Mark Davidson, sustainability officer at JouleX, will serve on the 12-member steering committee for the new DOE Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) IT-Specialist Program.

Davidson will work in collaboration with representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and ANCIS Incorporated.

JouleX notes that this committee is responsible for developing curriculum and training requirements for performing energy assessments in data centers. This knowledge is then transferred to data center staff for implementation of best practices for optimizing data center energy efficiency.

The IT component of the DCEP Program is focused on energy assessments in data centers instead on the design of data centers. Also, the DCEP IT-Specialist Program is especially targeted toward employees of property management companies, engineering consulting firms, service companies, data center end users, state energy agencies, colleges, and utilities.

“We want to raise the standards of those involved in energy assessments in order to accelerate energy savings in the dynamic and energy-intensive marketplace of data centers,” said Magnus K. Herrlin, Ph.D., program lead for DCEP. “We look to industry leaders such as JouleX to provide subject matter experts who can work collaboratively with other organizations and agencies to develop training, auditing and education content to aid program candidates in curbing high energy costs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, independently validating Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and other metrics, and building internal expertise to multiply energy savings within their own data centers.”

“ Our JouleX Energy Manager technology has allowed us to successfully perform corporate energy audits worldwide, so I look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with my industry colleagues to develop a program that helps data center IT professionals acquire the necessary skill sets and best practices to evaluate the energy status and efficiency opportunities in their respective organizations,” said Davidson.