2025 Digitizing Decarbonization Summit

March 3, 2025
Portland, Oregon

The Digitizing Decarbonization Summit brings together forward-thinking professionals and innovative service providers to accelerate the decarbonization of our built environment. This one-day event is designed to foster collaboration between code-savvy developers and industry leaders, enabling the creation of smarter, more connected solutions for energy efficiency and electrification.

Participants will explore how to identify and streamline manual processes, integrate siloed software platforms, and unlock new efficiencies within their organizations. Industry professionals will gain insights into how digital tools can address their most pressing challenges, while developers will deepen their understanding of customer needs through interactive sessions and real-world problem-solving.

A highlight of the summit is a hands-on workshop where attendees will collaborate to identify pain points and co-develop strategies that bridge gaps between existing tools and services. Together, we aim to build a unified, interoperable software stack that connects data across platforms—paving the way for rapid scaling of decarbonization efforts.

This highly interactive gathering will feature panel discussions, collaborative workshops, and ample opportunities to form new partnerships. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas, fresh strategies, and valuable connections to drive progress in their organizations—and across the industry.

Join us as we work together to digitize decarbonization and create a future where innovation accelerates sustainability.

Note that the event is immediately prior to the ACEEE Hot Air and Water Forum in Portland, Oregon.

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  • Fragmentation in customer acquisition, energy assessment, and measure selection significantly increases the soft costs of efficiency, resilience, and electrification projects. These projects use data sets that can be aligned to flow into each successive step yet typically remain discrete processes. How can we build a cohesive, data-driven process around these steps of building upgrades? This process flow—where the entire workflow is streamlined and connected—can reduce waste, avoid errors, reduce soft costs, and deliver better-optimized solutions to customers. This panel will explore how companies in this step of the process have been approaching data compatibility and discuss how we can collaborate to build this streamlined approach together and what tools and platforms are available already to make it happen.

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  • Financing, incentive qualification, and installation often face fragmentation and inefficiencies, creating barriers for electrification projects. Financiers struggle with incentive payment requirements and logistical complexities, while installers navigate varying regulations and incentive processing steps. Adding to this, consumers and providers alike face challenges accessing and utilizing available incentives.

    This panel will explore how aligning financing options with streamlined incentive programs and standardized installation processes can reduce these roadblocks. Together, we’ll discuss strategies to simplify workflows, minimize delays, and make electrification upgrades more accessible and scalable.

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  • Effective data collection and sharing are pivotal in energy efficiency and electrification, especially after installation when the resources installed in buildings become distributed grid assets. However, challenges such as inconsistent data standards, privacy concerns, and integration complexities often require complex third-party data integrations to use these tools. These issues can lead to inefficiencies in ongoing customer engagement and limit the effectiveness of grid services.

    Standardized data protocols and robust sharing mechanisms enable seamless can communication between stakeholders. Such an ecosystem would facilitate real-time insights, enhance customer engagement through personalized solutions, and optimize grid operations by effectively integrating distributed energy resources in real-time, to maximum effect.

    This panel will explore strategies to overcome current data-related challenges to ongoing engagement and post-installation data collection and data-enabled services. By leveraging advanced data analytics, enabling ongoing engagement of grid edge devices with their owners and the grid,  and fostering grid edge stakeholder cooperation, we aim to drive the transition towards a more responsive and resilient energy grid.

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