Technical Guidance and Assistance

ORNL provides a wide range of technical guidance and assistance for a variety of customers. In fact, technical assistance figures into nearly all of our capabilities and activities. Our energy and technology experts have applied their skills to energy projects and federal facilities around the world.

In our support for the Federal Energy Management Program, and for other customers, we provide technical guidance and assistance focused on the following activities and areas of expertise:
• All aspects of financed energy projects
• Geothermal heat pumps
• Combined heat and power
• Superboilers
• Wireless sensors
• Sustainable buildings and emerging technologies
• Energy audits
• Design assistance
• Technical review of designs and specifications
• Strategic energy management (benchmarking, commissioning, metering, and trouble-shooting and solving energy escape problems)

Examples of ORNL technical assistance efforts:
• SNS Design Assistance support
• Miami Courthouse
• National Parks Service