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Last Fall, Slipstream teamed up with KEEP - Wisconsin's K-12 Energy Education Program and Xcel Energy to give high-school students a truly hands-on experience with new and emerging sustainable technologies at the first annual Clean Energy Career Fair. The students attending got to: ➡️Build their own model wind turbines and test them out ➡️Use cutting-edge energy modeling software ➡️Take a look at the latest electric vehicles ➡️See how electrical power is distributed ➡️And more! Find out more about how this unique event came about—including how Wisconsin Energy Workforce Consortium's Mobile Learning Lab got involved—and why interactive experiences like this are essential for inspiring the next generation in our latest blog post: https://bit.ly/3Waxgqw #CleanEnergyCareers #Decarbonization

Virgin Hotels Las Vegas "goes green" – even in the desert – with C-PACE. 🏜️ 💵 The first C-PACE-financed project in Clark County, Nevada, recently closed! It is one of the largest C-PACE loans in the country, enabling energy-efficient improvements such as HVAC upgrades, desert landscaping, and window replacements. These improvements will provide long-term savings for the property while helping the environment. 💧 👏 Congratulations, Nuveen Green Capital, for financing this $190M project. Learn more about this project: https://bit.ly/46b0haf Learn more about the Clark County C-PACE program: https://bit.ly/46dcCuy #CPACE #ClarkCounty #EnergyEfficient #WaterEfficient

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study is almost here! 📆 We're getting excited for this year's event, as well as reminiscing on years past. 🛶 Can you name all the Slipstreamers (past and present) in this photo? 📸 If you're attending, we'd love to connect with you! Check out the Slipstreamers who will be presenting at the Summer study (also listed below): ➡️ Jeannette LeZaks: Municipality and Utility Partnership on Advanced Building Policy Market Transformation ➡️ Xiaohui "Joe" Zhou: Smart Building Technology Training ➡️ Drew Morrison David Vigliotta: Sketchbox as a Teaching Tool ➡️ Connor Jansen: BETA Commercial Pilot ➡️ Jonathan Koliner: 120V HPWHs ➡️ Tianyao Zhang, PE, BEMP, LEED AP: Lighting Controls Tech Transfer Zack Mast, Justin Margolies, and Dan Streit will also be attending. You *might* even catch Zack reporting live from our Instagram during the event 🤳 See you there! 👋 #ACEEE #ACEEESummerStudy #Decarbonization #EnergyEfficiency

How do you wire a heat pump? This is just one of the topics Ryan Hoger unpacks in our Maximizing Your Facility series. This FREE educational series is great for building or facility managers, or anyone curious about energy and building management. 🎬 Watch the full series on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/4a4dsKE #ThermostatWiring #RTU #Thermostats #FacilityManagement Visual Video Description: The video begins with a white screen and text that reads "Thermostat Wiring Series Wiring a Heat Pump". Ryan speaks directly to the camera while standing in front of cooling equipment. We close with a white screen with a turquoise overlay that reads "Watch the full video on our YouTube channel" in white text, with a green film icon. Below, it reads "This video was made possible with support from" while various logos appear on the screen. At the bottom, the words "Maximize your Facility" can be seen in magenta text.

Teachers–this one's for you! 🍎 Slipstream and KEEP - Wisconsin's K-12 Energy Education Program are excited to offer an online synchronous workshop on Thursday, August 15 from 9am-11:15am. We'll orient high school educators to using Sketchbox, a free building energy modeling tool, with their students.✏️ This workshop welcomes teachers new to Sketchbox and those who have participated in past trainings. We will be covering new facets of this powerful energy modeling tool during this year’s workshop. Don't miss it! ➡️ Learn more and sign up with the event info linked below:

Air source heat pumps are becoming more and more a part of the residential landscape. 🏘️ ✅ Join us for our next B4 webinar: Air Source Heat Pumps and Electrification, Wednesday, August 21 at 8am. We'll review how air source heat pumps fit into the residential electrification landscape and detail how the new generation of ASHPs are equipped to provide space heating needs in cold climates. ✏️ You'll learn to: -Identify how ASHP technology fits into the residential electrification landscape -Detail how the new generation of variable-capacity ASHPs work in cold climates -Prioritize residential new construction and retrofit applications with the strongest value proposition for ASHPs in the Upper Midwest -Recommend how to integrate ASHPs into your business and understand best practices for equipment specifiers in sizing and selecting ASHPs -Understand basic control strategies for ASHPs Register today: b4conference.org/webinars #B4 #B4Conference #ASHP #AirSourceHeatPumps #Electrification

What's the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund? And what should we know about it? 🔹 Our Managing Director of Service Development, Claire Cowan, joins us in today's Whiteboard Wednesday video to unpack the GGRF—what it is, and how the funds will likely be deployed this year. Claire recently moderated a panel at the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) Summit with three organizations involved in deploying these funds: The Community Preservation Corporation, Rewiring America, and Opportunity Finance Network. 🔉Tune in for some of Claire's takeaways on how we might expect the funds to be integrated into local communities in 2024, and learn more about the GGRF by visiting the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s website: https://lnkd.in/eD-yGYut #GGRF #GreenhouseGasReductionFund #Decarbonization 🎥 Visual Video Description: An introduction slide with the Whiteboard Wednesday logo "bounces" into the frame over a blue background with white text that reads "What should we know about the GGRF?". Claire talks directly to the camera as magenta icons appear at the top of the screen. A teal green background appears with white text that reads "Stay tuned for more" and the white version of the Whiteboard Wednesday logo. The website URL "slipstreaminc.org" is at the bottom of the screen in magenta text.

We are representing in Toronto! 🙌 ✈️ Slipstream Senior Director of Partnership Development Deb Dynako is heading to Toronto, Canada, for the AESP Summer Conference, July 23-25. This year’s theme is “Optimizing the Demand Flexibility Value Chain.” 🏢 Deb will moderate a panel of experts at the session: Advancing Building Conditioning: Innovations in Heating Technologies and Demand Flexibility on July 24, 4 PM, to explore cutting-edge solutions for building conditioning. Here they will discuss the retrofit potential of residential dual-fuel heating systems that can optimize energy usage and reduce costs, the role of gas heat pumps (GHPs) in addressing grid demand, and more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gFDSzynQ According to Deb, “Summer Con brings to light the successes and lessons learned by expert marketers, engineers, evaluators, and policy folks to show a faster way for all.” If you run into Deb, make sure to stop and say “hi!” 👋 #AESP #SummerCon #energyefficiency #grid

💚 Slipstream Program Manager Rachel Krogman has a passion for helping people with low to moderate incomes in communities across the Midwest and beyond. Rachel and her teammates work with struggling families and individuals to provide them access to critical repair and rehab as well as energy efficiency resources to make their homes healthier, safer, and hopefully more affordable. Rachel also partners with municipalities, utilities, nonprofit organizations, contractors, and many others doing this difficult work (this work is no small feat, but is rewarding and so worth it) to positively impact their lives today and for years to come! 🏡 Rachel specializes in both single-family and manufactured homes and has spent her entire career in residential building and construction, from custom and production homes to truss and component buildings, prior to being at Slipstream. She has always had a natural affinity for the feeling that everyone deserves a place they can call home and the complex and varying needs that go along with maintaining and updating those homes. 👨👩👦 Rachel has been at Slipstream for over 15 years and enjoys the mission-based nature of the work Slipstream does and helping to make a difference in others' lives, especially those who often have no other means to do so. 👏

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the 30th Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards! 🏘️ The awards recognize outstanding achievement in real estate development and community building that leads to stronger and healthier neighborhoods. Lawson House, a recently renovated historic building providing 406 housing units in the Gold Coast, won the Polk Bros. Foundation Affordable Rental Housing Preservation Award, which celebrates a specific real estate project in the City of Chicago that has preserved affordable rental housing. Slipstream engineer Emily Golen provided technical assistance during the renovation as a part of Slipstream’s role in helping to create a high-performance energy efficient building, which is expected to achieve 670,905 kWh of savings! ➡️ Learn more about Lawson House: https://bit.ly/4cr7EfW #CNDA30