by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 17, 2015 | Energy Rant
This post is brought to you by the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC), circa 19, er 2015. I moderated one session featuring four great papers and presentations concerning residential space heating and cooling. I also observed one concurrent...
by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 10, 2015 | Energy Rant
Perhaps; no doubt; probably; certainly; damn sure, the least liked aspect of my job is reviewing contracts with which the buyers sentence their contractors to unlivable conditions. Anyone watch The Donald lately describing people as “idiots” and “stupid”? The Donald...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 29, 2015 | Energy Rant
This week, I dive into something I have wanted to know more about for some time: efficiency program funding mechanisms. This post is based on a recent paper released by ACEEE, Valuing Efficiency: A Review of Lost Revenue Adjustment Mechanisms. Utilities must be...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 22, 2015 | Energy Rant
Our industry really needs to call timeout; take a look around and ask, “what the hell are we doing?” Build it [energy program] and they will come? No. Build it, and they will be alienated and give it the middle digit. As noted most recently in a post on condensing...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 15, 2015 | Energy Rant
It is mid-June, and strangely here in the northern Midwest we have experienced virtually no warm, humid weather yet this year. The weather can flip like a switch from a pattern of rain and clouds of the past several weeks to one that is hot and humid with little...
