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.
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 ...
Strategic Energy Management or Strategic Anger Management – Which is Right for You?
I have written about, and formally discussed, strategic energy management (SEM) so much I was sure I already wrote ...
Utility Scale vs Small Distributed Generation – Protection by Savage Suffolks
The June issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly (PUF) featured a supplemental, special report in collaboration with ...
Building Energy Models – Less Useful Than You Think
The convergence of several issues, and AESP’s Summer Conference, Technology – The Great Game Changer, gave me no ...
Betting with Deregulation – A Risky Proposition
Energy is a commodity, and like all commodities, it is wise to hedge risk; not go the other way and place bets. ...
Performance Contracting – Getting it Right; Avoiding #1 Matches
Per the Energy Services Coalition, energy service companies (ESCOs) that deliver energy savings performance ...
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