Now that Digital Lumens (DL) is out of stealth mode it makes sense for us to start covering some of our learnings with LED high wattage applications.
Beginning last year we conducted a series of DL test trials with our customers. Recently we exhibited at the IARW show as a “coming out” party, showing both the now shipping DL system and a short video from our first large installation at a yet-to-be-announced freezer cold storage facility.
Prior to our DL tests we had learned that operating managers had three general concerns about LED high wattage applications – (1) light level performance, (2) cost and (3) glare.
Digging into each….
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Topics:
Energy Efficiency,
LED lighting,
commercial led lighting,
industrial led lighting,
Digital Lumens,
cold storage
In 2006 Groom Energy engineers began testing the latest general illumination LED fixtures with our early adopter customers. Our demonstrations proved that these products were still too expensive, couldn’t produce enough foot-candles and had no track record to support their 100,000 hour operating life claims. More importantly, none of the them took advantage of what LEDs do best – intelligent control.
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Topics:
LED lighting,
commercial led lighting,
industrial led lighting,
Digital Lumens,
venture capital,
High Bay LED lighting,
Flybridge Capital,
Groom Energy,
GroomLED,
Stata Venture Partners,
Black Coral Capital
In my former life as a early stage venture capitalist I learned a traditional VC bias against investing in start ups where government subsidies were necessary to make the technology’s economic case work. Year’s later I’m scratching my head at how the VC market has thrown out this bias in cleantech investing, an example being their heavy investment in solar PV technology.
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Topics:
utility rebates,
Rebates,
Solar PV,
Federal Grants,
federal grant,
incentives,
Clean Energy grants,
Investment Tax Credit
I’m here in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton for the 26th annual NAESCO conference called Energy Efficiency, Kicks it up a Notch. Many of the attendees have been involved in the ESCO industry for a long time and yesterday’s discussions were a lot about “our time has finally come.”
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Topics:
ARRA,
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,
NAESCO,
ESCO,
energy service company,
performance contracting,
Stimulus
A few months ago one of our customers told us that they were facing a significant carbon tax for their United Kingdom based operations. With a newly implemented UK carbon taxation policy they expected to pay @ $750k for their 60+ facilities located throughout the UK. I decided it was well worth a quick trip to learn more and now after a few days of meetings here in London, I understand a bit more about this program.
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Topics:
CRC,
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
United Kingdom - carbon tax,
Carbon Reduction Commitment,
cap and trade,
GHG accounting
Yesterday we co-hosted our Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA) seminar at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt, bringing our successful Feb 25th Boston event to the Left Coast, this time with our new partner GreentechMedia. As he had done for Boston event, Paul Baier did another great job at putting together a set of speakers and topics to be discussed.
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Topics:
Enterprise Carbon Accounting,
WRI,
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant pro,
Carbon Accounting,
Copenhagen,
Carbon Disclosure Project,
GHG reporting,
CDP,
Department of Energy,
World Resource Institute,
GHG accounting
