March 16-18th: ACEEE 2010 National Symposium on Market Transformation

The 2010 National Symposium on Market Transformation

March 16 - 18, 2010
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC

The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy's annual Market Transformation Symposium offers the opportunity for a diverse group of attendees to network, compare programs, learn about new MT approaches, and discuss the latest issues facing the energy efficiency and market transformation communities. Session topics range from buildings programs to technology and policy updates, and cover many topics in between.

Preliminary Program (as of 01/13/10)

Plenary Session:
Between ARRA funding, increased focus on climate change, and a president who touts efficiency improvements
as “sexy,” energy efficiency is certainly enjoying its moment in the sun. How can we seize this opportunity in the
near term and continue to drive momentum into the future?
Concurrent Sessions:
1. Regional Roundup: Regional Perspectives on Energy Efficiency’s Bull Market
2. Policy: ARRA Funding for Federal, State, and Local Action
3. Emerging Strategies and Policy Mechanisms
4. Performance Policies: Setting the Stage through Benchmarking, Measured Performance and Ratings
5. Codes: Program Implications from Aggressive Building Codes
6. Recent Developments in Evaluation and Attribution: Free-Ridership, Spill Over, and Take Back
Working Sessions:
1. Whole Building Feedback and Metering Devices
2. What’s Next for Lighting Programs: How Upcoming Standards Changes are Leading to More
Comprehensive Approaches
3. Marketing Strategies for Energy Star Water Heaters
4. Understanding HVAC Efficiency Opportunities with Variable Speed Technologies
5. Residential Retrofits I: Building the Program and Policy Infrastructure for Broader and Deeper Savings
6. Residential Retrofits II: Certification/Training and Contractor Licensing, Code Official Training, and Other
Workforce Issues
7. Residential Retrofits III: Home Retrofit Financing and Incentives
8. Residential Retrofits IV: Building Rating and Residential Retrofit: From Theory to Practice
9. Commercial Real Estate: Perspectives of Developers and Property Managers in Renters/Buyers Market
10. Even a Prius Needs its Oil Changed: The Role of O&M in facilitating energy efficiency
11. Energy Information Systems in a Web-enabled World: Enabling Platform to Identify, Secure and Verify
Ongoing kWh and KW Savings
12. Innovative Retrofit Financing for the Commercial Sector
13. Approaching Industrial Energy Management as a Market Transformation Opportunity
14. The Need for Regional Coordination in Developing Industrial Energy Efficiency Programs and Policies
15. Attribution in the Age of ARRA
16. Developing Meaningful Baselines for Estimating Market Transformation Program Effects
17. Municipal Programs: Sustainable Communities Including Transit Planning; Energy, Land Use; and Water
18. Outcome-Based Energy Codes: Building a Policy for Transforming Energy Performance
19. Electrification of Personal Vehicles
20. Can Smart Grid Coexist with Energy Efficiency?

Note: this event has passed, but conference highlights and a free archive of the presentations are available on the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy's website>>