June Chapter Meeting and Social

Location: U of I Water Center Building (Mtg) & Esther Simplot Park (Social) Boise, ID

Share 10:30 to 11:30 AM – Chapter Meeting/Lecture @ Idaho Water Center 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM – Travel to Esther Simplot Park (3206 W Pleasanton Ave, Boise, ID 83702) 12:00 to 1:00 PM – Social Hour with Gift Card Giveaway sponsored by Trane Chapter Meeting/Lecture Title: Electrification, Heat Pumps, and Thermal Energy Storage – Using Yesterday's Waste Energy for Tomorrow's Heating Speaker: Bruce Lindsay Bio: Bruce B. Lindsay is the Business Development Leader for Trane Technologies’ Thermal Energy Storage systems. He has been involved in thermal energy storage research, engineering, sales, and operation for over 30 years. Bruce received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. He received a Master of Science in Energy Resources at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught graduate engineering courses. He received a Master of Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Bruce began his energy career at Peoples Natural Gas in Pittsburgh in industrial sales, conducting energy audits in Western Pennsylvania. He underwent special industry training and received a Chartered Industrial Gas Consultant designation. He was recruited by the Gas Research Institute to conduct national programs to develop new natural gas-fueled cooling and heating systems. Description: “Electrification” has recently become a widely accepted roadmap towards the goal of a low-carbon future. The concept is easily understood in the transportation sector: cars using fossil fuels as their on-board energy source can never be carbon free. However, an electric car that is charged by a carbon free source, can be carbon free. When applied to buildings, one method is to envision stopping the flow of fossil fuels to them and having all energy come from the carbon-free grid of the future. Some skeptics of the concept believe it is a pipe dream to have a carbon-free electric grid but certainly you cannot have a carbon-free building if you are burning fossil fuels in them. Electrification will play a part in our low carbon future so understanding heat pumps, “free cooling” and thermal energy storage’s relationship to them, will be critical. The presentation will cover the multiple value streams of using thermal storage for heating and cooling in an all-electric building. Tickets $0.00 Lecture Only Ticket $0.00 Lecture and Social Hour Ticket $0.00 Social Hour Only Ticket $0.00 Non-member Lecture Only Ticket $0.00 Non-member Lecture and Social Hour Ticket $0.00 Non-member Social Hour Only Ticket $1,000.00 Social Sponsor $0.00 Virtual Ticket – Lecture Only