January 16, 2024, 12:30–2 p.m. ET
FEMP IACET: 0.2 CEU
Level: Intermediate
This webinar will help agencies understand the challenges, considerations, and best practices surrounding federal procurement of microgrid systems. This training will provide attendees with an overview of the common procurement approaches used to acquire microgrids in the federal sector, challenges to financing microgrids, and lessons learned from prior projects.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Identify common challenges associated with microgrid development.
- Identify sites with promising load and utility rate characteristics for microgrids.
- Apply procurement strategies to implement microgrid projects.
- Leverage available Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) and other resources to help agencies implement successful on-site projects.
Instructors
Doug Gagne is a project analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He currently provides early-stage federal project development support for renewable energy and resilience projects, including techno-economic analyses to identify what mix of generation technologies will most cost-effectively meet a site's power needs. He also supports early-stage resilience project development and brings extensive federal procurement expertise.
Chuck Kurnik has broad engineering experience in energy; remote power, communications, and instrumentation; and manufacturing. He manages NREL's support of microgrid implementation at three U.S. Marine Corps bases. He also manages the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Uniform Methods Project and DOE's Guidelines for Home Energy Professionals. In addition, he served as the site operations manager for DOE's Solar Decathlon.
Nick Grue is a researcher and project manager with NREL's Energy Resilience and Security Center. Nick leads resilience assessments for public and private organizations focusing on identifying hazards and threats, characterizing vulnerabilities, and determining mitigation solutions to improve the resilience postures of sites and assets.
Prior to joining NREL, Nick served as a tactical vehicle commander in the U.S. Marine Corps and conducted combat operations in Iraq in 2007 and 2008. Nick holds a B.A. in geography and environmental science and a M.S. in global energy management from the University of Colorado.
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.