DC Green Scene

The Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) will host a Peer Review of the projects in its portfolio. The Peer Review will take place at the Hilton Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia.  

During this Energy and Environment Breakfast, ICF International welcomes an expert from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to discuss how energy efficiency (EE) and demand response (DR) can address the challenges of providing reliable, affordable, and environmentally responsible service to electricity customers.

This one-day annual forum brings together business stakeholders in the combined heat and power industry. 

The full Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works will convene a hearing entitled, "Hearing on the Re-nomination of Allison Macfarlane to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.”

The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold this full committee forum to focus on the extraction of gas from shale. Particular topics of interest will be current best practices within the industry and environmental concerns to be addressed.

The Wharton Club of DC will host Sam Rashkin, Chief Architect for the Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, in a roundtable discussion of the US housing industry and the intersection of business and environment. 

The CCS Security and Investment Project will host Thomas Peterson, President and CEO for Climate Strategies as he presents on strategy for the emerging energy economy.

One oft-cited explanation for underinvestment in residential energy efficiency is that homeowners do not expect to occupy their homes long enough to realize benefits that offset their investment costs. This is problematic because homeowners may not believe that the energy efficiency features of a home will be capitalized in the selling price. In this paper, RFF looks for evidence of such capitalization using data from real estate multiple listing services (MLS) in three metropolitan areas: the Research Triangle region of North Carolina; Austin, Texas; and Portland, Oregon.

D.C. Bar's Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources section will convene a panel of distinguished attorneys to discuss proposed fracking standards during a brown-bag lunch discussion.

The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "Max Tech and Beyond Appliance Design Competition." Eight faculty-led student teams from U.S. universities will present their innovative prototype designs and testing results of energy-efficient appliances and commercial equipment. The webinar will showcase each team demonstrating the energy and/or cost savings of their efficient technologies to a panel of expert judges from the private sector, the Energy Department, and its national laboratories.