Description:
Climate change brings new urgency to efforts to improve energy efficiency and reduce absolute consumption of energy. This brown bag session can help program implementers and policy makers in North America find inspiration for new programs from energy efficiency and climate change prevention efforts in other countries.

The presenters point out a few key successes and failures from past efforts to improve energy efficiency in North America, and then review new strategies for consumer products and commercial buildings that are being adapted for the North American market. The session includes applications of scorecards, labels, and rating systems, as well as international comparisons of building performance and energy consumption. Two speakers with energy efficiency program experience that straddles the oceans consider what is needed to make ideas or practices from overseas take root and deliver significant energy savings in North America, given its geographic diversity, market structures, and program delivery mechanisms.

Moderator: Elizabeth Titus, NEEP

Speakers:
Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships Inc. - will focus on labeling and benchmarkting of commercial buildings.
Adam Hinge manages Sustainable Energy Partnerships, a small consulting firm specializing in energy efficiency program and policy issues. Sustainable Energy Partnerships works to initiate and implement viable energy efficiency projects in North America and developing countries around the world. Hinge works as an advisor to utilities, government agencies and major energy consumers in developing energy efficiency market transformation initiatives, many focusing on commercial building energy performance improvement. He also serves as an Adjunct Research Scholar for Columbia University’s Urban Energy Program, a policy research center that is part of the School of International and Public Affairs.

Chris Calwell, Ecos Consulting Inc. - will focus on strategies for consumer products.
After working for the Natural Resources Defense Council for 7 years, Chris co-founded Ecos Consulting in 1997. He currently serves as a senior research fellow at Ecos, conducting technical research, authoring reports, and giving presentations on behalf of a variety of utility, NGO, and government clients in the U.S. and internationally. His areas of expertise include residential lighting, consumer electronics, office equipment, power supplies, battery charging systems, and transportation. His work currently focuses on themes of sufficiency and progressive efficiency. Chris is internationally recognized for his ability to successfully make the technical and economic arguments for adopting stringent voluntary and mandatory product efficiency specifications.

Instructions for the AESP Brown Bag Seminar:
REGISTER TODAY by clicking in the upper right hand corner of this page.

Once your registration fee is processed, you will receive a confirmation email of your payment.  You will also receive the dial-in instructions and links to the presentations a few days before the Brown Bag.

Call in at scheduled date and time to listen and learn. Access the presentation links to follow along on your computer as the slides are discussed by the presenters on the conference call. After the presentations, you will have an opportunity to ask questions and get answers. It's that simple!

The Brown Bag call will last approximately 90 minutes (1½ hours) depending on how many questions there are from the participants. There will be a limited number of call participants, so register soon. If you have others in your organization who may also benefit from the information, sign up for group participation, grab a speakerphone and ask them to join you.

Registration Fees:

$100 AESP Member Registration Fee for 1 or more listeners sharing a single phone connection who are all AESP individual members.

$295 Non-Member Registration Fee for 1 or more listeners sharing a single phone connection when 1 or more of them are not AESP individual members. This price includes a 12-month individual membership in AESP for one of the non-member listeners.

AESP Group Member Registration Fee for 1 or more listeners sharing a single phone connection who are with an organization that is an AESP Group Member. To see if your company is an AESP Group member and learn more about this benefit, visit www.aesp.org and click on Group Member. This offer is limited to the terms negotiated with each AESP Group Member. Please contact Claudia Huss at claudia@aesp.org to register using points.