Jon Braman
Username
Jon Braman
Proposer First Name
Jonathan
Proposer Email
jbraman@brightpower.com
Proposer Last Name
Braman
Proposer Company/Organization
Bright Power
Proposer Phone
(646) 780-5533
Boston 2022 Areas of Focus
Proposer Job Title
Executive Vice President Strategic Initiatives
Proposer Additional Info
As EVP of Strategic Initiatives Jon focuses on developing new services, research and industry partnerships that advance Bright Power's mission to eliminate the negative environmental impacts of buildings. In 2010, Jon was part of the team that launched EnergyScoreCards, Bright Power's platform for tracking energy and water in multifamily properties which now houses data on over 100,000 buildings nationally. Past Bright Power research projects have included measuring the savings from national and regional energy programs and conducting a large-scale experiment on the effectiveness of energy and water benchmarking. Over the last few years Bright Power has been developing a suite of services for multifamily lenders, and currently supports Fannie Mae's Green Measurement and Verification Service.
Proposed Session Description
Multifamily energy programs have a come a long way. Whereas multifamily once fell into a gap between commercial and residential classifications, a number of effective programs from utilities, states and lenders have supported retrofits at thousands of multifamily properties in the last decade. The next generation of multifamily programs, however, must catalyze the decarbonization of almost all existing buildings over the next 2-3 decades, with interventions that go both deeper and broader than past programs.
This panel will bring together leading innovators pushing the boundaries of what is achievable with multifamily energy programs in terms of both depth and breadth of impact. Representatives from NYSERDA and the Association of Energy Affordability (CA) will share results for programs that target full or partial electrification, demonstrating that it’s feasible now to reach the level of decarbonization needed for all buildings by 2050. Representatives from Fannie Mae and NYS Department of Housing and Community Renewal will share unique approaches that combine sustainability goals with housing finance for scalable impact. The conversation will be moderated by Bright Power, which has analyzed savings from thousands of multifamily properties and whose EnergyScoreCards database houses energy and water information on over 100,000 multifamily buildings nationally.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
Will include targeted questions and discussion about how to ensure that efficiency, electrification, decarbonization efforts support the expansion of affordable housing, and improve comfort and health for communities of color while protecting low income residents from energy cost increases. We are open to suggestions of other panel participants that would bring critical perspectives on DEI to the discussion.
Learning Objectives
Attendees will learn proven technical and incentive strategies for achieving deep energy savings/ electrification/ decarbonization in multifamily energy programs. Technical strategies may include improvements to building envelope, conversion from gas to electric heat pumps for space heating and domestic hot water, and onsite renewable energy generation.
Attendees will learn proven program design strategies for delivering retrofits at a large scale – over 1000 properties per year. Program design strategies may include techniques to leverage existing regional technical service providers, how to reduce program friction, and how to maintain rigorous standards at scale.
Attendees will understand best practices for ensuring results through transparency and measurement and verification, including collection of whole building energy and water data.
Attendees will hear about multiple innovative strategies for leveraging capital sources to drive multifamily energy efficiency and decarbonization, including green bond investors, housing subsidies and energy program funds.
Has this session been presented before?
No
Session Format
Interview or structured conversation among panelists
Session Format Details
1) To start, the moderator will introduce the panel and suggest some themes for the audience to listen for in the discussion. - 5 minutes
2) Each panelist will give a 5 minute introduction to key aspects of their program(s) - 20 minutes
3) Moderator will facilitate a discussion between panelists with a series of questions meant to spark illuminating exchanges. Questions will be grouped by theme: strategies for going broad, strategies for going deep, funding strategies, going broad AND deep. - 30-40 minutes
4) Audience questions 20-30 minutes
5) Closing thought from each presenter and moderator - 5 min
Recommended Length
90-minute session
Strongest Content Connection - Boston 2022
Reviewer 1
Boettcher, Dave
Reviewer 2
Gunn, Geoff
Curator
Gunn, Geoff
Proposal #
187
Session #
203
Committee Decision
Accepted
Presenters
Full Description
With innovative programs like NYSERDA’s RetrofitNY and Buildings of Excellence, the Low Income Weatherization Program (LIWP) in California and Fannie Mae’s Green Mortgage Loans, multifamily program designers and implementers are already hard at work testing new paradigms in terms of the measures, financing and program delivery approaches needed to drive multifamily efficiency and decarbonization. At the same time, more innovation, and a rapid expansion of successful approaches is essential if we in the building efficiency sector is to truly do our part to address the climate crisis.
This session is intended to accelerate industry learning and innovation by bringing together ideas, lessons learned and practical strategies from those working on scaling up solutions for multifamily decarbonization. Attendees will gain a new understanding of promising strategies and the key technical, industry and program design challenges remaining to overcome. Through this NESEA session, we aim to expand the programs' impact by sharing ideas that others may adapt for their own contexts.