Initiatives, Partners, and Friends – April/May 2024
Join ESUS partners CHP HARC and Better Buildings for upcoming webinars in 2024:
Combined heat and power (CHP) is an effective and fuel-flexible way to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy costs, and decrease air emissions while improving facility resilience and meeting sustainability goals. Join us for an interactive session with a panel of industry experts that will explain how low-carbon alternatives, such as biomass and biogas, can be cost-effective and sustainable options for powering CHP systems.
Save the dates, more info to follow:
- Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT, Webinar: “Hot Ideas for Cooling Buildings, Geothermal Energy Applications”
- All CHP HARC webinar recordings are added to the ESUS website, for members who could not attend the webinar in person.
- The link to the CHP HARC March 26, 2024 webinar, “Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Advantages of Onsite Energy in Driving the Energy Transition” is now on the ISC website

LEADING BY EXAMPLE: BENEFITTING COMMUNITIES WITH HIGH-PERFORMANCE ENVELOPE
Webinar
Thursday, May 16, 2024 10:00 am – Thursday, May 16, 2024 11:00 am
Partner:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Building Envelope Campaign is designed to help building owners and managers create more energy-efficient buildings by targeting building envelope thermal performance, determining available energy savings, and providing technical support. Learn about the accomplishments and best practices the participants in the final year of the Campaign used to achieve high-performance building envelopes and discover how your organization can apply these strategies in its buildings.
FROM THE FIELD: EFFICIENT LARGE BOILER SYSTEMS
Webinar
Thursday, May 30, 2024 11:00 am – Thursday, May 30, 2024 12:00 pm
Partner:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Join the Space Conditioning Technology Research team to learn about efficient large boiler system examples in the field. From system components and performance to challenges and barriers to application, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and join the discussion.
UNLOCKING ENERGY EFFICIENCY WITH INTEROPERABLE BUILDING STANDARDS
Webinar
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 11:00 am – Wednesday, June 12, 2024 12:00 pm
Partner:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Matching data sources to software needs in advanced building systems has historically been consuming and cost intensive. Discover how semantic interoperability standards can streamline data integration and increase the effectiveness of controls to achieve efficient building systems. Join this webinar to learn about recent progress and practical suggestions for building managers in equipment procurement and upgrades.
Speakers: Michael Poplawski, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
For additional information visit Better Buildings, you will also find recordings from all of this season’s webinars: https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/events-webinars


