Energy Rant
Cut through the fluff with candid, expert takes on energy policy, programs, and industry trends. Written by our CEO, Jeff Ihnen, the Energy Rant is a blog that challenges assumptions, questions status quos, and delivers sharp insights with just the right dose of irreverence.
Supporting DBEs? Play the Long Game
We live in a world of instant gratification and making this quarter’s numbers, or at most, annual numbers, is the ...
Middle Actors Take the Fork, Customers Take the Change
When I stick my neck out, it’s often nice to discover others are on board to slow down the machete. I stash ...
GEBs The Final Chapter – Baby Steps!
This is my sixth and final post on Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBs), including the great interview with ...
What’s in Your (Org’s) Name?
After several weeks of hardcore grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) discussion and brutal challenges, I’m ...
Special Rant Vlog with Performance-Based Ratemaking Guru, Doug Scott
This week, we’re continuing our discussion on GEBs (Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings) with our special guest ...
Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings Part 4: Utilities Ask, Why?
This is the fourth in a series of posts on grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs). Here is a summary of the ...
Grid-Interactive Buildings Part 3: Customer Perspectives
The first in this series of posts on grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) described the intent of GEBs. The ...
Grid-Interactive Buildings Part 2 – Funny How?
Last week in the Opening Salvo, we studied the desired results of grid-interactive efficient buildings, aka GEBs. ...
Opening Salvo to Grid-Interactive Buildings
To help accommodate intermittent renewable solar and wind power generation while minimizing grid and supply-side ...
Chasms of Big Tech and Utilities
Last month, Utility Dive posted an article describing how big tech (Google, Amazon, etc.) is taking the lead for ...
Fish Fried Conversations of Efficiency
As described last week, net savings and program attribution are measures of an efficiency program's influence on ...
Socially Undesirable Net Savings
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 ...
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