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Celebrate 50 years of Federal Energy Management with a week of engaging training, collaboration, and commemorating a half-century of successes. FEMP will be hosting FEMP 50, a three-day celebration in Washington, D.C., from September 12 to 14, 2023. Join us in person or virtually for this special event where you can hear from the U.S. Department of Energy and FEMP leadership on how federal energy and water management has evolved over the years, and learn about its key successes and vision for the future.
Stay tuned for additional event and registration details coming soon!
 Coming June 2023, there will be two opportunities for the federal energy and water management community to get involved in the development of the 2024 Energy Exchange technical program. For the first time, we’ll be opening a call for session submissions from the public. Submissions will be expected to include a description, identified speakers, learning objectives, and quiz questions. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will also open a call for applications to join the Technical Planning Team, a volunteer body that helps develop the technical program to ensure that technical sessions meet key federal training needs and requirements.
Stay tuned for more information, and please contact EExTechTraining@pnnl.gov with questions.
The 2023 Federal Utility Partnership Working Group (FUPWG) Seminar boasted the largest attendance on record and featured a wide variety of federal agencies, utilities, and trade groups. The sold-out event included speakers from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Department of Energy, General Services Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, American Public Power Association, and Edison Electric Institute.
View the final agenda and event presentations.
Whether you’re in the market to buy an electric vehicle, install solar panels, or upgrade your home insulation, there are several options to help bring down energy costs while also cutting down your carbon footprint.
Save Energy. Save Money. And Save the Planet, too.
Get your Sites ZEV Ready!
Wednesday, May 31, 2pm–3pm
This live online training will demonstrate the resources in the ZEV Ready Center and interactively show how the ZEV Ready Tracker can better prepare federal sites for fleet electrification. You’ll learn how to build a "ZEV Ready" team at the site level and track your team’s success planning vehicle replacements, designing charging stations, and securing financing. Register for the training.
Coming September 2023: Early Career Professionals Program
FEMP is excited to announce the Early Career Professionals Program, bringing together a diverse and passionate group of early career professionals in the energy and water fields to support federal agencies' transition to a clean energy economy. The program focuses on training and retaining a brilliant and committed workforce in the public sector to achieve the federal government’s energy and water goals. Applications for the inaugural cohort will open on May 24, 2023, on the FEMP website.
The Early Career Professionals Program webpage contains more information, including details on the application process and the program timeline.
USDA’s Forest Product Laboratory Staff Gain New Knowledge from FEMP Re-tuning Workshop
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) plays an important role as the Nation’s only federally funded wood utilization research laboratory, since 1910. They currently employ 60 research scientists primarily or partly responsible for many of today’s wood-based technologies. Their work has contributed to increased average lumber yield per log from 25% to 60% and their wood frame technology is used in over 90% of the nation’s homes.
Much of FPL’s work is done in their laboratories, which typically use 3-4 (up to 10) times more energy than an average office building. Three of the top five energy uses in laboratories are ventilation, cooling, and heating.
Re-tuning is a no-cost to low-cost systematic process aimed at minimizing building energy consumption by identifying and correcting operational problems that plague buildings. Re-tuning relies on building automation system data to identify and implement control improvements at no cost other than the time to program the changes.
These modifications ultimately improve the buildings' energy efficiency, reduce operating costs, and increase occupant comfort.
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