by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 28, 2015 | Energy Rant
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...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 20, 2015 | Energy Rant
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...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 14, 2015 | Energy Rant
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...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 8, 2015 | Energy Rant
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...
by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 31, 2015 | Energy Rant
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...