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.
Grid Power Generation – Stories Untold
Most of you reading this owe your lives to the phenomenon described in this post. Therefore, it is worth ...
Groupthink and the Yes Man
When this post launches, I will be sitting in a critical thinking course as part of AESP’s National Conference. As ...
Investing in Utilities
Most readers have likely seen the business triangle: cheap, fast, good [or accurate]; pick two. My first emotional ...
Behavioral Economics; A Quiz
Expressions Hair Design versus Schneiderman. That may sound like a softball or bowling league matchup, but it is ...
Things You Need to Know Re Electric Vehicles
Last week I wrote about understanding the customer and knowing what they want, whether the customer is the ...
And the 2017 Oscar Goes to… AESP!
Happy New Year! I am launching 2017 with this positive, upbeat Rant (my apologies to all my Oscar the Grouch ...
Distributed Energy Resources – Messing with Near Perfection
A couple years ago at an AESP conference, we had a fascinating speaker and topic. It was one of those that had me ...
Energy Audits and Complication Proclivity Syndrome
This week, we continue the discussion of ASHRAE Standard 211, Standard for Commercial Building Energy Audits. For ...
Benchmarking Clowns
It’s Halloween. Hundreds of thousands of people have to figure out a different costume because a clown plague has ...
Automated M&V – In Your Dreams
Last week, we explored the state of EM&V 2.0 and its considerable, to say the least, constraints. This week, ...
Evaluation, Measurement and Verification 2.0; A Whale Bus or an Airbus?
Evaluation, Measurement and Verification 2.0, or EM&V 2.0, is a nerdy term coined in 2014, according to this ...
Commercial Code Compliance and New Construction Program Failures
Earlier this year, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Commercial Building Energy Consumption ...
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