Building Energy Efficiency: Technology, Policy & Finance

Decarbonizing commercial, industrial, and residential buildings is critical to developing affordable, reliable, and low-carbon energy systems. However, understanding the basics of energy efficiency can be challenging, given its deeply intertwined technology, policy, and finance dimensions. Further, while energy efficiency is a rapidly expanding, multi-billion-dollar global industry, market, behavioral, and institutional barriers often hinder its uptake.
In this course, Dian Grueneich – one of the world’s leading energy efficiency experts – and Stephen Comello, examine the fundamentals and complexities of building energy efficiency (BEE), including key technologies, policies, and finance tools. You’ll learn to assess the potential energy, cost and non-energy benefits of a BEE intervention. You’ll discover the next frontiers of BEE including “data-driven” intelligent efficiency, building decarbonization, and BEE’s role in international climate efforts.
And many more distinguished speakers.
This course is approximately 5.5 hours of video content with 1.5 hours of coursework.
By completing this course, you’ll earn 0.5 Continuing Education Unit (CEU). CEUs cannot be applied toward any Stanford degree. CEU transferability is subject to the receiving institution’s policies.
Please contact the Program Manager at
scpd-energy@stanford.edu