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.
Peppy Le PUE: The Data Center Blame Game Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test
I’m taking a detour off the industrial efficiency road this week to mention a few things about soaring electricity ...
Motors & Drives: Where Efficiency Wins—and Where It Doesn’t
Industrial facilities love a good checklist: swap in premium motors, add variable frequency drives, call it ...
The Efficiency Execution Gap: Why Industry Keeps Missing the Big Wins
Industrial companies love to say energy efficiency is a priority. And technically, that’s true. But if you look at ...
The Energy Resource Hiding in Plain Sight
Written by guest blogger Liz Haworth, VP of Marketing at Michaels Energy
Jeff is out of town, which means the ...
When Cheap Power Gets Expensive: How Policy Built Today’s High-Cost Grid
To my surprise, it's been over half a year, 27 weeks to be exact, since I've written about soaring electricity ...
Programs Designed to Be Evaluated, Not Effective
I spent last week in HOT San Diego at the AESP Annual Conference. It was 20 degrees above average, hanging out in ...
The Lightning Strikes Out: The Hype Cycle Collides with the Load Curve
A year or two ago, around the time Hertz flooded the market with its fleet of electric vehicles, I heard from EV ...
AI Supremacy Meets the HVAC Systems — Deferred Maintenance Prevails
Everyone Wants to Rule the World (With AI)
Everyone wants artificial intelligence to solve a big problem. Nations ...
Audits Before Advice
R Value Costs, Climate Specificity, and Why Business Outcomes Matter
In this week's unusual Rant, I am stepping ...
A Million Btu per Hour: Notes from a Glacial Chicago Hotel Room
Comfort, Customer Satisfaction, and the Things Energy Metrics Miss
This week's post was inspired by the Midwest ...
When Antitrust Loses the Plot: Toothpaste Tubes, ESG, and Scale Blindness
Last week, I mentioned I planned to write about toothpaste, only to be overtaken by more urgent headlines around ...
Silence Exposes Grid Problems but Offers No Solutions
I was planning to write about toothpaste this week. Instead, data centers hijacked my inbox—and the headlines. ...
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