Trane Technologies

Hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Department of Energy’s Thermal Energy Recovery & Management Center of Excellence, the workshop focuses on testing, validation, integration, and deployment of high-temperature heat pumps across technology readiness levels. Plenary topics include the U.S. industrial heat-pump landscape, market pathways, technology readiness, economics, deployment pathways, technology advances, R&D priorities, demonstrations, and deployment lessons. Breakout discussions cover OEM roadmaps and product readiness; working fluids, compressors, component supply chains, advanced heat exchangers, and system integration; end-user needs, controls, thermal storage, and grid flexibility; and standards, codes, testing, certification, financing, commercialization, and public-private partnerships. Report-outs and a facilitated discussion address priority needs, gaps, and recommended actions, followed by workshop synthesis on cross-cutting R&D, demonstration, deployment, and partnership priorities.

The program covers corporate sustainability strategy across finance and the business case, communications, organizational change, data and disclosure, AI tools, decarbonization, supply chains, nature, and circular systems. Its Energy and Water programs add sessions on corporate energy procurement, grid flexibility, and water stewardship. Listed sessions address battery storage and flexible power; clean-energy procurement amid uncertainty; hourly energy matching; building decarbonization; corporate AI’s carbon costs; critical-material sourcing and material recovery for supply-chain resilience; circularity’s business case; Scope 3 supplier engagement; water risk and corporate balance sheets; AI and water stewardship; and collective action on the Colorado River. Other sessions cover regenerative agriculture, nature finance, sustainability disclosure, and communicating sustainability to policymakers and markets. The event also lists a keynote, tutorials, breakouts, workshops, and an Advanced Perspectives Program.