Today Groom Energy published our newly updated ECA research report, 2010 Enterprise Carbon Accounting, which also included our selections for the market’s 2010 ECA Emerging Leaders.
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Today Groom Energy published our newly updated ECA research report, 2010 Enterprise Carbon Accounting, which also included our selections for the market’s 2010 ECA Emerging Leaders.
Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), EPA Climate Leaders, EPA's Climate Leaders, Carbon Accounting, ECA Emerging Leaders, ECA, GHG accounting
In the 1967 movie The Graduate, 21 year old Ben Braddock (aka Dustin Hoffman) received a famous bit of advice – “there is a great future in plastics.” The line has lived on since, like an insider stock trading joke – however, VC’s would call the character who delivered this line “a master of the obvious.” If plastics would be a big market, how would Hoffman have chosen the application area or the start up company that would win?
Topics: nuclear power, Hara, Silver Spring Networks, solyndra, magnetics, Combined Heat & Power, new cleantech markets, 2010 Cleantech trends, SunRun, Solar Power Partners, waste heat recovery
During our 2010 business planning we’ve been speculating on trends that may affect our corporate customers (positively or negatively) in the coming 12 months. In 2009 Groom Energy delivered projects in 25 states and Puerto Rico. What’s stunning is how much time we spent confirming the incentives available in these states, through utilities, regional ISO’s and Clean Energy trusts. 2010 promises to introduce even great complexity to this already challenging game – in this regard here are four areas we think are worth watching:
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Solar PV, carbon tax, Copenhagen, energy efficiency trends for 2010, cap and trade, 2010 Cleantech trends, Cap N Trade, Investment Tax Credit
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.
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.”
Topics: ARRA, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, NAESCO, ESCO, energy service company, performance contracting, Stimulus
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
