On Thursday I participated on a panel at the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium Conference in Burlington, VT. Our panel hosted a discussion about how universities and colleges (650+ of whom have signed the Presidential Climate Commitment (PCC)) should consider financing their efforts to become carbon neutral.
Topics: EPA Climate Leaders, EPA's Climate Leaders, Carbon Accounting, carbon neutral, Presidential Climate Commitment, performance contract, Cap N Trade, PCC
So first off apologies that I’ve been remiss in updating our blog the last few months – it’s Columbus Day weekend and I’m finally catching up….
Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Carbon Accounting, sustainability, Wal-Mart Sustainability Index, Cap N Trade, greening the supply chain
Not long ago we were all adjusting to an extraordinary increase in the price of a gallon of gas. As prices accelerated economists speculated on how devastating it could be to our economy if it continued…
Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, energy prices, carbon tax, Carbon Accounting, cap and trade, kWh prices, Cap N Trade
When considering a new roof-mounted commercial solar project our engineers need to quickly address key financial questions such as “in which state is your facility? (ie. is there a strong state rebate) and “will you be buying or financing it?” (ie. solar PV still sits outside normal corporate ROI hurdles). If both these answers are affirmative the next question we focus on is the age and type of the existing roof.
Topics: Solar PV, solyndra, commercial solar pv, commercial solar thermal, Investment Tax Credit, Solar Thermal DHW, Renewable Energy
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technology is not new – it’s been applied by utilities going back to the days of Thomas Edison. At a utility’s scale it makes so much sense to recapture huge waste heat loads generated during electricity production and apply this energy to a system like a district steam loop for heating within a campus or city.
Topics: CHP, Combined Heat & Power, miniCHP, Combined Heat and Power, Cogen
We’ve now been doing EPAct tax deduction measurement, verification, and certification for our clients for a number of years. This initiative provides a huge incentive, $1.80/sq ft for Lighting, HVAC, or Building Envelope upgrades that qualify. Although Lighting is the most straightforward component, as it does not require facility modeling software to be run, there are significant opportunities to engage in multiple technology upgrades to maximize incentives. What we are learning is how few projects actually take advantage of the lucrative EPAct 2005 tax deduction as well as other incentives.
Topics: EPAct2005, ODR, EPAct, White Tags, EPAct 2005, Other Demand Resources, Demand Response
Groom Energy hosted a webinar on May 21st entitled “Trends and Best Practices using LED light sources in Commercial, Industrial and Outdoor applications.” This event was driven from the many conversations, questions and engagements we have had with our commercial and industrial customers, like, “are LED’s the answer for my industrial application?” “How soon until LEDs will be competitive with fluorescent light sources?” ” Which applications have been successful and which have not, and why?”….. we attempted to answer a few of these questions using this broad forum and maybe to provide clarity to some of the claims from providers.
Topics: Energy Efficiency, LED lighting, commercial led lighting, LED fixtures, industrial led lighting, LED
Register here for our webinar on LED Lighting presented by Groom Energy and Greentech Media!
Topics: LED lighting, commercial led lighting, industrial led lighting, LED, LED fixture, Lighting
Between meetings with a few Groom Energy customers and partners, Bob, Fritz and I had the chance to walk the Javits Center/NYC for Lightfair the last few days. Lightfair is the US’s annual lighting show which hosts loads of lighting designers, architects, vendors, engineers and folks looking for free trinkets – the show alternates between NYC and Las Vegas each May so this year our commute from Boston and Chicago was a little easier. A couple thoughts and observations…..
Topics: LED lighting, Lightfair 2009, commercial led lighting, CREE, LightFair, induction lighting, industrial led lighting
So for the last few years we’ve been hustling to build our energy services company, delivering both renewable and energy efficiency projects across 25+ states for some great customers like Budweiser, Kellogg’s, Raytheon and Thermo Scientific.
Topics: groom energy blog, Groom Energy blog theme
