Trade Allies; Care for a Nail, Sir

Trade Allies; Care for a Nail, Sir

Would you like to hear about the founding of Michaels?  Great!  Jim Michaels, founder and namesake of the company, and Dave Waffenschmidt, current President, had started a flourishing energy efficiency business within a local architect and engineering firm amid the...
Trade Allies; Care for a Nail, Sir

Evaluators & Implementers; I Would Die 4 U

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...
Home Runs in Residential HVAC Savings

Home Runs in Residential HVAC Savings

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...
Trade Allies; Care for a Nail, Sir

Distributed Energy; Batteries and Bread Machines

The Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP) Summer Conference included interesting bookend plenary discussions for this post.  The opening plenary featured motivational speaker, Murray Banks; not to be confused with Matt Foley: “eating a steady diet of...