“If you can show us how LEDs create an advantage in the total cost of ownership over fluorescent lights, we’ll choose the LED’s!” A school system in Chicago was in the process of deciding between fluorescent or LED lighting. One technology had a lower price while the other would cost less to ... Read More »
Commercial Real Estate Investment Strategy – PACE Refinancing
The engineer I was sitting next to at the seminar leaned over to me and asked “you can do that?” I assured him it was possible and he whispered back, “I need to know about that”, before he turned to listen to the remainder of the story. We were attending the presentation Keeping PACE with Energy ... Read More »
Production Problem Launches Newest PACE Project
“Houston we have a problem” must have been the mindset of the VP of finance when he requested a “can we meet right now” meeting with our CEO Scott Ringlein. A major component in the company’s production line had broken down and what was formerly an automated process was now being done by hand. To ... Read More »
Old Industrial Site Transforms into Energy Efficient Brewery
When Google announces a one billion dollar investment in energy efficiency initiatives it confirms a growing trend but it’s hardly big news. To some degree it’s what’s expected of cutting edge companies with extremely deep pockets and vast human resources. It’s also what most of the other large ... Read More »
Company Growth Creates Expensive Energy Deadline
It’s fascinating to watch energy efficiency projects evolve and really understand the factors that initiate them. Quite often energy efficiency is never even on the corporate radar. Energy efficiency is often an unexpected side effect of a desire to dramatically reduce costs! A project that EAG ... Read More »
More Ways to Save Energy Than Just Lighting
“Customers are figuring out that they can buy fewer electrons, use them more productively, and produce more of their own, and it’s a good idea to sell customers what they want before someone else does.” Armory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute A client recently told our CEO “we have lots of people ... Read More »
PACE – When Green Becomes an Economic Development Program
“These investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy will also be a net new source of job opportunities. More specifically, we find that new investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy will generate more jobs for a given amount of spending than maintaining or expanding each ... Read More »
A Sneak Peak at Where the Michigan PACE Market is Going
By Andy Levin EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a guest blog post first published by Andy Levin, President, Lean & Green Michigan, Michigan's Statewide Clean Energy Financing Marketplace. This is a moment of tremendous energy - pun intended. We are literally watching a whole new financing ... Read More »
The Unintended Cost of Cheap Lighting
I frequent many forums while researching trends in energy efficiency and I came across two comments today that merit an expanded discussion. The comments represent key factors that are influencing energy efficiency renovations and upgrades. The first was a comment by Gary Reid recognizing the ... Read More »
On PACE for an Energy Efficient Future
“If we aggressively pursue these efficiency opportunities, we can roughly double the rate of efficiency improvement in the next 35 years relative to the past 35 and reduce 2050 energy use to half of current forecasts. To do this we need to take our efforts to promote energy efficiency to a new ... Read More »
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