The Energy Education Center - Irwindale features interactive displays and demos to help visitors make better energy decisions and reduce their carbon footprint. It includes the Smart Energy Experience®, a full-scale demo home showcasing smart grid technologies, home energy management systems, solar power, and EV charging infrastructure. The Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Demand Response Lab demonstrates energy-saving heat pump water heaters, which are more efficient than gas and standard electric water heaters.
Additionally, the center offers a Tool Lending Library with over 400 tools for free borrowing to test, troubleshoot, or analyze equipment usage, and provides dozens of online classes and workshops available 24/7 on various energy topics.
An Up-Close Look at Energy-Saving Technologies
The 51,000 square-foot Energy Education Center - Irwindale also features cutting-edge interactive displays and demonstrations to show you how you can make better energy decisions and lower your carbon footprint.
Energy Education Center - Irwindale Guided Tour Reservations: energyeducationcenter@sce.com
The Smart Energy Experience®
Get a first-hand look at this full-scale operational demonstration home of tomorrow, and discover how smart grid technologies can help you use energy more efficiently, while also providing smarter, cleaner, more reliable power.
Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Demand Response Lab
Gain valuable insight into how you can reduce your electricity consumption and help decrease carbon emissions by upgrading your water heater – typically the second-highest source of energy use in residences (after heating and cooling systems).
Tours & Classes Free to the Public
Online and On-Demand Classes: Knowledge at Your Fingertips
Our dozens of online courses and workshops – from very basic to more advanced – provide you with learning opportunities to meet all of your energy needs. And, with our on-demand offerings, we’re open 24/7, 365 days a year.
Class categories include:
- Agriculture, Pumps, & Irrigation
- Building Performance
- Electrification & Decarbonization
- Energy Codes & Standards
- Energy Processes & Technology
- Foodservice
- Home Performance
- HVAC/R
- Lighting
- Other
- Renewable Energy & Sustainability
To stay up to date on the latest classes and workshops available:
Free Tool Lending Library
Need a tool for an upcoming project? Borrow one for up to two weeks for FREE through our Tool Lending Library Program. With over 400 tools available – ranging from digital meters and data loggers to temperature sensors and thermal cameras, to airflow hoods and more – you can test, troubleshoot or analyze equipment usage and have your project completed in no time.
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Energy Education Center - Irwindale
6090 N. Irwindale Ave.
Irwindale, CA 91702
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.