CalBEM’s purpose is to empower California’s building energy modeling (BEM) community to identify, explore, and prioritize the challenges they share, and then support solutions to those challenges to help to promote low-carbon buildings.

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CalBEM 2024

The 9th Annual CA Building Energy Modeling Symposium

Kimpton Sawyer Hotel, 500 J St, Sacramento, CA

No registration fee

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Highlighted CalBEM 2024 Presentations and Speakers:

The Intersection of Home Energy Labels and Energy Modeling

Moderator: Maddie Koewler, NASEO

Panelists:
Emily Alvarez, StopWaste
Noel Merket, NREL
Neal Kruis, Big Ladder Software (Representing RESNET)
Mudit Saxena, Xero Home

Energy Modeling for Building Performance: BEM meets BPS

Moderator: Nick Allen-Sandoz, A2 Efficiency

Panelists:
Gabriel Taylor, CEC
Laurel Schandelmier, Glumac
Sam Mason, Code Green Solutions
Mike Tillou, PNNL

Advancing BEM Certifications: Overcoming Barriers in California and Nationwide

Moderator: Dave Intner, Southern California Edison

Panelists:
Gina Rodda, Gabel Energy
Sally Blair, NORESCO
Dimitri Contoyannis, Model Efficiency

Eric Wilson

Strategic Advisor, U.S. Department of Energy (on detail from NREL)

Eric Wilson will provide the CalBEM 2024 keynote address, presenting on the recently published National Blueprint for Decarbonizing the Buildings Sector by 2050. As a building energy modeler by training, he will speak to the role that modelers play in achieving this ambitious vision to aggressively reducing building greenhouse gas emissions while delivering equity, affordability, and resilience benefits to communities.

Dr. Amir Roth

Technology Manager, Building Energy Modeling and Control Platforms, U.S. Department of Energy

Dr. Amir Roth will provide a plenary address exploring the benefits and challenges of introducing consensus (interoperability) standards to building energy modeling, and briefly discuss what future standards may be helpful to the industry.


What is CalBEM?

CalBEM (California Building Energy Modeling) is a stakeholder collective and an annual statewide event hosted by Southern California Edison on behalf of the California Investor-Owned Utilities. CalBEM collaborates to identify and pursue systemic solutions in building energy modeling that advance California’s climate action goals. CalBEM participants come together each year at the annual Symposium to join interactive collaboration sessions and learn from energy modeling leaders across CA. Workshop sessions will cover each of CalBEM’s three Working Groups: Streamline & Simplify Processes, Educate Users, and Improve Capabilities & Accuracy.

Read more about CalBEM’s core goals and what the Working Groups are up to these days.


You can access past meeting materials on the Archive page.


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