by Michaels Energy | Aug 12, 2025 | News
July 2025 – In April of 2025, the Global Cold Chain Foundation (GCCF) was notified of a new grant award as a part of the Danone Institute North America’s (DINA) Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Focus on Food. In partnership with DINA and the Foundation for Food and...
by Jeff Ihnen | Nov 28, 2016 | Energy Rant
This week, we continue the discussion of ASHRAE Standard 211, Standard for Commercial Building Energy Audits. For ease of consuming this post, I suggest destroying 1/900,000th of a conifer by printing last week’s post, which includes a super summary of the approach,...
by Jeff Ihnen | Dec 7, 2015 | Energy Rant
Just about every energy efficiency portfolio offers customers some sort of energy audit. They practically all feature home audits, audits with direct installation of measures, level II audits, feasibility studies and retro-commissioning studies. What are the...
by Jeff Ihnen | Dec 3, 2012 | Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant
Taking a suggestion from an anonymous rant reader [doesn’t want to get fired], I purchased and have been reading a book called Predictably Irrational. Figuring out peoples’ decision-making process is my job – to win proposals, design programs that people want, and...