Another bumpy start for Cleantech incentives in 2013

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Jan 26, 2013 2:19:59 PM

So the fiscal cliff drama has resolved itself temporarily, with both solar and wind incentives living on for another year…

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Topics: Federal Grants, Clean Energy grants

This Year’s Best Stocking Stuffer? An LED bulb.

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Nov 12, 2012 9:02:26 PM

Six weeks till Christmas – which means time to think about cool energy efficiency gifts for your loved ones.

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Topics: LED lighting

Back Up Generators – How Much Are They Worth?

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Nov 1, 2012 9:39:50 AM

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…

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Topics: back up generator

What’s a “deep” energy efficiency retrofit anyway?

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Sep 28, 2012 3:30:06 PM

 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.

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Topics: Deep Retrofits

LED Fixture Prices Fall 24% in Two Years – How Much Further Can They Go?

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Aug 8, 2012 7:35:55 PM

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.

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Topics: LED lighting, Enterprise LED Lighting

Vendors, please fill in the blank: We offer “______” Energy Management

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Jul 5, 2012 7:31:47 AM

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.

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Topics: Enterprise Smart Grid

Energy Efficiency Finance – The Closer We Get, the More Complicated it Seems…

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on May 28, 2012 11:29:35 PM

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….

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Topics: Energy Efficiency, CESA, On Bill Finance, energy efficiency finance, PACE, performance contracting, energy services agreement

LightFair 2012 – Has LED lighting supplanted everything else?

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on May 10, 2012 2:45:58 PM

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.

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Topics: LED lighting, C&I LED lighting, commercial led lighting, LightFair, LED, Enterprise LED Lighting

Post our Enterprise Smart Grid Research release: What did we learn?

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on May 7, 2012 3:13:14 PM

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.

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Topics: energy monitoring, Sub-metering, Enterprise Smart Grid

Enterprise Smart Grid Research published

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Mar 13, 2012 6:46:01 AM

Today we released our Enterprise Smart Grid research report.

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Topics: energy monitoring, Sub-metering, Enterprise Smart Grid