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April 2026 MEETING SPONSOR
Individual Meeting Sponsorship includes:
• Table outside the meeting room for a table top display or literature
• Logo on welcome message during lunch meeting
• Announcement of your sponsorship during the meeting introduction
Whether the reason is Energy Independence, National Security or Climate Change, reducing our use of Carbon will be critical to our society’s future. One critically important aspect about fossil fuels is that they are not just forms of energy, they are forms of “stored” energy. If we are going to reduce our dependence on them by using renewable energy like Wind or Solar, which are forms pure energy, we will also have to replace the storage aspect of them. Energy Storage on both the Grid side and Building side of the meter will be covered along with their respective applications.
Bruce B. Lindsay is the Business Development Leader for Trane Technologies’ Thermal Energy Storage systems. He has been involved in thermal energy storage research, engineering, sales, and operation for over 30 years. Bruce received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. He received a Master of Science in Energy Resources at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught graduate engineering courses. He received a Master of Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Bruce began his energy career at Peoples Natural Gas in Pittsburgh in industrial sales, conducting energy audits in Western Pennsylvania. He underwent special industry training and received a Chartered Industrial Gas Consultant designation. He was recruited by the Gas Research Institute to conduct national programs to develop new natural gas-fueled cooling and heating systems, including a line of engine-driven chillers and a line of pulse combustion boilers. He was similarly recruited by the Electric Power Research Institute to serve as the Executive Director of the Thermal Storage Applications Research Center at the University of Wisconsin –Madison. He worked with utilities, HVAC manufacturers (including Trane and CALMAC), researchers, facility managers, and ASHRAE TC6.9, Thermal Energy Storage, to promote thermal energy storage systems. His role was expanded to become the spokesperson for the US electric industry on the phaseout of CFC refrigerants and refrigerant management strategies. He joined ASHRAE TC2.5, Global Climate Change, and eventually served as Chair. Utility deregulation reduced R&D funding, and Bruce embraced the HVAC industry, working for Comfort Systems USA in national account sales. He joined ASHRAE TC7.8, Owning and Operating Costs, and eventually served as Chair. He briefly administered energy efficiency programs for the State of Wisconsin and obtained his Professional Engineer license. He returned to the HVAC industry, working with Temp-Air, then Johnson Controls in a performance contracting role.
In 2017, Bruce took a new career path and became the Energy Manager for Brevard County Public Schools in central Florida, the 50th largest school district in the US. He managed 84 schools, of which 20 had ice storage systems. Bruce quickly re-established his contacts in the thermal storage industry to repair the 20+ year old systems. He received his Certified Energy Manager designation. He published a history of thermal energy storage in the ASHRAE Journal and received the US Green Building Council’s 2020 Best of Green Schools-Transformation Award for his work on an ASHRAE Building Energy Quotient pilot program. He joined ASHRAE TC9.7, Educational Facilities, and he was appointed to the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force—Schools Team. He currently serves as President of the ASHRAE Space Coast Section.
In 2022, Trane Technologies reached out to ask Bruce to lead their thermal storage business. Trane acquired CALMAC ice tanks in 2017, seeing the need to offer energy storage as the electric grid transformed from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Bruce now serves as Program Chair for TC6.9, Thermal Storage, and as Region XII Refrigeration RVC, and was honored to be named an ASHRAE Life Member. He is also active in the Association of Energy Engineers, Association of Energy Service Professionals, and US Green Building Council.
