2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

2002 ACEEE Informal Sessions Descriptions

This session will seek to initiate discussion on developing regionally recognized information clearinghouses on high performance schools. In turn, we will discuss how each of these independant regional sites might act as a spoke to a nationally-recognized high performance schools information hub.

Current Efforts

The High Performance Schools Exchange is a Northeast-based effort to create a regionally recognized, single-point clearinghouse of regional and national high performance school resources. Conceptually, this site will serve as the information hub whose spokes are links to and from key sites that seekers of information on school construction/renovation are likely to visit. Such site links would include (but not be limited to) utilities, state departments of education, state departments of energy, association of school business officials, non-profit information providers, administrators of public benefits funds, etc. It is envisioned that, to be successful, such a resource site needs to be (1) easy to find via related web portals; (2) easy to navigate and visually simple; and (3) comprehensive in its breadth and depth of "back-office" information. This session will provide the overview of this initiative, and seek to stimulate discussion on how this effort might be applied at a national level.

For more information, contact:

Dan Strout
U.S. Department of Energy
e-mail: Daniel.Strout@EE.DOE.GOV

or

Jim Rutherford
NEEP
e-mail: jrutherford@neep.org

or

Denise Rouleau
Consortium for Energy Efficiency
e-mail: drouleau@ceeformt.org

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