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.
Topics: CRC, Enterprise Carbon Accounting, United Kingdom - carbon tax, Carbon Reduction Commitment, cap and trade, GHG accounting
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
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.
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
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
