Opportunities & New Frontiers in Building Energy Efficiency

On-Demand Webinar

In a world of pressing environmental needs and resource constraints, energy efficiency is crucial to the success of every business and climate strategy. Because buildings consume over 40% of our energy, many people may see them as key concerns to our long-term sustainability. In this webinar, you’ll learn to see every construction and building operation as an opportunity to create change.

Join Stanford experts Dian Grueneich, Stephen Comello, and William Chueh to discover how to lead transformation within the building energy efficiency ecosystem. This webinar will benefit professionals in the energy industry, policymakers, and those engaged in government agencies. It’s also ideal for those managing facilities, architectural and construction entities, real estate and related industries. Register today to hear about opportunities in decarbonization, and learn a holistic approach that will help you create the future with better energy management.

You will learn to:
  • Analyze every building energy efficiency project using four key elements
  • Contextualize building energy efficiency needs, efforts, and achievements in a global landscape
  • Include data-driven insights in your projects and programs
  • Identify and seize opportunities across the building energy efficiency landscape

About the Speakers

Dian Grueneich is a Precourt Energy Scholar at the Stanford Precourt Institute of Energy, and Commissioner Emeritus of the California Public Utilities Commission. She has worked on energy policy for over four decades and has received numerous awards for her work on energy efficiency, including the 30th Anniversary Award of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) for Outstanding Contribution and its National Champion of Energy Efficiency Award, and EE Global Forum’s first “Visionary Award” for Leadership in Developing the California Long-Term Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan. She has also served on external advisory committees to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is a Senior Fellow with the New Buildings Institute.

Stephen Comello leads the Energy Business Innovations focus area at Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a senior research fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. He is also techno-economic and policy lead for Stanford University’s Bits & Watts Initiative and StorageX Initiative. His work examines how technology, policy, and organizations coevolve to influence the business models and economic attractiveness of advanced energy solutions. He advises academic, industry, government and non-governmental organizations on strategies for clean technology deployment. Within his current portfolio, he explores policy and business model innovation within the electricity sector, with one set of projects focusing on how digital platform technology diffusion intersects with structural changes in the industry.

Will Chueh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, and a faculty scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He leads a group of more than thirty researchers tackling the challenge of decarbonizing various energy transformation pathways, and co-directs Stanford's StorageX Initiative that builds academic-industrial partnerships to accelerate the electrification of transportation and the penetration of intermittent renewable electricity in energy systems. He received his BS in applied physics, and his MS and PhD in materials science from Caltech. Prior to joining Stanford in 2012, he was a Distinguished Truman Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. Chueh has received numerous honors, including the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2018), Volkswagen/BASF Science Award Electrochemistry (2016), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2016), Sloan Research Fellowship (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Solid State Ionics Young Scientist Award (2013), Caltech Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Energy (2012), and the American Ceramics Society Diamond Award (2008). In 2012, he was named as one of the “Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35” by MIT’s Technology Review.

Presented By
Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies and Strategies for Sustainability Program certificate programs

Questions?
Please contact us at [email protected] or 650-273-5459.
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