FEMP Training Catalog

The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) is helping agencies understand how to maximize decarbonization while harnessing climate adaptation techniques and maintaining site resilience, allowing agencies to meet current and future decarbonization goals. This training will provide attendees with an understanding of which tools and resources are available to help plan for climate resilience and adaptation.

A data center houses computer servers, storage, and networking equipment as well as critical support infrastructure such as cooling and electrical systems. These facilities are critical to the mission of many types of organizations, and data center operators are challenged to deliver reliable services, operate efficiently, and ensure resiliency and flexibility. The selection of computer servers can have a profound impact on overall energy efficiency and decarbonization in data centers. This webinar focuses on air-cooled computer server selection guidelines and covers the purchase of computer servers that meet strict performance criteria for data centers to operate more efficiently and meet specific federal requirements.

This training will discuss how agencies can prepare for the technical proposal review, how the technical proposal meets the task order request for proposal requirements, and ensuring the measurement and verification plan does not conflict with the risk, responsibility, and performance matrix. It will explore the evaluation and assessment of the contractor's energy savings performance contract (ESPC) project proposal, specifically the technical proposal.

The Buy American Act (BAA) was established to help the government leverage its buying power to support United States industries, including the renewable energy industry. With federal solar photovoltaic (PV) projects on the rise, it is imperative for federal purchasers to understand how BAA applies in renewable energy projects to avoid project delays. This webinar reviews the latest updates to the BAA, discusses how to ensure federal solar PV systems comply with the BAA, and provides tips on conducting market research to verify claims.

This training provides federal agency staff with an overview of available resources they can use to make data-driven decisions about whether or not distributed wind could be a feasible option for their locations of interest.

Cybersecurity assessments are mandatory for many organizations and federal agencies, but they can be extremely time-consuming. This training guides attendees through the entire process of taking an assessment on the DER-CF platform, shows why taking assessments is important, and how to get and use the results.