December 5, 2024, 2–3 p.m. ET
FEMP IACET: 0.1
Level: Introductory
Does your federal facility have a plan to combat an unplanned power outage? This training will showcase lessons learned from energy resilience and readiness exercises and outlines the value that these exercises can provide to evaluate and improve energy resilience at federal facilities.
Learning Objectives
- Identify common infrastructure challenges and interdependencies.
- Recognize the importance of open dialog between mission and infrastructure personnel.
- Identify the role of mitigations planning in power outages.
Instructor
Jean Sack is a technical staff member in the Energy Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Jean is the lead for installation energy resilience projects, and has worked on a variety of alternative energy, energy resiliency, and microgrid solutions for military and disaster response applications.
She has worked closely with over 30 installations across the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard to oversee, lead, plan, and observe Black Start Exercises, Energy Resilience Readiness Exercises, and Energy Resilience Tabletop Exercises.
This work includes a significant planning and mitigation process culminating in real-world exercises, to provide independent justification for resilience projects, process improvements, and policy change by highlighting mission and infrastructure interdependencies.
Jean has also led a training program for external contractors to plan and conduct these exercises across the Department of Defense.
Jean graduated from MIT with dual bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering and music, as well as a master's degree in mechanical engineering.
She has written and co-authored reports, articles, and papers on energy resilience, energy for disaster relief, aluminum-water power systems, and superhydrophobic surfaces, and served as an instructor for a senior design capstone at MIT from 2019-2021.
About FEMP Training
The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) provides live and on-demand training to foster and maintain a high-performance workforce that constructs, operates, and maintains energy-efficient and cost-effective federal facilities. Choose from over 120 free courses spanning topics like project financing, facility and fleet optimization, fleet management, resilience, sustainable product procurement, and more.
FEMP is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and awards IACET continuing education units (CEUs) upon the successful completion of select courses. FEMP training is provided through the National Institute of Building Sciences' Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG) learning management system.