AI Bootcamp for Energy Professionals: Smarter Audits, Faster Analysis, Better Results

Includes a Live Web Event on 07/23/2026 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

Webinar Information

Virtual

July 23, 2026

0.2 AEE Credits | 0.1 CEU

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Webinar Description

A virtual webinar, held over 1 hour.

Artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT are rapidly becoming practical tools for energy professionals, helping streamline analyses, documentation, and communication across energy conservation projects. This webinar will demonstrate how AI can support common energy management tasks by showing how well-designed prompts and purpose-built Custom GPTs can help produce more accurate, consistent, and actionable technical outputs. Participants will receive links to five different Custom GPT tools, designed to support a different element of energy conservation work: audit screening, utility bill review, steam trap evaluation, motor tag review, and energy-savings idea generation. By the end of the discussion, participants will have a clearer understanding of how to integrate AI tools into daily energy management workflows to save time, improve consistency, and expand creative problem-solving.

About the Presenters

John R. Puskar, CEM, CIEP, P.E., AEE Fellow, ASME Fellow is a nationally recognized energy professional with 40+ years in industrial fuels, combustion systems, and energy management. John has completed more than 200 energy audits and worked in more than 400 industrial plants across 16 countries, helping organizations reduce energy use, improve reliability, and mitigate risk. He founded and led CEC Combustion Services and today advises clients through Prescient Technical Services on high-impact energy and safety initiatives across refineries, steel, food, pulp and paper, and advanced manufacturing.

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John Puskar

Instructor

Mr. Puskar is a licensed professional engineer practicing in the energy world for over 40 years. He is a nationally recognized industrial energy expert. Mr. Puskar’s experiences in the industrial world have focused on fuels and combustion equipment. His knowledge and experiences include essential topics for the United States and its energy future, including being part of standards committees for LNG (liquified natural gas), fuel gas codes, boilers, industrial ovens and furnaces, and wastewater treatment plants. Mr. Puskar has performed over 200 energy audits in facilities ranging from refineries and chemical plants to steel plants, paper mills, and auto manufacturing facilities.

Mr. Puskar’s global experiences have provided a unique perspective of the role of energy in more than 20 countries. Mr. Puskar has authored natural gas policy documents for the State of Israel. Mr. Puskar has conducted energy and resource audits in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Malaysia, Spain, and many others. He was invited to speak on energy-related topics at the 6th China Process Safety Symposium in Qingdao, China.

Mr. Puskar is an energy innovator. He has a patent for making ammonia process plants more efficient. His designs and projects, including replacing industrial coal plants with decentralized natural gas systems, have won numerous awards. The Association of Energy Engineers provided Mr. Puskar with their “Legends in Energy Award” in 2019 to recognize his lifetime of energy achievements. In 2014 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers provided him with their national Uzgiris-Barnett Award Medal for his lifetime of safety innovations in the energy world.

Mr. Puskar is an energy educator. He has developed the AEE (Association for Energy Engineers) and CIEP (Certified Industrial Energy Practitioner) certification courses. He has often delivered this course to iconic American companies and their staff, such as Goodyear. Mr. Puskar has trained thousands in energy conservation practices throughout the United States and other countries.

Mr. Puskar holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, and a master's degree in business from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to these, Mr. Puskar is a Certified Energy Manager and a Certified Industrial Energy Practitioner. Mr. Puskar is also a licensed professional engineer in 6 states. Mr. Puskar has other energy-related credentials, such as being a certified infrared thermographer, demand-side management expert, and certified cogeneration professional.

Mr. Puskar's company he started and later sold after 30 years, “CEC Combustion Services,” provided industrial combustion systems retrofits throughout every significant industry operated in the modern world. He has been in and out of over 300 industrial facilities in 20 countries for this work. He holds contractor trade licenses for electrical, mechanical, refrigeration, hydronics, plumbing, boiler installation, and fire protection installation and servicing. Mr. Puskar can uniquely identify what is and is not practical in the “real world” of industry and manufacturing. Although a skilled engineer, Mr. Puskar's perspectives are not based on theory. Instead, his perspectives are also based on real-world projects, technology implementation, and execution, where he was directly accountable for results.

Mr. Puskar is a prolific author in the energy world. Wiley and Sons published his FUELS AND COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT SAFETY book in 2014. In addition to this, has authored more than 100 journal and magazine articles and has presented at more than 100 conferences and training workshops over the past 40 years. Mr. Puskar’s work has been published in many peer-reviewed publications and journals, including for ASME, NFPA, AEE, ASPE, and AIChE. Mr. Puskar shares his knowledge freely for the betterment of humanity and the engineering profession.