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This new FEMP webpage explains how Curtailment Service Providers (CSPs) help federal agencies participate in demand response programs by managing enrollment, operations, compliance, and incentive payments, making demand flexibility easier and less risky for sites. It also highlights the benefits of using the DLA Energy’s master agreements with pre-qualified CSPs, which streamline contracting, reduce administrative burden, and enable faster participation in utility, Independent System Operators (ISOs), and Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) demand response markets.
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Join an Upcoming FEMP Training or Working Group!
Learn How to Optimize Federal Laboratory Energy Use
Working Group | June 11, 2026 | 12–1:30 p.m. ET
Request to join the next Federal Labs Working Group meeting! FEMP organizes a quarterly, virtual working group focused on empowering laboratory owners, managers, and operators at federal agencies to reach their energy goals. The Federal Labs Working Group acts as a forum for coordinating actions and exchanging ideas about lab efficiency best practices and resources across federal laboratories and U.S. Department of Energy national labs. Members work together to implement lab efficiency strategies, integrate safety measures into research environments, enhance ventilation in federal labs, perform risk assessments for laboratory ventilation, and develop dynamic management plans for these facilities.
Participation in the forum is limited to federal agency employees and government contractors supporting the operation of laboratories in the federal sector. If you’re interested in attending, email Amanda Kirkeby to request to join.
Modeling Combined Heat and Power Systems in REopt
Training | June 29, 2026 | 3–4:15 p.m. ET
Combined heat and power (CHP) technologies are on-site generators that produce both electricity and usable heat, achieving higher fuel efficiency by capturing waste heat typically lost in power generation. CHP technologies can provide cost savings to federal facilities while also providing energy security, allowing a site to island from the grid in the case of an outage.
Join this training to explore how the National Laboratory of the Rockies’ REopt® web tool can evaluate the techno-economics of CHP technologies and systems to assess performance and financial viability. Participants will gain practical insights into using REopt to optimize site energy strategies, reduce energy costs, and improve site energy security and outage recovery.
Utility Cost Trends: Insights and Actions for Federal Energy Managers
Training | July 1, 2026 | 1–2:30 p.m. ET
Electricity demand is growing rapidly across many regions of the country, influencing electricity markets and affecting utility bills for federal customers. These trends can significantly impact federal facility operating budgets and add greater uncertainty around energy procurement planning.
This training brings together experts from FEMP, General Services Administration (GSA), and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy for a presentation and panel discussion on national and regional electricity cost trends. Participants will gain insights into the factors shaping electricity prices and explore practical steps facilities can take to manage expenses through improved procurement, tariff analysis, and demand management strategies.
Participate in an Upcoming FEMP Re-tuning Event at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia
July 14–16 | 8 a.m.–4:00 p.m. ET | NASA Langley Research Center – Hampton, VA
FEMP offers a program to federal agencies called the “Re-tuning Challenge” that offers no-cost, guided, two-to-three-day, on-site trainings held at federal facilities. Re-tuning is a systematic process aimed at reducing building energy consumption by identifying and correcting operational problems that plague buildings. Typically, these problems can be resolved by applying no-cost or low-cost measures. These trainings help agency staff and site occupants learn to identify cost-effective operational improvements that amount to significant energy and cost savings. If you would like to participate in this upcoming training, click here to learn more or email Allison Ackerman.
ESPCs from Start to Finish: A Three-Day Federal Training
Join this three-day virtual training series to learn how energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) can be used to achieve energy and water goals while modernizing federal infrastructure. Participants will learn how to successfully develop, award, and manage ESPC projects throughout the performance period, gaining practical tools and best practices to support long-term energy and water savings, infrastructure reliability, and cost-effective facility operations.
Each session builds on the last, covering each of the five phases of the ESPC project development process—from acquisition planning and project initiation through investment-grade audits, proposal evaluation, task order award, and construction implementation.
Please note: Attendees must register for each day separately.
Withstanding Natural Disasters: 1 – Wildfire Hazards and Mitigation Strategies
Training | July 21, 2026 | 1–2:00 p.m. ET
This training provides an overview of wildfire hazards, helping participants understand how factors such as vegetation, building materials, and site layout influence a federal site’s vulnerability. Potential mitigation strategies will be explored, including approaches to harden infrastructure against various wildfire impacts.
Learn How to Make Your Site Resilient
Working Group | August 4, 2026 | 2–3:00 p.m. ET
Join FEMP for the next FEMP Energy Security Roundtable! These quarterly gatherings bring together personnel from federal agencies to discuss agency progress, challenges, and best practices, while also exchanging updates on federal resilience initiatives. This forum aims to assess current advancements and perceived obstacles to energy and water resilience planning at agency sites and installations. The topic for this session will be passive survivability which is the ability to maintain safe conditions in a facility without active power or HVAC during a hazard event.
Participation in the forum is limited to federal agency employees. To express your interest in joining, fill out this form.
Join the Next Federal Water Forum Meeting
Working Group | August 13, 2026 | 2–3:00 p.m. ET
The Federal Water Forum provides federal agencies with a space to:
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Understand federal requirements for water management
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Discuss facility water management
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Learn about new technical resources and tools
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Share lessons learned and successes
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Build strategies to meet federal requirements
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Improve water efficiency and resilience.
The forum meets virtually every quarter. Participation in the forum is limited to federal agency employees. Email Jennifer Williamson to request to join.
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program builds the capacity of the federal agency workforce to achieve efficient, secure, and reliable energy use in facilities and fleets—saving taxpayers money. |
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