Cost of Saved Energy – Drop it and Give Me Twenty

Cost of Saved Energy – Drop it and Give Me Twenty

I was planning to write about industrial efficiency and the crimes of opting out this week, but while searching for supporting data, I found other interesting stuff; namely the cost of saved energy by state and by year. In 2009, ACEEE published a paper, Saving Energy...
Cost of Saved Energy – Drop it and Give Me Twenty

Segmentation with AESP, Featuring Mason Verger

This post contains wild ideas that sprouted during last week’s AESP National Conference in Phoenix. Specifically, it emanates from Brad Kates’ (Opinion Dynamics) presentation on evaluation by segmentation A comment by Susan Gilbert (Apogee) Comments from Elizabeth...
Cost of Saved Energy – Drop it and Give Me Twenty

Deemed Savings and the Variable Frequency Drive

In recent years, there has been a push by some intervenors and program implementers to move larger and larger, and riskier measures from custom efficiency into prescriptive buckets.  These include air handling system replacements, control system replacements, and of...
Cost of Saved Energy – Drop it and Give Me Twenty

Climate Change 1, Things Untold

Of fourteen categories of Rant topics, Climate Change scored a solid seventh place for subjects readers want to read about. I am certain you will find information in this post that you’ve never seen before. As “settled science”, it sure is difficult to find unbiased...
Cost of Saved Energy – Drop it and Give Me Twenty

Clean Power Plan v the World

Last week, a colleague asked about my take on climate change. This is a wide open question, and my response was babbling and incoherent. Having some time to forge a coherent response, there is nothing in the technological pipeline, nor is there an existence of policy...