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March 20, 2023
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The FEMP Digest provides a roundup of the latest Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) news, resources, and tools. |
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Registration Open for the 2023 FUPWG Seminar
May 1-2 in Arlington, Virginia
The Federal Utility Partnership Working Group (FUPWG) provides a venue for information exchange and training that fosters effective partnerships between federal agencies and their serving utilities to develop solutions which leverage private sector investment in federal facility infrastructure to improve energy and water efficiency and support federal building decarbonization.
All are invited to attend this in-person event and continuing education units (CEUs) will be offered. Visit the FUPWG website to view the updated agenda and access the hotel reservation and registration links. If you are a federal employee and unable to make and pay for your registration at this time, please email Andrew Grejda to get on the federal employee attendee list, which reserves your spot while awaiting your approval to attend.
FEMP Audit Program Releases Facility Evaluation (Audit) Decision Tree 2.0 for Download
Have you wondered about the best audit approach for a facility in your portfolio; or if a remote audit would comply with EISA evaluation requirements? Find out by using the newly released Facilty Evaluation (Audit) Decision Tree version 2.0. It is a user-interactive selection framework that guides agencies to select the most suitable audit approach for covered facilities that can fulfill the federal comprehensive energy and water evaluation (CEWE) requirements in EISA 2007 and the Energy Act of 2020.
The audit decision tree guides users through steps based on question responses. New features include: inputs for decision tree recordkeeping, selectable answers with graphics, and detailed help boxes.
Smart Labs Update
The Smart Labs for National Labs group, which has been meeting since November 2019, has officially become a subgroup of EFCOG (Energy Facility Contractors Group) under the SEWG (Sustainability and Environment Working Group). The Smart Labs subgroup will continue to support national labs in rolling out Smart Labs programs to improve safety and energy efficiency across the sites. Joining the SEWG will support furthering DOE’s strategic sustainability and safety goals. To learn more, see the Smart Labs Toolkit or contact Rachel Romero.
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New Tools
FEMP Small Buildings O&M Checklist Tool Released
This tool helps to improve energy efficiency by effectively identifying Operations & Maintenance (O&M) opportunities in small buildings.
The tool can be customized to a site's unique combination of building systems, and the outcome can be organized by inspection frequencies (daily, weekly, monthly, semi-annually, and annually) and/or by system; maximizing efficiency and minimizing emissions.
FEMP Toolkit Provides Easy-to-Use Resources for Resilience Planning
The Federal Energy Management Program’s Technical Resilience Navigator (TRN) has added a new online toolkit to help users more easily calculate or estimate key inputs in the resilience planning process. The toolkit includes tools to help users understand which hazards may impact energy and water supply (Identify Potential Hazards), calculate how long a generator can support its critical loads during a power outage (Generator Runtime Calculator), calculate how long a redundant water system can support its critical loads during a water outage (Water Supply Runtime Calculator), and discover available state and local climate change resources that might provide more detailed information about how hazards are anticipated to be affected by climate change (Climate Change Resources).
Visit the toolkit now to learn more.
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New Resources
Sandia National Laboratories’ Holistic Data Center Design Integrates Energy- and Water-Efficiency, Flexibility, and Resilience
Sandia National Laboratories' high-performance computing (HPC) data center addition earned the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Gold Building Design and Construction (BD+C): Data Center Certification. A recent success story highlights Sandia's holistic data center approach, which provides resilient energy- and water-efficient cooling for HPC systems. With support from FEMP, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) helped Sandia optimize its data center design and operation, which uses a system of heat rejection to ensure that the data center is running efficiently and effectively. Learn more in the NREL report.
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