Wednesday, June 11 at 3:00 pm
A curated panel and facilitator are at the ready to field your questions. At these sessions, we trust our audience to steer the conversation.
Home Energy Rebates: What's Up?
Well before DOE's Home Energy Rebate program, Northeast states successfully ran home efficiency rebate programs. HER funding has been an opportunity to build, scale, and incorporate new measures into these existing programs. This session will explore how HER funds have been deployed, how they fit into the broader landscape of home rebate programs, and what’s on the horizon. We'll look at how these rebates have interacted with other programs and, when the rubber hits the road, what that has meant for the customer experience. Panelists will share information on their state's plans for future updates and potential expansion into new building types, technologies, and customers.
Ross Anthony, Buildings and Energy Efficiency Analyst, Maine Governor's Energy Office
Nick Burger, Deputy Director, Department of Energy & Environment
Lean In: Equity in Utility Programs
Words like “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” and “justice” have become common in the energy efficiency sector, but words are only as powerful as the actions behind them. As energy costs rise and underserved communities continue to face the greatest burdens, equity cannot be treated as optional. Even as shifting political landscapes and public narratives change how this work is labeled or funded, the commitment to making sure energy solutions are accessible, effective for all, and rooted in real community needs must remain. In this session, panelists look beyond language and share how they’re building values into every layer of their work – from who’s on their teams, to how they show up in communities, to who they choose as partners. Speakers will share practical strategies for organizations to lead with purpose and how to keep doing that, even when the terms change.
Sonakshi Saxena, Strategy Lead, National Grid
Driving Portfolio Success with Energy Insights
Given the societal imperative of reliable, resilient, and affordable energy, we must effectively deploy capital to scale investment in buildings. Doing so requires combining the right technologies and projects at the building level with data-informed, portfolio-level decision making. In this session, investors and building portfolio owners will share their approaches to managing asset portfolios and offer perspectives on the types of data necessary for effective decision-making, what they're achieving and learning along the way, and what they wish they could do better. The session will also examine barriers to market enablement and scale, how those barriers can be addressed, and the collective messaging challenges to accelerate investment in the built environment.
Colleen Morris, CEO, Calico Energy