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Healthy Buildings: Improved Ventilation for Healthier (and Happier) Workers

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Oct 29, 2020 12:28:15 PM

Take a deep breath. Now, take another, but this time, pretend you’re on an airplane in coach. And again, but this time, you’re walking through a casino. Last one: imagine you’re in a meadow having a picnic. If we did a good job of sparking your imagination, you can surmise the central theme of this blog: air quality. A concern of many workers emerging from home offices making the return to their places of employment is the air quality of their offices and how ventilation could affect the spread of COVID-19. Here, we’ll dive into ways to create healthy buildings that will make them—your workforce, customers and visitors—breathe easier.

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Topics: Supermarket and Retail, Utilities, Education, Blog Topics, Heating, Occupancy, Hospitality

The Climate Pledge: Achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2040

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Sep 29, 2020 5:11:29 PM

Are You Doing Your Part? We Can Help.

Earlier this summer, we learned of The Climate Pledge after reading this blog from Amazon discussing the internet giant’s intent to reach net zero carbon by 2040, a full decade ahead of the Paris Agreement. An ambitious goal for sure, but after we stopped to consider how swiftly the company rose from being an online bookstore to the megastore and distribution center it is today, we realized that the timeframe and goal may not be too lofty of a feat after all.

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Topics: Energy Efficiency, Utilities, Education, News and Events, Carbon Accounting, Blog Topics, Behavior Change

Save Energy in Your Warehouse or Distribution Center in 4 Easy Steps

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Dec 3, 2019 10:31:20 AM

Whether you’re in the business of making or distributing widgets, raw materials, food or consumer goods, there inevitably is some heavy lifting involved. We understand the considerable planning that goes into your operational efficiency. That’s why when it comes time to evaluate ways to save energy in your warehouse or distribution center, we’d like you to leave the heavy lifting to us.

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Topics: Energy Efficiency, Energy Managed Services, Measurement and Verification, Blog Topics, Energy Cost

Simultaneous Heating & Cooling: It Happens More Than You Realize.

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Mar 11, 2013 11:21:22 AM

During building energy assessments we often find obvious, no-cost behavior changes savings: A compressor running flat-out for an idled production line. Flood lights illuminating an unused parking lot all year long. Warehouse dock doors that stay open all day. Our very technical recommendations come with a smiley face:

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Topics: Blog Topics, Refrigeration, Heating

How Soon Until We See Energy Efficiency Backed Securities?

Posted by Dalkia Solutions on Sep 26, 2011 10:26:52 PM

Three years ago, as we were developing our own energy efficiency finance program, I was struck by how few people had yet recognized the market opportunity for financing energy-efficient building upgrades through a shared-savings approach. Large ESCO performance contract firms continued to rely solely on their customers using tax-exempt bonds to pay for their projects and solar PPA firms focused, surprise, on solar. Only a handful of us were hustling after this emerging market.

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Topics: On Bill Finance, Blog Topics, Power Purchase Agreement