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.
Thermal Storage for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings
Aside from efficiency being a core component of my thermos-fluids courses in engineering school, phase changes ...
Lithium-Ion Batteries for Commercial Buildings – Pass the Schnapps
The batteries are coming! Maybe. I recently participated in an EPA-sponsored webinar to explore the results of a ...
Byrds, Dogs, Burning Hair, and Restless Anticipation
Distributed, independent, economical, efficient, reliable, resilient, flexible, adaptable, technical, clean, ...
Innovative Electricity Storage Crushes Batteries; Death Sentence for Duck
I’m not in the electricity storage business, but I can recognize lousy ideas when I see them. Grid-scale battery ...
Impact Evaluation, Bull Riding, Cookies
I've been doing a lot of program impact evaluation for the last few months. That comes with pluses and minuses. ...
Get People into Electric Vehicles Through the Zone of Acceptance
A few weeks ago, I observed a webinar [1]sponsored by the Advanced Energy Economy to help me triangulate what the ...
Electric Vehicle (EV) Sales Swoon – Easy Remedies
The electric car (or vehicle / EV) may be the most captivating technology of my career. I panned EVs ten years ago ...
Grid Modernization Risk and Protest
God, it’s great to be back writing again. On that note, here is a quote, “There’s an old saying: Everyone wants to ...
Inch or Mile? Indispensable Thumbs Guide Impact Evaluation
Hi. How’re you? Jeff Ihnen here. I’m back and almost live. I’ve been away on several temporary assignments that ...
Natural Gas Savings II – I will Huff(!) aanndd Puff(!) and Not Blowdown!
Two weeks ago, in Natural Gas Savings – Traps and H Vacs we looked at some basic natural-gas-saving measures. The ...
Natural Gas Savings, Traps, and H Vacs
I flipped open AESP’s[1] annual magazine to pick up a topic for this week. I chose the last article on natural gas ...
Strategic Energy Management is Elvis
You’ve been there – on the phone trying to get some help from a car dealership, appliance store, online retailer. ...
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