Events & Webinars

Join Community Energy Program Manager Marisa Bayer and Community Program and Policy Manager Katie Jones as they present a review of a sustainable building policy framework and implementation recommendations, and share examples of how Minnesota communities are using sustainable building policies to achieve their goals. This session will address how to increase resiliency and sustainability of the built environment through sustainable building policies. The session will include the process for creating a sustainable building policy and also the activities needed to successfully implement the policy. 

Join CEE's Molly Janis Smith as she presents details from the Sustainability and Resiliency Task Force she helped create for the City of Rochester. She will cover how the task force created an Action Plan for Rochester centered around the focus areas of City for Health, Accessible Transportation, Climate Change Resilience, Vibrant Neighborhoods, and Resilient Economy, and detail how the Action Plan centered the voices of communities usually excluded from decision-making, such as refugees, immigrants, BIPOC communities, non-native English speakers, and students.

Join Senior Mechanical Engineer, Russ Landry, as he presents "Commercial Boiler Controls Tune-Ups Proven Out Through Local CARD Research" at the local AEE/ASHRAE Twin Cities Energy Expo. 

CEE's Tony Beres and Dave Bohac will present this session, which will describe results of leakage measurements of new multifamily buildings – including how much of a unit’s leakage is to the exterior vs interior and what portions of the envelope have the greatest leaks. They will discuss what is causing the leaks along with sealing details and QC methods that can help produce tight multifamily buildings, and cover the common air tightness standards and procedures for measuring the exterior and total leakage of individual units along with procedures for whole building testing.

Members of CEE's New Homes team will present this session including Phil Anderson, Tony Beres, and Jake Selstad. This session will cover key considerations to ensure the comfort, durability, efficiency, air quality, and low loads are met. Examples of high performance heat pumps for heating and cooling, as well as quality installation practices will be shown. Our team will discuss envelope details that lower heating and cooling loads. Indoor air quality is very important and examples of good designs will be fleshed out. There will be an overview of the many certifications and incentives that exist to help guide the entire process and ensure the end results are met, and an overview of some case studies to show some real world examples of high performance all electric homes.

CEE's Grant Carlson and Russ Landry will present at this session. This session will both provide an introduction to how the strategy of outdoor air reset control provides energy savings and comfort improvements in multifamily buildings, and detail the results of a recently completed research study commissioned by the State of Minnesota. The session will also explore the intersection of outdoor air reset control optimization with the increasing market impact of condensing boilers and their operating efficiency sensitivity to operating conditions. While this study focused on improvements to existing buildings, the lessons learned are also critical to realizing maximum performance in new multifamily buildings.

CEE's Becky Olson will join Darnell Johnson and Jamez Staples in this presentation of the new workforce development program plans. 

CEE's Rabi Vandergon, Ben Schoenbauer, and Isaac Smith will present results from multiple CARD-funded studies related to ccASHPs, an overview and results from a modeling tool developed for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA), and an overview of the MN ASHP Collaborative to give a comprehensive overview of Air Source Heat Pumps. 

CEE's Isaac Smith will present this session with MEEA. This presentation will provide an overview of the single-family energy disclosure policy the City of Minneapolis passed January 2020. This pilot leverages data from the energy disclosure policy and offers homeowners an energy advisor service to help coach them through energy improvements. The session will also cover the results from the first 18 months of the pilot, which included targeted mailers to over 6,000 new homeowners, as well as case studies and Realtor education.

Join Brady Steigauf and Katie Jones as they present set up and findings from the Focus on Energy rural communities pilot the Save to Give Challenge, and how the program dealt with reaching rural communities, energy efficiency, and leveraged residents' existing motivations, an energy feedback platform, and a community challenge to spur energy savings.