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 2O26
The 11th California Building Energy Modeling Symposium
November 18-19, 2026
Kimpton Sawyer Hotel, 500 J St, Sacramento, CA
No registration fee
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CalBEM 2O25 Speakers
Keynote
Dr. Eric Fournier, UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
Achieving Building Decarbonization Through Large-Scale Data Analytics
Eric Fournier is the research director at the California Center for Sustainable Communities (CCSC) – a research center housed within UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Over the past decade, he has led work on grant-funded research projects for a variety of state agencies (CEC, CARB, CPUC, SGC, LADWP, etc.) focused on building decarbonization and distributed energy resources adoption.
In his keynote address, Eric will discuss several emerging challenges related to the implementation of California’s decarbonization initiatives whose solutions implicate the marriage of large scale building energy datasets with advanced building energy modeling techniques.
Plenary
Mike Sokol, Director, Efficiency Division, California Energy Commission
Affordability and Equity in California’s Energy Future
You can access past meeting materials on the CalBEM Records page.
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.
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