
Upcoming events.

Happy Hour at Salesforce Tower Park
Join us for Happy Hour at Barebottle Beer Garden in Salesforce Park. Catch up with like minded friends and colleagues in the clean tech industry. The first drink is on us. We hope to see you there!
Date: Wednesday, September 10th, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Barebottle Beer Garden at SF Park, 425 Mission St. San Francisco, CA, 94104
Suggested $10 donation is welcome to keep fun events like this going.
Happily provided by: ProspectSV, Effecterra, Alter Engineers, IDeAs Consulting Inc, AIASF COTE, and Flow Environmental Systems

Mapping the Transition to Climate-Friendly Refrigerant Technologies
Join us for an overview of the refrigerant regulatory landscape driving the transition to climate-friendly refrigerants. This session will cover both HVAC and refrigeration project examples, technology trends, and expected impact on technology performance.

Managing Energy in Multifamily Housing - Two Innovative Technology Pilots
Managing Energy in Multifamily Housing - Two Innovative Technology Pilots
Date: 9/30/25 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT
ProspectSV is a part of two California Energy Commission-funded technology demonstration projects, which include work on opening up electrical capacity in older multifamily housing developments. These projects will demonstrate Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s controls and open source software implemented with plug-in batteries for smart panels at low-income multi-family apartment complexes in Humboldt, Sonoma, and Mendocino Counties. The goal of these demonstrations is to open up electrical capacity constraints of older, retrofitted buildings to electrify them. Learn how to address challenges in electrifying older buildings, as well as both our plans and use case outlines for the projects.
Speakers:
Rongxin Yin, Technology Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
David Kaneda, Principal and Thought Leader, IDeAs Consulting
Kimberly Beltran, Technical Programs Manager, Sonoma Clean Power
Sean Armstrong, Managing Principal, Redwood Energy
Ilse Villacorta, Senior Project Manager, ProspectSV

EPIC Symposium
11th Annual EPIC Symposium
The California Energy Commission, in collaboration with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison Company, and San Diego Gas & Electric Company will host the 11th annual Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) Symposium on Tuesday, October 7, in the California Natural Resources Agency building in Sacramento.
Join the dialogue and discover the latest technologies, innovations, and research in the EPIC portfolio. The symposium will feature panel discussions with clean energy leaders, policy makers, researchers, and entrepreneurs focused on energy equity and affordability, battery safety, next-generation vehicle charging, large building decarbonization, and more!

Happy Hour at Salesforce Tower Park
Join us for Happy Hour at Barebottle Beer Garden in Salesforce Park. Catch up with like minded friends and colleagues in the clean tech industry. The first drink is on us. We hope to see you there!
Date: Wednesday, October 8th, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Barebottle Beer Garden at SF Park, 425 Mission St. San Francisco, CA, 94104
Suggested $10 donation is welcome to keep fun events like this going.
Happily provided by: ProspectSV, Effecterra, Alter Engineers, IDeAs Consulting Inc, AIASF COTE, and Flow Environmental Systems

Cost-Effective Electrification and Power Backup Strategies for Older Multifamily Buildings
Cost-Effective Electrification and Power Backup Strategies for Older Multifamily Buildings
A major challenge in California’s effort to eliminate carbon emissions by 2045, is fully electrifying the almost 90% of an estimated 13.5 M existing residences currently using natural gas. Apartments are 29% of California housing, and >50% of housing built annually in California since 2009. Older multifamily housing buildings are often undersized for current decarbonization goals. Units built in the 1970s-2000s often provided only 60A service at each unit, meaning the currently needed minimum 100A service is rarely in place. Most states will face a similar challenge. There is a retrofit problem with these buildings. Current electrical design consistently oversized service for anticipated use. It’s problematic to further upsize services to meet increased loads and code requirements as units are electrified. Converting natural gas furnaces, clothes dryers, and boilers to heat pump technology, gas stovetops and ranges to induction, and even adding an EV charger, represent large but additional intermittent loads to a residence. The current approach of outsized electrical service upgrades would only further exacerbate the problem and result in unnecessarily high costs.
This session will highlight a better solution: combining available capacity for routine tenant needs, with available additional capacity for occasional needs, at less than the cost of the conventional approach. Low-income communities with tenants who are vulnerable under power loss is a clear case for accessible, low-cost power backup approaches. This approach enables participation in cost savings opportunities and the possibility of reducing the burden of power safety shut offs. Panelists will highlight two unique multifamily demonstration projects in Humboldt and Sonoma County.
Panelists:
Doug Davenport, CEO, ProspectSV
David Kaneda, Principal and Thought Leader, IDeAs Consulting
Sean Armstrong, Managing Principal, Redwood Energy

Happy Hour at Salesforce Tower Park
Join us for Happy Hour at Barebottle Beer Garden in Salesforce Park. Catch up with like minded friends and colleagues in the clean tech industry. The first drink is on us. We hope to see you there!
Date: Wednesday, August 27th, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Barebottle Beer Garden at SF Park, 425 Mission St. San Francisco, CA, 94104
Suggested $10 donation is welcome to keep fun events like this going.
Happily provided by: ProspectSV, Effecterra, Alter Engineers, IDeAs Consulting Inc, AIA SF COTE, and Flow Environmental Systems

Talking about Decarbonization Series: Developing a Carbon Strategy
ProspectSV, IdeAs Consulting Inc, Alter Engineers, and AIASF COTE has an ongoing webinar series on Talking about Decarbonization. We discussed current decarbonization trends, how to communicate sustainability ideas to various clients, and how to apply these new strategies to a project. This session covered how to address various constraints, set goals early, and assess options to lock in good ideas. The panelists shared success stories from case studies and general advice on incorporating decarbonization design practice and strategies from their experience in the field. Presentation qualified for 1-hour HSW AIA Continuing Education.

Advanced Heat Pump Solutions for Decarbonizing Large Buildings and Commercial Cold Storage
ProspectSV kicked off two California Energy Commission-funded technology demonstration projects this Summer. The projects will showcase two distinct applications of Flow Environmental Systems’ ANSWR CO2 heat pump: (1) simultaneous heating, cooling, and domestic hot water production at Berkeley Lab’s FLEXLAB testbed facility for large commercial buildings, and (2) low and medium temperature refrigeration with advanced defrost controls and thermal storage for commercial cold storage at Straus Family Creamery. Learn more about these new efforts, including our plans for conducting each demonstration and how we hope to translate findings across the industry.