by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 10, 2021 | Energy Rant
As described last week, net savings and program attribution are measures of an efficiency program’s influence on making a project happen for utility customers. There is a range of influence that energy savings has in motivating customers to do a project, and...
by Jessica Wagner | Aug 4, 2021 | The Big Why
Sometimes in the course of evaluating energy efficiency projects, we come across projects with negative savings. In other words, participating in an energy efficiency program resulted in an increase in overall energy usage. Given the program theory of most energy...
by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 3, 2021 | Energy Rant
I’ve never been a parent to humans, but as I say to friends and companions, I was a child once, and I did have parents. Moreover, I’ve supervised and had dozens of people report up to me directly or indirectly. Plus, I love kid stories, so I may be more uh, qualified...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jul 27, 2021 | Energy Rant
Hi folks! We’re picking up from last week’s post in which we examined three vital elements for advancing technologies from successful pilots to mainstream acceptance and market penetration. They are: Makin’ money – it must be profitable from the manufacturer through...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jul 20, 2021 | Energy Rant
“We need some ideas for saving energy. Whaddya got?” Have you ever heard those lines? They are about as common as “Are we there yet? How much further?” Last week I was on a working group call on the subject of emerging technology. They didn’t call it that, but that’s...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jul 13, 2021 | Energy Rant
We are carrying the ball forward from last week’s post that delivered hoards of historical climate data. If you didn’t see it, check it out because I guaran dam T you will find things you didn’t know – like the fact that the Earth has almost the lowest concentration...
by Jessica Wagner | Jul 7, 2021 | The Big Why
As global average temperatures continue to rise due to climate change caused by humans, the amount of energy used (and potentially saved) cooling buildings will also increase. But if savings are calculated using outdated weather data that do not incorporate recent...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jul 6, 2021 | Energy Rant
The super heatwave of a couple of weeks ago in the northwest got me thinking about weather anomalies and climate change. What is really happening, as if anyone knows. This fits nicely with a paper that was published a month ago by the Institute for Energy Research...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 29, 2021 | Energy Rant
Last week we explored the mélange of combinations of energy efficiency portfolio administration, delivery, and evaluation among stakeholders, including public utilities’ commissions, utilities, for-profit and non-profit administrators, and program implementers. No two...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 22, 2021 | Energy Rant
What are the key ingredients to high-performing energy efficiency programs? That is the question that came to mind as I randomly grabbed an old edition of Public Utilities Fortnightly out of my six-inch stack of unread stuff. The article is entitled Top-Performing...
