Campus Energy 2018 Proceedings

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Conference Overview

Energy levels ran high throughout the week of March 5-9 as IDEA convened its 31st Annual Campus Energy Conference, “Sharing Solutions, Sustaining Our Future” at the Hilton Baltimore in Baltimore, MD, attracting a record number of 981 participants from across North America and beyond. This record attendance brought together representatives from college and university campuses together with manufacturers, service providers, consultants and public officials, including over 340 first time attendees at an IDEA conference. Throughout the week of workshops and technical presentations, delegates were drawn to the exhibit hall where 97 exhibitors displayed their latest products and services that are helping campus utilities meet ambitious sustainability and resiliency goals.

The Technical Program featured presentations covering subjects including:

Business Models and Financing District Cooling
Combined Heat and Power Cybersecurity
Feasibility Hot Water
Master Planning and System Design Metering and Controls
Microgrids Operations
Optimization Promoting District Energy
Resiliency Sustainability and Renewables
Talent Management Thermal Distribution
Thermal Energy Storage Workshop: Thermal Distribution
Workshop: Microgrids

Business Models and Financing

District Cooling

Combined Heat and Power

Cybersecurity

Feasibility

Hot Water

Master Planning and System Design

Metering and Controls

Microgrids

Operations

Optimization

Promoting District Energy

Resiliency

Sustainability and Renewables

Talent Management

Thermal Distribution