Presentation abstract:  As buildings professionals, it is highly likely we will experience significant changes during our careers in how building systems interact with other energy generating and energy consuming systems.  In particular, a rapid evolution underway in the power sector will have significant impacts on the buildings sector.  The result of this evolution is our new energy future, and that new future is not far away.  As a critical organization for buildings professionals across the globe, ASHRAE and its members must take an active role in the ongoing changes that will create this new energy future  by: becoming aware of the changes that are occurring and the opportunities they offer to the buildings industry; getting engaged in finding solutions to meet these opportunities; and starting now to be leaders as this new energy future becomes a reality.  This presentation will discuss what this new energy future is expected to be, describe what ASHRAE is doing to become aware, get engaged, and start now, and provide recommendations for how you can also participate in this evolution so we are all leaders in our new energy future.

Bio: Sheila J. Hayter, P.E., is ASHRAE’s President for the 2018-2019 term. Hayter has previously served on the Board of Directors as Treasurer, two terms as Vice President, and Director-at-Large. She is the recipient of ASHRAE's Distinguished Service Award, Exceptional Service Award, and an ASHRAE Technology Award. She is an ASHRAE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer.

In addition to her time served on the Board of Directors, Hayter has been Chair of the Finance Committee and Chair of the President-Elect Advisory Committee. She has held ASHRAE Society-level leadership roles on all three of the ASHRAE councils and many standing committees, technical committees, and presidential ad hoc committees.

With her vast ASHRAE experience, Hayter is focusing on ways to bridge from our energy past to the energy future and that connects buildings, energy and the environment.

Hayter is a research advisor with the Integrated Applications Center at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., where she has worked since 1992. She leads a team of experts who support international, federal, state, and local entities with the goal of significantly reducing nonrenewable energy consumption though optimized use of energy efficiency strategies and renewable energy technologies as well as addressing challenges to increase resiliency in the built environment.

Hayter’s work at NREL has included managing technical teams supporting U.S. federal agencies’ efforts to address energy efficiency and renewable energy objectives in addition to having managed sustainable buildings activities funded by the DOE Federal Energy Management Program. She also has managed the Photovoltaics (PV) for Buildings activities funded by the DOE Solar Program and evaluated building performance during the design and monitoring phases to support the DOE High Performance Buildings Program.

Hayter earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Kansas State University. Her roots in ASHRAE run deep. Her father, Richard Hayter, served as the ASHRAE president from 1995-1996.

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