September 2015

Having seen several interesting emails form ACEEE come through during my uber busy week, one of the first things I did as I sat down to pound out this blog Saturday was to take a look and see what they were all about.  This one discussing the virtues of the Clean Power Plan for manufacturers caught my eye.  That led to many resources for combined heat and power, which of course can be a great tool for fuel efficiency and GHG reductions.  That reminded me of this excellent evaluation paper reporting the findings of combined heat and power (CHP) installations. …

I’m not your lover.  I’m not your friend.  I am something you will never comprehend.  Beeeeewwww.  I would die 4 U. The wonderful energy efficiency industry in which we all (or most of us) work features program administrators/implementers and evaluators.  For a given portfolio, you may either implement programs or support these efforts, or you may evaluate how well the program is working in regard to impacts (savings), accuracy, customer satisfaction, and a slew of other things.  In no-man’s land, or the DMZ, there exists the incredibly squishy things like potential studies and market effects studies.Any of the couple dozen…

When talking about energy efficiency, one needs to be careful to not spend too much time discussing California – because people not from California DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT!  (yes, they shout)  However, the rest of the nation can use lessons learned from bleeding edge policy, and even research, in California. Whenever I visit California I think, “What else does this state have for EE opportunities?  They have been running aggressive programs for eons.  Haven’t they done everything yet?” Heck no.  They suffer the same widget focused, human boondoggled programming the rest of us have.  What do I…