Building Resilience: Keeping the Lights on in an All-Electric Future

State and local policies are pushing our built environment toward all-electric buildings in order to save energy and reduce climate impacts, and at the same time we are experiencing challenges such as wildfires, heat events, and brownouts. Attendees heard about building and community scale solutions that can help create a resilient built environment for everyone, including energy efficiency, load shifting, demand response strategies, and more.

Welcome and Introductions

Kellen Dammann, County of Marin BayREN Representative | Watch recorded presentation

Building a Resilient All-Electric Home

Dave Guidice, County of Napa | Watch recorded presentation

Home-Scale Resilience:

Passive House and Energy Efficiency for Resilience

Graham Irwin, Essential Habitat Architecture | Watch recorded presentation

Vehicle to Grid Technology

John Sarter, dcbel | Watch recorded presentation

Heat Pump Water Heaters & Load Shifting

Emily Kehmeier, Energy Solutions | Watch recorded presentation

Q&A - Panel 1 | Watch recorded presentation

Community Scale Resilience:

CCA’s Role in Reliability and Resilience

Sebastian Conn, MCE Clean Energy | Watch recorded presentation

BayREN’s Resilient Libraries Network Initiative

(Presentation) Aleka Seville, Collective Strategies Consulting

(Presentation) Rachel Jacobson, American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP) | Watch recorded presentation

Q&A - Panel 2 and Closing Remarks | Watch recorded presentation

Other Resources:

Electrification & Community Resilience (ECR) design standard and economic analysis

Electrification & Community Resilience (ECR) design standard and economic analysis (ESS V2X version)

Panelists and Audience Q&A log (Excel file)