Right-Sizing Residential Plumbing with the Water Demand Calculator

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The AIA Los Angeles chapter offers this session, which will cover the benefits of using the California Plumbing Code’s Water Demand Calculator (WDC) to size plumbing in homes and apartment buildings.

I-REN C&S Training: 2025 Energy Code Updates with the California Energy Commission

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Join I-REN and the California Energy Commission (CEC) for this hour-long overview of the changes in the upcoming 2025 Energy Code, which will be effective January 1, 2026.

3C-REN Webinar: Modeling All-Electric Homes in the 2022 Energy Code

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All-Electric Homes are having their moment, with state policies, incentives, and energy code providing builders, homeowners, and energy consultants a strong nudge toward all-electric designs. This session will go over how to model all-electric homes (single family and multifamily) for maximum compliance benefit, including the Variable Capacity Heat Pump (VCHP) compliance credit and Heat Pump Water Heaters. It will also cover PV sizing and how that may differ for all-electric homes and mixed-fuel homes. Retrofits and new construction will also be covered with examples using tri-county climate zones.

EV Charging Tech Toolbox: Bring-Your-Own-Cord (BYOC) EV Charging

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The EV Infrastructure Tech Toolbox is an all-virtual webinar series launched in the Spring of 2024. This event will bring together all the people working in different areas of the EV charging ecosystem, to share learnings and discussion about Bring-Your-Own-Cord charging solutions, which are present in other countries but not yet present in the US in large numbers. The panel discussion will be 90 minutes, with an additional "bonus" 30-minute technical deep dive on the topic from 10:30-11am. No separate registration is required for the technical deep dive.

2025 Title 24 Part 6 Essentials - Non-Residential Standards, What's New

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This online live event summarizes the new and revised requirements in the 2025 California Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Title 24, Part 6 or Energy Code) for nonresidential buildings, and directs participants to informational resources and training that provide more in-depth information on the Energy Code.

2025 Title 24 Part 6 Essentials - Residential Standards, What's New

• webinar
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This online event summarizes the new and revised requirements in the 2025 California Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Title 24, Part 6 or the Energy Code) for single-family and multifamily buildings, and directs participants to informational resources and training that provide more in-depth information on the Energy Code.

CivicWell Event: Climate Disaster Resilience and Recovery

• Webinar
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In this webinar, HORNE Director of Federal and State Programs Geoffrey Ross will discuss the technical assistance his agency provides to support local communities in accessing federal funding for climate disaster preparedness and recovery. Kirin Kumar, Director for Climate and Disaster Resilience for Northern California Grantmakers, will highlight the ways philanthropy is stepping in to fill in gaps in state and federal funding for climate planning, resilience, and adaptation. City of Lodi Mayor and The Craig Group Partners LLC principal Lisa Craig and SPUR Hazard Resilience Senior Policy Manager Sarah Atkinson will share case studies from local jurisdictions, and resources available to support climate disaster recovery and resilience at the local level.

California Energy Commission: 2024 Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) Symposium

• In-person and virtual
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10th Annual EPIC Symposium will convene clean energy professionals, researchers, grantees, policymakers, industry leaders, technology developers, and entrepreneurs to spotlight the latest innovations and advancements driven by the EPIC program.

Sustain SoCal: 15th Annual Energy Event

• The Cove at UCI Beall Applied Innovation 5270 California Avenue, Irvine, CA
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This conference will delve into the status of decarbonization solutions in the industrial, commercial and governmental sectors. There will also be a session on incentives, policy and legislation and the conference will highlight local energy innovators.

Innovative Investment Strategies for Climate Resilience

• Webinar
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In this webinar, California Strategic Growth Council Deputy Director of Community Investments and Planning Amar Cid, Former Senior Advisor of Climate and Economy to the California Governor’s Office Mary Collins, Valley Vision CEO Evan Schmidt, and Director of Environmental Initiatives for The San Diego Foundation Christiana DeBenedict will offer insights into how cohesive funding strategies from state, federal, and philanthropic sources can amplify the work of local communities and CBOs—increasing coordination, building coalitions and capacity, and investing in relationships as soft infrastructure for climate resilience.

Central Coast Sustainability Summit

• Corwin Pavilion, University of California, Santa Barbara
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At this year’s summit, the keynote speakers will inspire agencies and thought leaders to create a shared vision and accountability for sustainability efforts in California’s central coast. Breakout sessions will address topics related to decarbonization, community resiliency, sustainable transportation, waste management and food recovery, regenerative agriculture, and climate education. The event will bring together key players from local institutions and government agencies to build collaborations for a sustainable central coast.

I-REN & Energy Code Ace Training: 2022 Code Breaker: Nonresidential HVAC Packaged or Split DX Alterations

• Webinar
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This webinar will address the Mandatory and Prescriptive requirements for alterations and replacements of both Packaged and Split DX systems for nonresidential buildings, noting key similarities and differences between the code for systems serving existing buildings compared to systems for new construction.

BayREN C&S Training: Residential Additions

• Webinar
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This course will focus on Energy Code requirements and processes for residential additions.

2024 Updates to the 2022 Single Family Retrofits Cost-Effectiveness Study

• Webinar
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The Statewide Local Energy Codes team presents the results of the 2024 updates to the Single Family Retrofit Cost-Effectiveness Study. Attendees will learn about the most recent cost-effectiveness analyses, both from the published report and from the updated data in the free online Cost-Effectiveness Explorer tool.

Simplified Flexible Path Policymaking with the Cost-Effectiveness Explorer

• Webinar
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The Cost-Effectiveness Explorer team will present new capabilities in the free online tool that local jurisdiction staff can use to craft effective flexible path measures more easily.

Results from the 2022 Multifamily New Construction Cost-Effectiveness Study 

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This webinar will present the results from the most recent cost-effectiveness analysis for multifamily new construction, which supports the development of reach codes under the new 2022 Building Energy Efficiency Standards (effective 1/1/2023). The presenters will provide results for all packages studied across all 16 California Climate Zones (CZs).

Reaching Beyond New Construction: A Panel Discussion

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This is a panel discussion with local jurisdiction staff on existing building policy adoption. A collaboration between Building Decarbonization Coalition, BayREN, 3C-REN, California Climate & Energy Collaborative and the Statewide Reach Codes Program, this webinar is reserved for local jurisdiction staff.

2025 Energy Code Cycle Stakeholder Meeting: Single Family and Multifamily

• Webinar
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In this webinar, the Statewide CASE Team will introduce the audience to the Single Family and Multifamily measures that are being considered for the 2025 T24 energy code and seek to garner participation from new and existing stakeholders.

Reach Codes Newcomers Webinar Series:
Session 5

• Webinar
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Session 5, Implementation:  Monitoring reach code implementation, checklists and training, examples from specific jurisdictions, and more.

Designing Local Policies with the Cost-Effectiveness Explorer

• Webinar
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Launched in the fall of 2020 and used by 100+ local jurisdictions statewide, the Cost-Effectiveness Explorer now lets users create and visualize impacts from overarching policies at the local level. This webinar will walk through the free online tool to enable attendees a "hands-on" look at how to explore the new policy-building tools, and provide plenty of time for Q&A.

Draft Results: Multifamily New Construction Cost-Effectiveness Study

• Webinar
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Draft Results: Nonresidential New Construction Cost-Effectiveness Study

• Webinar
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Results & Findings: Single Family New Construction Cost-Effectiveness Study

• Webinar
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Reach Codes Newcomers Webinar Series:
Session 4

• Webinar
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Session 4, Reach code ordinance options:  Renewing existing reach codes, developing and adopting new reach codes for new and existing buildings, model ordinances, and more.

Reach Codes Newcomers Webinar Series:
Session 3

• Webinar
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Session 3, Cost-effectiveness analyses:  Introduction to terms, when an analysis is required, what makes a measure cost effective, types of inputs and considerations, how to obtain and use a cost-effectiveness analysis, energy code terms and metrics, and more.

Reach Codes Newcomers Webinar Series:
Session 2

• Webinar
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Session 2, Reach code process & timing:  The general steps of developing and drafting a reach code, including policy development, timing considerations, preparing for Council, and support resources to help you throughout the process.

Reach Codes Newcomers Webinar Series:
Session 1

• Webinar
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Session 1, Introduction:  The what and why of reach codes, including an overview of the process and timing, legal considerations, and more.

Designing Flexible Path Reach Codes with the Cost-Effectiveness Explorer

• Webinar
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Tackling Residential Retrofits: Tools and Lessons Learned

• Webinar
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Reach Codes Results: Residential Retrofits Cost-effectiveness Webinar

• Webinar - Online
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Please join us for a presentation on the results of our newly-completed analysis of residential retrofit measures and measure packages. A preliminary cost-effectiveness study on existing residential building upgrades was published by the statewide Codes & Standards team in February 2020. At that time, the research team identified a range of additional options that merited further study. These include: Revisiting  base case assumptions Exploring additional HVAC upgrade options Evaluating additional building envelope improvements Assessing lighting: luminaire replacements in addition to lamp replacements Evaluating electrification and electrification-ready measures at equipment change-out Considering the effectiveness of PV system installation when building an addition Requiring additional efficiency upgrades when installing PV Study authors will present their findings and answer participant questions on all the measures and measure packages analyzed.

2019 New Construction Studies - Technical Webinar