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.
Efficiency v Renewables; Stability v Instability
It’s about time I got back to my stack of research reports, and I have a good one this week to write about: ...
DOE Pumping Standards – Can-a-Corn
Apparently, the nauseating term “low-hanging fruit” is not even a relevant idiom. According to Priceonomics.com, ...
Cost of Saved Energy – Drop it and Give Me Twenty
I was planning to write about industrial efficiency and the crimes of opting out this week, but while searching ...
Segmentation with AESP, Featuring Mason Verger
This post contains wild ideas that sprouted during last week’s AESP National Conference in Phoenix. Specifically, ...
Deemed Savings and the Variable Frequency Drive
In recent years, there has been a push by some intervenors and program implementers to move larger and larger, and ...
Climate Change 1, Things Untold
Of fourteen categories of Rant topics, Climate Change scored a solid seventh place for subjects readers want to ...
Clean Power Plan v the World
Last week, a colleague asked about my take on climate change. This is a wide open question, and my response was ...
Big Deal Big Data – Usain Bolt v Engineer
A year ago, I opened one Rant with Smart meter. Smart meter. Smart meter. Smart meter. Smart grid. Smart grid. ...
Energy Audits – Segmenting ASHRAE’s Jello, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Just about every energy efficiency portfolio offers customers some sort of energy audit. They practically all ...
Smart Grid Segmentation – Taking on the Dumb Meter Activists
I have written several times about smart grid hype; in particular about a year ago in Deaf and Mute Smart Meter. ...
Voter Support for Efficiency = Metal to the Pedal, Thing to the Floor
It may be that I pay more attention compared to several years ago, but there seems to be a lot of churn in energy ...
Strategic Energy Management – Try Not, Do or Do Not
A couple months ago, I co-authored an AESP Strategies article with Diana Husmann from Nexant and Teri Lutz from ...
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