Herbert Dwyer
EMPEQ | CEO
Speaker
Track B: Energy Management
Session B2: Project Innovation: Funding and Technology go Hand-in-Hand
September 26, 2024 | 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Auditing for Efficiency – Efficiently
America needs to decarbonize over 7,000 buildings every day if we are to reach our 2050 climate goals, and the first step in each of these projects is a building energy audit.
Unfortunately, audits are mired in an outmoded process that not only results in inefficiencies but also produces disorganized data that must be painstakingly curated to become useful – which creates substantial process inefficiency.
Fortunately, several technologies are tackling these problems. Each of these innovations can add efficiency to the auditing process and can play a part in producing usable data from the moment of capture.
In this presentation, we will explore tech-enabled audit process efficiencies and the crucial nature of data cleanliness for accurate, efficient audits. The goal is to define the landscape through which engineers can connect the equipment they know with the information they need so that better, more accurate audits can be done faster.
Speaker Bio
Former chair of the Northeast Clean Heat and Power Initiative (NECHPI) and a three-time CEO, Herbert spent 7 years as the President/CEO of a regional energy services company. In that role, he conducted over 300 energy audits and design-builds in energy efficiency and clean heating and cooling; it was the frustrating experiences with an inefficient energy auditing process that led him to co-found EMPEQ. Herbert and his EMPEQ team have attacked this problem by building the revolutionary Fast Site SurveyTM – an app that reduces the time spent on this initial assessment process by up to 80%.
EMPEQ is just the latest in a string of Dwyer-led ventures, as he has founded or co-founded companies in the real estate, energy efficiency, and finance industries and led sales teams of up to 80 individuals. A Cornell MBA, US Marine / NSA cryptanalyst, and the keynote speaker at the 2022 & 2023 AEE World Technology Breakfast, Herbert also worked as the General Manager for FedEx in Central New York - the department rose to second of 1,200 regions in sales during his tenure.