by Jeff Ihnen | Dec 2, 2025 | Energy Rant
Wanting to take a break from data centers, load growth, and grid stress, I went to my Google Alerts feed in search of some inspiration for this week’s topic. This week’s post was spawned by this ESG Today article, “Is Efficiency Misunderstood?” AI summarized the...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 14, 2023 | Energy Rant
A couple weeks ago, I quickly read this article, Cracking the Code – Aligned Incentives, on EnergyCentral.com. It concerns incentives for high-performance employees, but my read was about incentives for efficiency programs. It applies to that too. Myopic Focus...
by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 10, 2021 | Energy Rant
As described last week, net savings and program attribution are measures of an efficiency program’s influence on making a project happen for utility customers. There is a range of influence that energy savings has in motivating customers to do a project, and...
by Jeff Ihnen | Mar 24, 2021 | Energy Rant
Based on my victims’ feedback, I am an above-average cook, but my internal modesty says, barely. To achieve such mediocrity, all you must do is follow the instructions and pay little attention. The next step to greatness, I’ve heard, is to weigh rather than...
by Jeff Ihnen | Mar 17, 2021 | Energy Rant
“Hey Honey – our energy costs are down, so let’s have another kid.” This is the absurd logic behind studies linked to a Utility Dive post last week. The subject is the retread canard of the rebound effect, specifically the hoax [sic] that if you use less energy, you...
