Six weeks till Christmas – which means time to think about cool energy efficiency gifts for your loved ones.
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Six weeks till Christmas – which means time to think about cool energy efficiency gifts for your loved ones.
Topics: LED lighting
A few months ago we installed a backup generator for a customer in the food distribution business. Their decision to add the generator was ultimately prompted by yet another New England storm that left them without power. In the wake of hurricane Sandy many folks are wishing they had made the same decision…
Topics: back up generator
Last week I attended an EDF sponsored workshop discussing their new Investor Confidence Project (ICP). The ICP is focused on encouraging more lenders to finance the building energy efficiency market.
Topics: Deep Retrofits
Today we published our latest Enterprise LED market research, which studies trends in commercial and industrial LED lighting and profiles the top vendors. The report includes our newly developed LED Lamp and Fixture Pricing Index which tracks historical pricing for these products.
Topics: LED lighting, Enterprise LED Lighting
Every day energy, facilities, real estate and sustainability managers receive inbound voicemails from vendors emphasizing that their energy management solutions will help save energy, reduce carbon, save the world, etc….The term energy management is now so overused it has become meaningless.
Topics: Enterprise Smart Grid
Last week I participated in a day long energy efficiency finance workshop, hosted and co-produced by Bloomberg’s New Energy Finance Group and the Environmental Defense Fund. Held at Bloomberg’s hip and upbeat headquarters, it had the feel of an investor conference, although most people in the room had yet to make one….
Topics: Energy Efficiency, CESA, On Bill Finance, energy efficiency finance, PACE, performance contracting, energy services agreement
Lightfair 2009 was the coming out party for LED lighting. Lightfair 2010 turned into LEDfair, and by Lightfair 2011 LEDs had gone mainstream. As Bob, Fritz and I headed into Lightfair 2012’s exhibit hall we speculated on what we would see – and how over-the-top LED lighting might have become.
Topics: LED lighting, C&I LED lighting, commercial led lighting, LightFair, LED, Enterprise LED Lighting
Like study-period before final exams, the days preceding the release of a new Groom Energy report can be wearying, filled with Dropbox editing, graphics tweaking, re-reading text for the fourth time and a little Red Bull. The period leading up to the release of our Enterprise Smart Grid Research Report was no different.
Topics: energy monitoring, Sub-metering, Enterprise Smart Grid
Today we released our Enterprise Smart Grid research report.
Topics: energy monitoring, Sub-metering, Enterprise Smart Grid
I spent last Wednesday at the California PUC in San Francisco participating in a workshop debating the merits of California’s newly proposed policy for utility on-bill repayment (OBR). (Although being at the workshop necessitated my taking the Boston redeye that night (ugh) my spirits were lifted as I waited at SFO and watched Duke hoop’s last minute upset at UNC – but I digress…)
Topics: CESA, On Bill Finance, Energy Savings Agreement, On Bill Repayment, OBR, PACE, OBF
