Will Lintner, P.E.
Federal Energy Management Program Team Member
Department of Energy
Mr. Lintner is a team member of the Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program, where he is responsible for facilitating the use of new energy efficiency, water and renewable energy technologies and sustainable best practices within federal facilities, including laboratories and data centers. Through his efforts, DOE has come to lead the federal government in the number of buildings that are LEED-certified and the number of laboratories registered to be certified. In 2000, he was recognized by the Department of Energy for his contributions to reducing the DOE's own operating costs by over $100 million per year through investments in energy efficiency retrofit projects. He received the Presidential Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management in 2007 for contributions under the DOE/EPA 21st Century Program. Mr. Lintner is a professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a graduate of George Washington University and George Mason University.
Josh Silverman
Moderator
Deputy Director - Office of Environmental Policy & Assistance
Dept. of Energy
Josh Silverman is the Deputy Director of the Office of Environmental Policy and Assistance at the US Department of Energy. In overseeing Departmental corporate environmental policies, requirements, and reporting processes, Silverman supports DOE implementation of Executive Orders 13423 and 13514 and its Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan. He has played a vital role in managing the award winning DOE green IT program, achieving national recognition for the sustainable lifecycle management of DOE electronic assets.
Silverman has led DOE efforts to implement sustainability at its own facilities, including chairing Departmental working groups on Sustainable Buildings, Environmental Stewardship, and Toxic Chemical Reduction. He was the primary author of the Department’s guide on High Performance and Sustainable Building.
Silverman previously worked as a regulator and consumer advocate in the telecommunications and utility industries. He joined DOE ten years ago after attaining his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University, following his dissertation on the evolution of environment, safety, and health practices at the Manhattan Project, AEC, and DOE.
In February, environmental considerations morphed from a concern to a mandate with OMB’s federal data center consolidation plan. OMB cited redundancy, relatively low utilization rates of current infrastructure, and the operating costs involved in purchasing and maintaining hardware, software, real estate and cooling for the exponentially growing number of data centers. In addition, 2006 figures point to 6 billion kWh of electricity consumed by federal data centers, a number projected to double by 2011 if the 1,100 federal data centers are not consolidated. This session will examine:
- the status and progress of data center consolidation initiatives
- realistic expectations for energy conservation through consolidation
- other environmental considerations, such as recycling hardware from defunct data centers