Event Description

2025 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry theme: Industrial competitiveness and the evolving energy landscape. 

The industrial sector accounts for one-third of the United States' primary energy use, so ongoing shifts in energy systems present enormous opportunities and risks for this sector. Industrial competitiveness is going to depend on continued investments in innovation, efficiency, and advances in energy solutions. 

• Research and development have always been a national strength. Ongoing shifts also require innovation in business models across the energy spectrum.
• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab estimates that only 50% of industrial energy is used productively – leading to an enormous waste of resources. Cost reduction through efficiency is a proven pathway to increasing profitability.
• Our trading partners are setting new standards for energy and resource efficiency. They continue to advance technologies that improve sustainable performance.  

How do you take advantage of the opportunity and minimize the risk? How does your network support you? The 2025 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry brings together professionals from around the globe to Charlotte, North Carolina – ground zero for recent industrial investment, accompanied by a statewide commitment to modernizing the electricity sector by the year 2050. We will look at policies, funding, operations, and technology to sustain industrial competitiveness for individual firms and the sector at large. We’ll ask how public-private partnerships can act now to develop the workforce we need for success. We’ll compare national and state policy to look for immediate advantage and long-term leverage. 

You’ll leave the Summer Study with an expanded network and an action plan to meet your goals.  

The following tracks will be the highlight of the conference program:

• Grids, Pipelines, and Funding
• Technology and Operations
• Bringing New Energy to Leadership
• Collaborating through Complexity: Navigating Industrial Value Chains

Participants include: Corporate leaders, energy managers and government relations professionals; equipment manufacturers and engineering services providers; labor representatives; energy efficiency program administrators, evaluators, and implementors; public utility commission and consumer counselor staff members; professionals in the utility sector with responsibilities for efficiency programs, resource planning, regulatory compliance and government relations; energy efficiency solution providers; federal and state energy and economic development officials; energy and sustainability management firms; and energy efficiency, clean energy and equity advocacy organizations.