Understanding Energy Measurement And Management For Your Company

Course Information:

February – date TBD, 2010
9:00am – 5:00pm
Lloyd Center Doubletree Executive Meeting Center
1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland, OR 97232
Early Bird (ends February 1st, 2010): $259
Late registration: $299

This project funded in whole or part with funds from Employer Workforce Training Funds administered by the Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and Worksystems, Inc.

Overview

Join us for this two-day course as we explore emerging technologies and innovative systems that measure energy and provide energy users with real-time feedback. The old axiom “What gets measured gets done” will be updated in this course to “What gets measured gets saved.” Until now, we have known that saving energy benefits the triple bottom line (economy, environment, society) – but we have not had the tools in place to provide us with real-time feedback on how our companies’ operations impact energy use. Join the ranks of the empowered (and networked) energy user. Learn about the benefits that can accrue to companies that measure energy consumption as a means to change consumption practices. Best of all, you will get the “how-to” aspects of implementing an energy measurement program at your company and walk away a more sought after employee and business leader.

Prerequisites

Professional experience developing and/or implementing strategic business plans
Prior knowledge of measurement in energy, water, waste, etc. ideal, but not required
Professional experience managing or measuring systems (energy, water, waste, etc.) for your company preferred, but not required

Intended Audience

The two-day training program targets entrepreneurs, senior management employees who are responsible for setting companies’ strategic direction, as well as employees who will have some responsibility for implementing energy measurement in strategic sustainability programs.

Course Outline

Why You Need This Course:
Organizations are moving ahead to develop energy systems that provide decision-makers and energy users with real-time information about energy use. These innovative practices will soon diffuse throughout all business and industry because of the cost-savings and environmental impacts that will accrue from their implementation. Learn about these systems, their uses, and their benefits ahead of the curve and make yourself an invaluable asset to your work environment and the planet.

Training Objectives:

Discuss energy systems and concepts – including terminology, cost structures (peak and off-peak), and the grid (buying from and selling to the grid)
Differentiate between decentralized and alternative energy and “the grid”
Understand the benefits of calculating carbon emissions from energy use
Discuss the benefits of measuring energy use and carbon to drive strategic business decisions
Define the business value in measurement and reduction of energy and carbon
Describe the measurement of Energy Best Practices
Combine the measurement of energy use data with Energy Best Practices

Agenda:

Introducing Energy and Carbon – and why they are inseparable
- What Gets Measured Gets Attention and What Gets Attention Gets Done
- Carbon and Energy
- Measuring Energy Use and Carbon to Drive Strategic Business Decisions
Energy and Carbon in Strategic Management
- Examining Potential Tools
- Simple, Effective Ways to Measure Energy Consumption in a Business Setting
- Introduce More Advanced Energy Measurement Tools and Concepts
Operationalizing Energy Measurement Systems
Practicum

Reviewing Participants’ Selected Product or Service
Define the Business Value in Measurement and Reduction of Energy and Carbon
Energy Best Practices
Measuring Energy Use
Implementation of an On-Going Energy Measurement System
What Are We Going to do with the Energy Data?

Next Steps

Discuss the implementation issues and barriers
Develop next steps

Instructor Bio

Phil Berry helps clients build economic value in their businesses through his company, Sustainable Product Works, LLC. He helps clients create this value through development and communication of meaningful innovations and reductions in the social and environmental impacts of products, services and supply chains.

From 1996 through 2007, Phil was Nike’s Director of Footwear Sustainability.

In 2005, Phil was part of the team that developed Nike’s first product to be marketed as “more sustainable.” Nike’s “Considered Boot” earned the prestigious Gold IDEA award from Industrial Design Society of America.

In 2006, Business Ethics Magazine named the environmental program Phil helped develop at Nike: “the best corporate environmental program in the U.S.”

In 2007, Phil was chosen by Al Gore’s “Climate Project” as one of the 1,000 people globally to be personally trained by Al Gore to deliver his climate change presentation.

Prior to Nike, Phil worked for more than 17 years in a variety of roles managing environmental programs and issues:

Consultant to business and government on issues of business efficiency and environmental impact in China, Thailand and India;
Teaching resource efficient manufacturing to Oregon businesses for Oregon DEQ, the state environmental regulatory agency;
Developing and implementing environmental programs for private sector employers in electronics, aerospace and chemical coatings.

Phil has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Science from Portland State University. He lives with his wife, Joanna, their youngest daughter and three dogs in the rural Willamette Valley south of Portland, Oregon. They have a grown son and a daughter attending the University of Washington in Seattle.