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 »
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 »
EAG working on WAB brewery PACE project
Ferndale’s Woodward Avenue Brewers (WAB) is looking to create a new brewery and distillery in another building it owns in Ferndale and signed a contract with The Energy Alliance Group of Michigan and some of its alliance partners to begin work on the project. EAG of Michigan, S3 Architecture and ... 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 »
Attend PACE presentation Sept. 9 in Grand Rapids
Learn about Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing at a free panel discussion, “Keeping PACE with Energy Efficiency in Michigan,” Wednesday, Sept. 9 from 3:30-5 p.m. at the Wisner-Bottrall Applied Technology Center, Grand Rapids Community College, 143 Bostwick Ave NE, Grand ... 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 »
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 »
What’s Stopping You from Upgrading Your Facility?
“We’re in desperate need of a new roof, windows, lighting and modern HVAC!” Building owner upon learning about PACE Daylight was shining onto the floor through holes in the walls, roof and windows. Machine operators struggled to work in poorly lit work areas because lighting fixtures were mounted ... Read More »
Why Finance Teams Reject Energy Efficiency Projects
“Without a better option, 9 out of 10 commercial clients will choose saving $15,000 in upfront cost and give up $1.1 million in long term energy savings!” Scott Ringlein Just last week the CFO of a large company was presented with an energy efficiency proposal comparing the cost and savings of LED ... Read More »
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