Title: Replacing Electrons with Neurons: Industrial Workforce Education & Training Energy Efficiency Programs
Abstract: payback and low total resource cost (TRC)) 1 . Achieving these savings has traditionally relied on information transfer through energy audits, staff classes, to market partners (such as equipment representatives) and design guides. More recently, industrial process energy requirements included in California and national energy codes have added education and for compliance as a new method of communicating repeatable energy efficiency measures. This paper builds upon adult learning theory as a basis for implementing work force education and programs. This approach starts with a needs assessment of the major market participants (equipment manufacturers, distribution channels, specifiers and end-users) to develop an overall performance improvement plan that often includes a plan. These plans frequently include training targeted at the specific activities performed by each type of market participant with actionable information that promotes the desired changes specific to their role in the market. This paper describes a performance assessment based methodology for developing a compliance enhancement program for industrial efficiency measures recently adopted into the California Title 24 building energy efficiency code, and makes recommendations for applying role-based to future education and efforts.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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