June 2025 ACM SIGEnergy Newsletter
1. ACM eEnergy’25 — Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 17 – 20, 2025
2. ACM BuildSys’25 — Updates!
3. Energy Informatics Review (EIR)
4. SIGEnergy Achievement Award 2025 Winner Announcement
5. Sustainability Week 2026 Announcement
6. SIGEnergy Graduate Seminar Series
7. ACM SIGEnergy resource for energy-related data sets
8. Posting additional information (contact Shijia Pan:
[email protected])
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1. ACM eEnergy’25 — Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 17 – 20, 2025
ACM e-Energy is the premier forum for research at the intersection of
computing and communication technologies with energy systems. It has
established a strong track record for high-quality research in the
application of computing and networked systems to make legacy systems
more energy-efficient and in the design, analysis, and development of
sustainable and innovative energy systems.
The 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy
Systems (ACM e-Energy 2025) and its co-located tutorials and workshops
will be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 17 – 20, 2025 (the
workshops are on June 17 and the main technical conference is during
June 18 – 20).
By bringing together researchers in a high-quality single-track
conference with significant opportunities for individual and small-group
interaction, it will serve as a major forum for presentations and
discussions that will shape the future of this area.
Registration for ACM e-Energy 2025 is now open: https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2025/registration.php
Register now at: https://web.cvent.com/event/63071ef5-66f7-4d38-9cdd-b2e1c9c4748a/summary
2. ACM BuildSys’25 — Updates!
The International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings,
Cities, and Transportation (ACM BuildSys) is a highly selective,
single-track forum for research on systems issues covering all aspects
of the built environment, broadly defined.
The 12th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient
Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys’25) will be held on
November 20-21, 2025, in Golden, Colorado, USA. BuildSys’25 will provide
a venue for researchers and practitioners to present research results,
share experiences, and participate in the development of systems that
address the interdependence of buildings, cities, and transportation.
*** Important Dates for Main Conference ***
– Abstract Registration: July 18th, 2025, 23:59 AOE
– Paper Submission: July 25th, 2025, 23:59 AOE
– Paper Notification: September 19th, 2025, 23:59 AOE
– One-Shot Revision Submission: October 10th, 2025, 23:59 AOE
– Revision Notification: October 14th, 2025, 23:59 AOE
– Camera Ready Submission: October 17th, 2025, 23:59 AOE
– Main Conference Date: November 20-21, 2025 (Workshops are on November
19, 2025)
Call for posters and demos is here: https://buildsys.acm.org/2025/demos/
Call for Workshop/Tutorial is here: https://buildsys.acm.org/2025/tutorial/
More information about ACM BuildSys’25 can be found here: https://buildsys.acm.org/2025/
3. Energy Informatics Review (EIR)
ACM SIGENERGY Energy Informatics Review (EIR) welcomes articles on
SIGEnergy’s topics, namely within the intersection of computing and
communication technologies with smart and sustainable energy systems and
the built infrastructure.
Check the current issues! We had a Special Issue for the conference
proceedings of the DACH+ Conference on Energy Informatics, and the next
issue will comprise many papers from the HOTCARBON workshop 2024.
New ideas in the field of Energy Informatics should be spread early and
timely in the community, to foster discussions on assumptions and
methods and help to trigger additional investigations. Specifically,
papers with early evaluation or feasibility studies are highly
encouraged. Additionally, ACM EIR seeks high-quality papers and subjects
them to a profound review process. While innovation and timeliness are
the major criteria for its acceptance, technical robustness and
readability will also be considered in the review process. Submit your
file at https://sigenergy-eir.hotcrp.com/. Reviewed papers accepted for
publication are accessible through the ACM Digital Library.
Additionally, editorial content, like thoughts and discussions on new
research directions, is published with ACM EIR. Contact
[email protected] for any questions and ideas.
4. SIGEnergy Achievement Award 2025 Winner Announcement
Since 2025, SIGEnergy establishes an annual Achievement Award to
recognize significant and lasting contributions by an individual to
energy systems and informatics.
For the 2025 cohort, the award committee has chosen Srinivasan Keshav
from University of Cambridge, as the inaugural SIGEnergy Achievement
Award winner, for the following citation:
for pioneering contributions to energy systems and informatics,
including seminal research, capacity building, and helping to create
SIGENERGY and eEnergy.
Srinivasan Keshav is the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science in
the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of
Cambridge. His interests lie broadly at the intersection of computer
science and sustainability. He received a B.Tech in Computer Science and
Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He was subsequently a
Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs and an Associate Professor
at Cornell. In 1999, he left academia to co-found Ensim Corporation and
GreenBorder Technologies Inc. Returning to academia, he was at the
University of Waterloo in Canada from 2003 to 2019, holding a Canada
Research Chair and later the Cisco Chair in Smart Grid. He is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada, ACM, and IEEE, and a Distinguished
Alumnus of IIT Delhi. He has served as Chair of ACM SIGCOMM and founding
Vice-Chair of ACM SIGEnergy.
Keshav will receive the award at ACM e-Energy 2025, June 17-20, 2025,
Rotterdam, Netherlands.
5. Sustainability Week 2026 Announcement
In June 2026, ACM SIGEnergy is excited to announce that it will host the
first annual ACM Sustainability Week that will co-locate its flagship
conferences, ACM e-Energy and ACM BuildSys, along with associated
workshops. These conferences represent the top conferences in the world
focused on research at the intersection of computing and energy. The
inaugural ACM Sustainability Week will be held at Banff Centre for Arts
and Creativity within Banff National Park in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Banff’s amazing natural landscape, including nearby mountains, glaciers,
lakes, and hiking trails, makes it an ideal venue for a forum presenting
state-of-the-art sustainability-focused research. Please make plans to
submit your best work to e-Energy and BuildSys and to attend in June
2026! Note that this change will shift BuildSys from having a summer
deadline in 2026 to an earlier winter deadline (likely in mid-to-late
January 2026), so make sure to plan accordingly!
Below, we discuss some of the reasons that motivated the creation of ACM
Sustainability Week and for co-locating e-Energy and BuildSys. The
catalyzing event was ACM SenSys’s decision in Fall 2024 to merge with
other conferences and become part of the CPS-IoT Week event held
annually in the Spring. ACM BuildSys originally evolved out of a
workshop held at SenSys, and so, historically, had been co-located with
SenSys and held annually in November since 2009. The SIGEnergy Executive
Committee and the BuildSys Steering Committee discussed multiple options
for BuildSys moving forward, including not only co-locating with
e-Energy, but also holding a stand-alone conference or exploring a
merger with CPS-IoT Week. Indeed, we’d like to highlight that ACM
BuildSys 2025 will be held as usual in November 2025 as a stand-alone
conference at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado (with the
usual summer 2025 paper deadline)! Thanks to Dong Chen at Mines for
hosting and serving as General Chair!
Ultimately, the committees felt that co-locating BuildSys with e-Energy
could provide a foundation for an exciting event that showcases the full
breadth and depth of SIGEnergy’s research. BuildSys and e-Energy
represent separate, but complementary, research communities that can
mutually benefit from closer interactions with each other. ACM BuildSys
generally emphasizes optimizations at the “edge’’ of the energy
system—the buildings, cities, and transportation systems that consume
energy—and thus has strong intersections with both civil and mechanical
engineering. Since BuildSys grew out of a computer systems conference
(SenSys), the community often takes a systems approach to solving
problems. ACM e-Energy generally emphasizes optimizing the energy
“network,’’ e.g., power generation, transmission, and distribution
systems, and thus has historically had strong intersections with the
power systems community and electrical engineering. ACM e-Energy also
evolved, in part, out of computer networking and an interest in
exploring how to apply computer networking and distributed systems
principles to energy systems. As a result, the e-Energy community has
often taken an algorithmic optimization approach to solving problems.
In essence, BuildSys and e-Energy both apply computational techniques to
optimize energy and carbon emissions, but often from different
perspectives using different approaches. Thus, one goal in co-locating
the conferences is to expose both communities to a wider range of
perspectives and approaches. As such, Sustainability Week will include
a number of joint events across both conferences, including plenary
talks, poster/demo sessions, workshops, and a Ph.D. forum. As mentioned
above, another important goal is to provide a showcase event for ACM
SIGEnergy. As a relatively new SIG with a strong inter-disciplinary
component, there are many in the broader computing research community
that may not be aware of us. We hope that this annual event will
provide a larger platform to increase the visibility of
SIGEnergy-sponsored research across both conferences. We’d like to
emphasize that, while BuildSys and e-Energy will co-locate and
coordinate closely as part of Sustainability Week moving forward, they
will remain independent conferences with their own steering committees,
program committees, review processes, and control over topical emphasis.
We will provide further updates on details for the 2026 ACM
Sustainability Week as they become available. We look forward to seeing
everyone in Banff in June 2026!
6. SIGEnergy Graduate Seminar Series
ACM SIGEnergy Graduate Student Seminar is a monthly virtual seminar
series in which graduate students present their ongoing work to peers
and mentors around the world. The seminar series provides an opportunity
for knowledge exchange in our community between our conferences,
e-Energy and BuildSys.
Seminar Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sigenergy-seminar/
Talk signup form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfe0LBjMayjkxTwD_wrYwtQNXFpuH-NzwGkXFu12Mh9mMlzAg/viewform
Join Seminar Google Group via this link: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/sigenergy-graduate-student-seminar?hl=en
7. ACM SIGEnergy resource for energy-related data sets
The ACM SIGEnergy website has a Resources page with a variety of data
sets that are freely available for use by the energy community. It is
available at https://energy.acm.org/resources/.
We invite you to share any energy-related data sets, models, and
software we have not added to this page. Please send this information
directly to Gabe Fierro at [email protected].
8. Posting additional information
If you would like to post additional information, such as academic job
opportunities, Ph.D. scholarships, or a new energy systems course, then
please send me the details, and I will include them in the next monthly
newsletter. My email address is [email protected].
As always, the ACM SIGEnergy website has the latest information. We
welcome you to peruse it: https://energy.acm.org/