Suggested Curricula
FEMP offers training courses in several subject categories, including project financing, electric utility restructuring, EPAct goals, and project software. Navigation through FEMP courses depends on each energy manager's energy and water improvement objectives. To help technical and contracting specialists select appropriate curricula, FEMP offers the following guidelines.
Technical Specialists
Step 1: Overview Course
- FEMP's Energy Management Telecourse provides an overview of life-cycle costing, buying energy-efficient products, operations and maintenance, water resource management, utility energy service contracting, and energy savings performance contracting.
Step 2: Energy-Efficient Products Information
- Buying Energy-Efficient Products Course: provides guidance for selecting energy-efficient products in support of legislation, executive orders, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and ENERGY STAR®. This course is also available via satellite broadcast and videotape.
Step 3: Updates on Evolving Energy Markets
- Evolving Energy Markets Course: learn how to choose the best energy service and project assistance options in the evolving retail utility industry, as well as opportunities for better managing energy use, and procuring electric and gas utility services and renewable power.
Step 4: Cost-Savings Optimization Training
- Life-Cycle Costing Course: all Federal energy and water improvements must be analyzed for life-cycle cost-effectiveness. Get the greatest energy and water savings by using the newest Building Life-Cycle Costing software.
Step 5: O&M Opportunities Training
- Operations and Maintenance Management Course: find out how to gain better control of your day-to-day facility management and utility costs and implement specific high payback procedures and energy conservation measures. You will need minimal additional resources to reap large near-term savings from this course.
- Commissioning for Federal Facilities Online Training: interactive training for the Commissioning for Federal Facilities guidebook covering ongoing commissioning processes to resolve operating problems, improve comfort, optimize energy use, and identify retrofits for commercial and institutional buildings and central plant facilities.
Step 6: Integrated Design Training
- Design Strategies for Low-Energy, Sustainable, Secure Buildings Course: up-front planning on how to effectively integrate passive solar design, energy conservation and renewable energy options into building design.
Step 7: Energy Simulation Tool Training
- FEDS Workshop: incorporates software for analyzing conservation options in individual or multiple buildings at a single site.
Step 8: Specific Technology Training
- FEMP Lights Course: targets a major conservation opportunity for Federal facility management.
- Implementing Renewable Energy Projects Workshop has optional modules for your objectives: passive and active solar; remote power; and backup through photovoltaic and wind systems.
- High Performance, Low Energy Laboratory Design and Laboratories for the 21st Century provide a forum for lab building design and operation that incorporates renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency.
- Water Resource Management Course: how to measure and manage your sites' water usage to obtain water, energy, cost, and quality-of-life benefits.
- Distributed Energy Resources Course: will help you understand distributed energy resources (DER) which involves placing energy generating systems near, or at, the point of use, improving electric reliability and power quality for customer. DER complements the existing transmission and distribution system and enables the use of waste heat for productive purposes in combined heat and power applications.
Step 9: Project Financing/Contracting Training
- The Energy Savings Performance Contracting telecourse and Super ESPC Delivery Order workshop focus on obtaining private sector funding to accomplish energy improvements. FEMP recommends that procurement and technical specialists attend the Super ESPC Workshop as a project team. Legal, management and other specialists on your team are also welcome.
- The Utility Energy Services Contracting (UESC) Projects Workshop explores all the information you need to know about implementing energy conservation projects with utilities. FEMP recommends that procurement and technical specialists attend the UESC Workshop as a project team. Legal, management and other specialists on your team are also welcome.
Contracting Specialists
Step 1: Energy-Efficient Products Information
- Buying Energy-Efficient Products Course: provides guidance for selecting energy efficient products in support of legislation, executive orders, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and ENERGY STAR®. This course is also available via satellite broadcast and videotape.
Step 2: Updates on Evolving Energy Markets
- Evolving Energy Markets Course: learn how to choose the best energy service and project assistance options in the evolving retail utility industry, as well as opportunities for better managing energy use, and procuring electric and gas utility services and renewable power.
Step 3: Project Financing Training
- The Energy Savings Performance Contracting telecourse and Super ESPC Delivery Order workshop focus on obtaining private sector funding to accomplish energy improvements. FEMP recommends that procurement and technical specialists attend the Super ESPC Workshop as a project team. Legal, management and other specialists on your team are also welcome.
- The Utility Energy Services Contracting (UESC) Projects Workshop explores all the information you need to know about implementing energy conservation projects with utilities. FEMP recommends that procurement and technical specialists attend the UESC Workshop as a project team. Legal, management and other specialists on your team are also welcome.