Jillian Winterkorn
Username
Jillian Corley
Proposer First Name
Jillian
Proposer Email
jillian.winterkorn@eversource.com
Proposer Last Name
Winterkorn
Proposer Job Title
Energy Efficiency Consultant
Proposed Session Description
To combat climate change, companies across the globe are setting ambitious decarbonization goals. Facility managers, trained to make sure these buildings are operating properly, are now additionally tasked with finding ways to make these buildings operate more energy efficiently and depend less on fossil fuels to help their companies reach their greenhouse gas reduction goals. Eversource, an electric and natural gas utility in the Northeast, has devised several support mechanisms to help train facility managers so they are ready for these new tasks. Through its facility manager training program, Eversource offers studies that focus on equipment benchmarking and monitoring, energy treasure hunts, and customized training.
Why is this session important?
This training program equitably advances efficiency across the industrial sector and helps facility managers identify solutions to increase building operation efficiency, track reduced energy consumption, and achieve greenhouse gas reductions. This presentation will discuss the best practices for training facility managers to meet the challenges associated with decarbonization and discuss lessons learned from devising a training-based program. It will also discuss how to engage and train facility managers so they can act as the change agent by proposing solutions that can help their company exceed its decarbonization goal. Training the facility managers who run these facilities to look for innovative efficiency and zero-carbon solutions is essential, especially for companies that want to be successful in meeting their decarbonization goals.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
We evaluated the percent of projects that took place in environmental justice communities in CT. Equity was part of our criteria for determining which programs were successful or not and where improvements can be made.
Learning Objectives
Describe how the role of a facility manager has evolved to meet new challenges associated with climate change
Propose several ways to better engage facility managers in developing GHG reduction plans
Understand who and when to engage the facility management team
List best practices for facility managers to engage and lessons learned
Has this session been presented before?
No
NYC 2022 Areas of Focus
Session Format
Interview or structured conversation among panelists
Workshop or skill-building session
Lightning Round (several brief idea pitches followed by discussion)
Presentation followed by in-depth discussion or breakout groups
Strongest Content Connection - NYC 2022
Reviewer 1
Boren, Michaela
Reviewer 2
Boren, Michaela
Proposal #
117
Committee Decision
Being Considered