Energy & Transportation, National Governors Association for Best Practices

Programs can achieve broad sustainability-related goals such as water conservation, recycling, and sustainable land use zoning while also saving energy and creating jobs. Speakers will explain how these programs address issues critical in their community, how they leverage these projects to also save energy, and how similar success may be replicated in your community.

Carrie Pollard, Principal Programs Specialist, Sonoma County Water Agency, CA
English Bird, Executive Director, New Mexico Recycling Coalition
Eloisa Portillo-Morales, Sustainability Program Engineer, City of El Paso, TX

This session will highlight three successful examples of regional and multi-jurisdictional partnerships that use aggregated purchasing, attractive financing mechanisms, and economies of scale to deliver a range of energy efficiency services and expertise, greater energy savings, and economic growth opportunities to their communities.

Roger Kroh, Energy Conservation Project Manager, Mid-America Regional Council
Kevin Moyer, Executive Director, Energy Programs, Toldeo-Lucas County Port Authority
Erika Vandenbrande, Economic Development Manager, City of Redmond

Across the country, state and local governments are developing innovative policies and strategies for the adoption of updated energy codes and standards to drive further energy efficiency in their communities. Stretch codes, collaborative stakeholder working groups, working with utilities to increase compliance, and tactics for increased code adoption with decreased resources will be discussed.

Adam Cooper, Research Manager, Institute for Electric Efficiency
Megan Cuzzolino, Residential Sustainability Specialist, City of Boulder
Carolyn Sarno, Senior Program Manager, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
Ian Finlayson, Manager, Department of Energy Resources, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

• Data discussions including: Data management systems, disclosure policies, data collection process, data analysis, data verification
• Finance discussions including: ESPCs, PACE, QECB, 179d
• Public-private partnership discussions including: driving demand, creating a financing and service provider network, data management