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 23, 2015 | Energy Rant
This article, Americans could pay more for clean energy. But will they really?, from Utility Dive reminds me of my own life experiences with squirrelly people. They talk a good game, but where is the action? It also reminds me of the folly in precise net-to-gross,...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 1, 2010 | Energy Rant
It’s been about a month since I prognosticated and reflected on the BP disaster in the golf. Let’s see how things have unfolded. My predictions: Political food fight Underestimated disaster Lack of “what if” on BPs part Where is the outrage? First, I said...
by Jeff Ihnen | Feb 3, 2010 | Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant
There is a running joke in our business that electrical engineers don’t know anything about energy efficiency. It is only a joke. One of the sharpest energy guys I have interviewed was a physics major who started on the ground floor of an energy efficiency...