by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 23, 2021 | Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]To help accommodate intermittent renewable solar and wind power generation while minimizing grid and supply-side energy costs, the Department of Energy, its national labs, and our industry are exploring possibilities to use buildings...
by Jessica Wagner | Jun 9, 2021 | The Big Why
Last month’s post focused on how to best treat future energy or carbon savings and how this decision can affect whether short-term or long-term investments are more favorable. But even more crucial to the calculation is the persistence of the savings – that is, what...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 1, 2021 | Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I’m just a mechanical systems[1] engineer but assume for a moment that I was a structural or civil engineer, and you asked me what it would take to build a bridge from Los Angeles to Honolulu. We can build anything, including that...
by Jeff Ihnen | May 11, 2021 | Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As the weeks, webinars, conferences, and workshops click by, I contemplate the barriers to decarbonization policy. Next week in our decarbonization course through AESP (register while there is still time) we will discuss policy on...
by Jeff Ihnen | May 5, 2021 | Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The more I see, the less I know, the more I like to let it go – hey oh. That would be from one of my five favorite bands, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and their hard-driving genius lead singer, Anthony Kiedis. That is what came to mind...
