October 2025 ACM SIGEnergy Newsletter
Content
1. Announcing ACM Sustainability Week 2026
2. ACM eEnergy’26 — Call for Test of Time Award Nominations and Call
for Workshop Proposals
3. ACM BuildSys’25 — Call for Participation (Early Bird Reg Ends at Oct
17)
4. Energy Informatics Review (EIR)
5. 2026 SIGEnergy Awards — Call for Nominations
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. Announcing ACM Sustainability Week 2026
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 interdisciplinary
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!
David Irwin (SIGEnergy Chair)
Jorge Ortiz (BuildSys Steering Committee Chair)
Adam Wierman (e-Energy Steering Committee Chair)
Omid Ardakanian (Sustainability Week General Co-Chair)
Clayton Miller (Sustainability Week General Co-Chair)
https://energy.acm.org/announcing-acm-sustainability-week-2026/
2. ACM eEnergy’26 — Call for Test of Time Award Nominations and Call
for Workshop Proposals
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.
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.
We are excited to announce that ACM e-Energy 2026 will be part of the
inaugural ACM Sustainability Week
(https://energy.acm.org/sustainability-week/), taking place in Banff,
Alberta, Canada, from June 22 to 25, 2026. We invite strong submissions
that present conceptual advances, as well as innovations in system
design, implementation, and experimentation. New this year, we have
introduced four methodological tracks to better align submissions with
appropriate reviewers and to clarify the scope of each contribution.
More details at: https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2026/
*** Call for Test of Time Award Nominations ***
The ACM eEnergy Test of Time Award (ToTA) Committee is now accepting
nominations for the 2026 award. This prestigious award recognizes papers
that are at least 10 years old and have made a lasting impact on energy
systems and informatics research.
📅 Nomination deadline: November 15, 2025
🔗 More details: https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2026/pages/cftota.php
For questions, please contact the 2026 ToTA committee chair, Astrid
Nieße ([email protected]).
*** Call for Workshop Proposals ***
The 17th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy
Systems (ACM e-Energy 2026) invites proposals for high-quality workshops
to be co-located with the conference.
Workshops are an opportunity to dive deep into emerging research topics
at the intersection of computing, communication, and energy systems,
providing a platform for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to
exchange ideas and build collaborations.
📅 Proposal deadline: November 30, 2025
📍 Location: Banff, AB, Canada
📚 Accepted workshop papers will appear in the Companion Proceedings of
the ACM Sustainability Week.
🔗 More details:
https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2026/pages/cfwp.php
3. ACM BuildSys’25 — Call for Participation (Early Bird Reg Ends on Oct
17)
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.
The Registration is now open, and the early bird registration ends at
23:59 pm MST on Oct 17th, 2025.
👉 This year’s program will feature two distinguished keynote
presentations:
(1) Yiran Chen, Duke University – Electrical and Computer Engineering,
“Enabling Edge Intelligence: Foundations, Systems, and Applications”;
(2) Rishee Jain, Stanford University – Civil and Environmental
Engineering, “Urban Informatics: Harnessing data to understand dynamics
between people, buildings and energy systems in cities”.
More information about ACM BuildSys’25 can be found here:
https://buildsys.acm.org/2025/
4. 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.
5. 2026 SIGEnergy Awards — Call for Nominations
The SIGEnergy Award Committees are now accepting nominations for next
year’s awards.
*** 2026 SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award ***
The annual SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes an
outstanding Ph.D. thesis in the field of energy systems and informatics.
The key evaluation criteria are the depth, impact, and novelty of the
thesis’ contributions. The award winner receives an honorarium of US
$1000, free registration to e-Energy or BuildSys, and a crystal trophy.
Next deadline: November 30, 2025, AoE (theses accepted by the
corresponding institute between Sept. 1, 2024, and Aug. 31, 2025, are
eligible)
Submission site: https://sigenergydda26.hotcrp.com (Note: Please
combine all nomination material into one pdf file for submission to the
HotCRP system, with a title of “SDDA Nomination Package for <name>”.)
More details can be found here:
https://energy.acm.org/call-for-nomination-2026-sigenergy-doctoral-dissertation-award/
*** 2026 SIGEnergy Rising Star Award ***
The annual SIGEnergy Rising Star Award recognizes a young researcher who
has made outstanding research contributions to the field of energy
systems and informatics, within nine years of receiving her/his highest
university degree. Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher’s
contributions will be key evaluation criteria.
Remark: At the discretion of the award committee, eligibility may be
adjusted to account for documented career interruptions, including but
not limited to medical leaves, family leaves, and military service.
Questions of eligibility should be directed to the award chair in
advance of nomination. The ultimate decision of whether an interruption
is acceptable is subject to the award committee.
Next deadline: November 30, 2025, AoE (nominees should receive their PhD
degrees after Jan. 1 2017 to be eligible)
Submission site: https://sigenergyrsa26.hotcrp.com (Note: Please
combine all nomination material into one pdf file for submission to the
HotCRP system, with a title of “SRSA Nomination Package for <name>”.)
More details can be found here:
https://energy.acm.org/call-for-nomination-2026-sigenergy-rising-star-award/
*** 2026 SIGEnergy Achievement Award ***
Brief info: The annual SIGEnergy Achievement Award recognizes
significant and lasting contributions by an individual to energy systems
and informatics.
Next deadline: Jan 1, 2026, AoE
Submission site: https://sigenergyaa26.hotcrp.com (Note: Please
combine all nomination material into one pdf file for submission to the
HotCRP system.)
More details can be found here:
https://energy.acm.org/call-for-nomination-2026-sigenergy-achievement-award/
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