Google's Approach to Decarbonizing the Built Environment - Asim Tahir, Google; Dr. Rob Best, Arup; Eric Solrain, Integral Group Google’s approach to district energy for its development projects applies circular economy principles to increase resource recovery and decarbonize the built environment. The first of these projects, Bay View, is currently under construction and has the largest geo-energy pile system in North America. Additional projects applied variations to this design including geo-energy bore holes under mat foundations and TES to meet the aspirations while respecting the specific opportunities and constraints of each project.
Speakers.
Dr. Rob Best, Senior Engineer, Energy & Sustainability, Arup
Asim Tahir, District & Renewable Energy Lead, Google
Eric Solrain, Senior Principal, US West Engineering Design Leader, Integral Group

The to the future opening panel will energize the audience through enlightening IDEAs and engaging expertise. 

Speakers. 

Lalit Agarwal, Director, Maintenance & Utility Services, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Robert (Bert) Bland, Associate VP, Energy & Sustainability, Cornell University
Ted Borer, Director, Energy Plants, Princeton University
Joan Kowal, Senior Director, Resilience & Utility Strategies, Emory University
Meghan Riesterer, Assistant Vice President, Campus Energy & Sustainability, Oberlin College & Conservatory

A discussion with district energy professionals on how they are handling the effects of the pandemic on system operations.
Speakers.
Samuel Chatterton, Vice President, Product Technical Support and Operations, Global Chiller Products, Johnson Controls
James Lodge, President, Clearway Community Energy
David Musto, President & CEO, Thermo Systems
Michael Schack, Group Director Operational Marketing, Engie
Steve Swinson, President & CEO, TECO

Speakers. 

Nathan Ninemire

Marc Sernad

Michael Ahern

Mark Donovan

UT Austin - Reducing Energy Consumption Even With 20% Campus Growth - Juan Ontiveros, UT Austin; Ben Erpelding, Optimum Energy Optimum Energy Operation - Neelraj Sambasivam, Johnson Controls  UT Austin - Reducing Energy Consumption Even With 20% Campus Growth - Juan Ontiveros, UT Austin; Ben Erpelding, Optimum Energy To meet Campus growth, the University of Texas at Austin has found that it’s far more economical to be more efficient rather than invest in new power production capacity. Over the last 10 years, UT has achieved what seems impossible: reducing the chilled water system’s overall energy usage even as the campus grew by 20%.  This presentation will detail the energy efficiency and Thermal Energy Storage (TES) measures implemented and their respective results. Optimum Energy Operation - Neelraj Sambasivam, Johnson Controls When selecting the best technology for chiller operation you can choose variable speed or constant speed drives. In this presentation we will review these two options and showcase a case study from Dubai, UAE to demonstrate the outcome of utilizing variable speed drive.  Even in a high load operation like district cooling there is great benefit to this technology choice.

Speakers.
Juan Ontiveros, Associate Vice President for Utilities, Energy and Facilities Management, University of Texas at Austin
Neelraj Sambasivam, Product Manager, Chillers, Johnson Controls 
Ben Erpelding, Chief Technology Officer, Optimum Energy

A Low Carbon, Low Water Campus Heat Recovery Chiller Strategy for Moderate Climates - Henry Johnstone, GLHN Architects and Engineers  Three Applications of Heat Recovery Chillers supporting LTHW at UVA - Paul Zmick, University of Virginia A Low Carbon, Low Water Campus Heat Recovery Chiller Strategy for Moderate Climates - Henry Johnstone, GLHN Architects and Engineers Heat recovery chiller technology offers to substantially reduce both the carbon emissions and water consumption footprints of district heating-cooling plants by offsetting site fossil fuel combustion and cooling tower water consumption. Practical obstacles associated with its’ performance constraints and initial capital and operating expense have often prevented its application. This situation may be improving. This presentation provides a case study of opportunities and challenges involved in applying heat recovery chiller technology to existing central heating and cooling districts.  Three Applications of Heat Recovery Chillers supporting LTHW at UVA - Paul Zmick, University of Virginia This presentation is a case study examining three unique central plant heat recovery chiller applications connected to three unique low-temperature hot water loops.  The first is an example of new construction (plant, distribution, and connected load) based on a design temperature of 135F and multiple small heat recovery chillers.  The second is a single large heat recovery chiller being installed in series with the existing main heat plant boilers connected to over 10M SQFT of existing buildings based on a design temperature of 170F.  The third is the new installation of second-generation of heat recovery chillers in an existing plant supporting both existing and new construction with a design temperature ranging from 140 to 180F.

Speakers.
Paul Zmick, Senior Associate Director  UVA Energy & Utilities, University of Virginia
Henry Johnstone, President & Director, Mechanical Engineering, GLHN Architects and Engineers

Perspectives on P3 from Years of Advisory Eperience on Both Sides of the Fence - Mark Spurr and James Bohn, FVB Energy Inc. Expansion and Modernization of Existing Systems as an Economic Development Strategy - William Joyce, CHA Consulting  Perspectives on P3 from Years of Advisory Eperience on Both Sides of the Fence - Mark Spurr and James Bohn, FVB Energy Inc This presentation explores the whys and hows of P3 based on years of advisory experience on both sides of the fence representing institutions as well as private partners. I will discuss the interrelated issues of institutional goals, risk allocation, deal structure and procurement process, summarize lessons learned and offer advice for both the institutions and the private players.  Expansion and Modernization of Existing Systems as an Economic Development Strategy - William Joyce, CHA Consulting Commercial and industrial brown-field developments are key to maintaining sustainable economic development in high density areas throughout North America.  Such developments should consider the coincidental thermal/electrical demand profiles of neighboring facilities and examine opportunities to agglomerate the ownership and operational requirements of the facility cluster early in the planning stages of the redevelopment.  Agglomeration of “behind the meter” district energy schemes for these types of projects are key to attracting industries that require a reliable, resilient and economical utility cost base.

Speakers.
John Joyce, Manufacturing & Energy Market Lead, CHA Consulting, Inc.
James Bohn, Principal, FVB Energy Inc.
Mark Spurr, Principal, FVB Energy Inc.

The campus utility marketplace has many drivers for considering resilience in response to outside influences such as storms, fires, and floods.  These drivers may include protecting human life, key research, community safety, and product integrity.  Although the missions may be different, military bases are developing processes to assess resiliency of their mission critical infrastructure to maintain mission readiness.  This presentation will provide an overview of the strategic process implemented by the US Air Force to evaluate each installation’s current resilience profile and discuss how this approach can be utilized at a variety of campus environments

Speakers.
Mark  Miller, Practice Leader - Federal Resources, HDR
Kurt Koenig, National Practice Leader - Power Generation, HDR

This presentation will be based upon a recently-completed energy project at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada which has implemented CHP as an energy reduction and resiliency improvement project. There were energy-related challenges which lead to the project and the specific regulatory, environmental and permitting requirements . There were key technical elements which were integrated to address these challenges, in particular the presentation will focus on how the 8 MW CHP was integrated with 8 MW of existing diesel generators and the campus’ existing steam system to greatly improve the campus’ energy supply resiliency. The goal of the presentation is to leave attendees with ideas for improving the energy supply resiliency.

Speaker.
Steve Quinlan, Manager of Electrical Engineer, CEM Engineering

This presentation will examine a college switching its central plant from steam heating and chillers to a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) using its gas turbine as the prime mover.  The paper will describe the historical operations prior to the 2008 installation, the environmental approval process, operations with the new system, the financial benefit of making electricity (purchase vs generation), exportation of electricity, state incentives for CHPs and the new operating procedures.

Speaker.
Stephen Slocomb,Principal,Epsilon Associates