Annual Workshop
Tours
On Thursday, July 16th, two tours will be offered to workshop attendees. If you are interested in attending, please review the tour options and fill out the form below. There are capacities for both tours, so sign up soon! Both tours will meet at the S.J. Quinney College of Law and transportation will be provided.
Tour 1 (capacity 20): University of Utah.
- Stop 1: Tour the University of Utah’s LEED Platinum law school and explore its sustainable design features, including energy efficient systems, natural lighting, water conservation, and green building materials. Learn how the building supports environmental performance and occupant well being.
- Stop 2:
- NSF WIRED Global Center: Explore the Utah Smart Energy Laboratory’s power grid simulation testbed and learn how researchers test and improve emerging energy technologies in a realistic grid environment. Visitors will also learn about the NSF WIRED Center’s work to strengthen grid resilience across the Western Interconnection.
- Utah Nuclear Reactor Lab: Visit the Utah Nuclear Reactor Lab and learn how its TRIGA reactor supports research in nuclear energy, medicine, defense, and radiation modeling. The tour also highlights the lab’s role in training future engineers and reactor operators.
- Stop 3: Discover how the Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons uses geothermal technology for efficient heating and cooling. This tour includes a look at the building’s mechanical systems and how geothermal supports campus sustainability and decarbonization goals.
Tour 2 (capacity 14): Torus
- This 2-hour tour provides an inside look at Torus’s 545,000 square foot GigaOne manufacturing facility, where every Torus Station energy storage system is built. Visitors will see how flywheel and battery storage systems are manufactured and integrated to deliver resilience, capacity, and flexible load management for the electric grid. The tour includes approximately 0.5 miles of walking through the production floor and highlights how Torus systems are supporting grid operations today, including 236 unplanned dispatch events year to date with PacifiCorp, a 19 second ramp time, and 99.9% critical path uptime. Participants will be required to sign an NDA.