July 21 – July 25, 2025
Virtual
Kick off your summer learning with a series of engaging online trainings hosted by Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) staff and subject matter experts. These sessions provide essential workforce development opportunities for federal energy and water managers and the broader energy management community.
Ready for the next level? The summer workshops lay the groundwork for the training offered at FEMP Summer CAMP in August.
Schedule
Select a session to learn more. Registration for each workshop will be available soon. Check back for details!
Monday, July 21
Federal Progress on Key Statutory Energy Requirements
Monday, July 21, 2025, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
This session will provide an overview of fiscal year 2024 federal government progress on key statutory requirements to reduce energy and water use intensity in federal buildings (42 U.S. Code § 8253(a)), use electricity from renewable sources (42 U.S. Code § 15852), invest in cost-effective efficiency measures in federal buildings (42 U.S. Code § 8253(f)), and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (42 U.S.C. § 17143).
Managing Energy Performance Contracts with Confidence: Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer Representatives Training
Monday, July 21, 2025, 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Federal contracting officers (COs) and contracting officer representatives (CORs) play critical roles in the execution and oversight of energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) and utility energy service contracts (UESCs). Unlike traditional acquisitions, these contracts require specialized knowledge of energy performance-based contracting, energy project financing, and long-term contract administration.
This workshop is designed to equip COs and CORs, as well as other key stakeholders (e.g., energy managers, project facilitators, and energy service companies [ESCOs]) with the expertise needed to successfully manage ESPCs and UESCs from project initiation to contract closeout. The multiple-day sessions will cover pre-award activities, award, and post-award through project closeout. Through interactive discussions, case studies, and scenario-based exercises, participants will gain practical insights to confidently develop and evaluate cost-effective projects, execute task orders that minimize risk to the government and comply with federal laws, and ensure long-term project savings and success.
Tuesday, July 22
Maximizing Value with REopt®: Approaches to Optimizing Resilience and Costs
Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
REopt® is a publicly available web tool that helps federal agencies identify the most cost-effective on-site energy technology mix, sizing, and operations to achieve federal cost savings and resilience goals. This workshop will start with an overview of Report’s capabilities and then focus on hands-on exercises for attendees—covering the basics for new users and introducing new and advanced capabilities for experienced users. Participants should expect to leave the workshop armed with knowledge, resources, and confidence to use the tool effectively on their own in service of site and agency objectives.
Managing Energy Performance Contracts with Confidence: Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer Representatives Training
Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 1 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Day 2 picks up where Day 1 let off. This workshop is designed to equip COs and CORs, as well as other key stakeholders (e.g., energy managers, project facilitators, and energy service companies [ESCOs]) with the expertise needed to successfully manage ESPCs and UESCs from project initiation to contract closeout. The multiple-day sessions will cover pre-award activities, award, and post-award through project closeout. Through interactive discussions, case studies, and scenario-based exercises, participants will gain practical insights to confidently develop and evaluate cost-effective projects, execute task orders that minimize risk to the government and comply with federal laws, and ensure long-term project savings and success.
Wednesday, July 23
Building Re-Tuning: Learn How To Use FEMP's Building Re-Tuning Simulator
Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
This workshop will provide an overview of re-tuning, which is a systematic process to identify operational problems by leveraging data collected from building automation systems. Learn how FEMP's Building Re-Tuning Simulator tool can be leveraged to help meet agency goals and optimize operations, improve comfort, and reduce energy use and cost. The low- and no-cost re-tuning measures that will be introduced in this workshop can provide savings ranging from 5% to 25% with a simple payback of 0.3 to 3.5 years.
Mitigation Planning for Mission Resilience Readiness Exercises
Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET
This workshop will increase awareness into the interdependencies between power, communications, and mission systems. Attendees will be provided with the planning, mitigation, and execution skills and tools to prioritize actionable documentation and safely improve maintenance and testing procedures for backup power systems.
Learning objectives: Identify common infrastructure challenges and interdependencies, workshop mitigation strategies for known issues, and develop a plan to proceed with planning mission-specific black-start exercises.
Identifying and Customizing Resilience Solutions
Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Understanding the core concepts of resilience is a great first step, but how can you identify, customize, and implement solutions to improve resilience at your federal site? This intermediate-level training will walk attendees through an interactive virtual exercise to address pre-identified risk drivers at a notional federal site with potential resilience solutions. Attendees will learn how to customize best practices into actionable resilience solutions to meet the specific needs of the example site and start improving their overall resilience posture.
Thursday, July 24
Small Projects and the Future of ENABLE
Thursday, July 24, 2025, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
This session will focus on performance contracts for small projects. Performance contracting allows federal sites to partner with private companies to install ECMs. However, smaller sites and smaller projects often have unique needs. This workshop will focus on the performance contracting mechanisms in place to help smaller federal sites and projects install ECMs and meet their energy and water goals. This session will also discuss the future of the ESPC ENABLE program, which was designed to permit a standardized and streamlined procurement process for small federal projects to install ECMs in 6–12 months. The ENABLE contract is no longer supported. This workshop will provide an overview of the future of ENABLE and the contracting options for small projects.
Leveraging Energy Savings Performance Contract Energy Sales Agreements: Considerations, Regulations, and Applications
Thursday, July 24, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET
On-site generation for federal agencies procured through private sector partnerships will be a crucial means for the government’s fleet of buildings to meet administration priorities such as cost savings and energy security. ESPC energy sales agreements (ESPC ESAs), where ESCOs provide financing, project development services, operational efficiency, and risk management, are a tool available to agencies in meeting these administration goals. The ESA process associated regulatory compliance can prove challenging for agencies and ESCOs, and this has impacted broader adoption of ESAs. This will be a pre-conference workshop for 2025’s Energy Exchange that will focus on identifying specific pain points from a legal and cost perspective, and ways that agencies have successfully navigated them in past ESAs. Topics may include federal tax incentive regulation updates, fair market value determination, contract structure such as novation and tri-party agreements and how to document various types of ESA ECMs in eProject Builder. ESPC ESA project case studies will be referenced, and attendees are encouraged to bring forward their own examples. The desired outcomes of this workshop are to foster peer learning, to identify methods to improve ESA processes, and to identify tools/templates that could help. The ultimate goal is to chart clear pathways for federal agencies to successfully leverage these agreements to meet the administration’s and U.S. Department of Energy’s goals.
Leveraging Utility Programs To Optimize Costs
Thursday, July 24, 2025, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Federal facilities face increasing pressure to reduce utility costs, improve energy efficiency, and comply with legislative mandates while navigating complex procurement processes and budget constraints. This workshop will equip agencies with the knowledge and strategies needed to optimize utility costs and take full advantage of utility programs, financial incentives, and procurement pathways aligned with federal goals and requirements. Participants will explore cost-saving opportunities such as demand response, time-variable pricing, energy efficiency incentives, other tariff offerings, and UESCs. In addition, FEMP experts and utility representatives will present case studies and discuss underutilized services provided by utilities under General Services Administration (GSA) areawide contracts that can help facilities upgrade and harden infrastructure to enhance resilience.
Friday, July 25
Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Enhancing Cyber Resilience for Federal Energy Systems
Friday, July 25, 2025, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
This educational and interactive workshop will be centered on resilient and secure infrastructure and facilities, with a focus on inverter-based resources at federal sites, building automation systems, and federal supply chains. This workshop will illustrate an all-hazards scenario and discuss how federal agencies can be positioned to resist worst case scenarios.
Cybersecurity and You: Understand WHY and HOW You Can Help
Friday, July 25, 2025, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET
Ensuring cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility, but not all of us speak the same language! This Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) workshop is aimed at federal energy managers, engineers, and other operational technology staff to help them better understand key cybersecurity concepts to better respond to agency cybersecurity requirements, procure new technology that may impact cybersecurity posture, and work with information technology staff to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities while keeping operational technology up and running.