Never underestimate American’s competitive fire. Show your usage with your neighbors (in aggregate for privacy). People need benchmarks to know how they are doing. I love it. How it Works The basic principle is simple: Instead of only telling people how much energy they used (f.ex. 100 kWh in the past 30 days), you tell [...]
Here is another article on the massive flow of venture capital money into Energy Efficiency, from an Ernst & Young report. At the end of January, we had a similar post with reports from Deloitte as well as Greentech. The numbers never seem to match among the reports, but the consensus is the same: The [...]
I get asked all the time about the value of a tax deduction, and specifically, the 179D deductions. Some folks also call them EPACT (Energy Policy Act) deductions. I had a client ask today about it. To give you some background, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 enacted Section 179D of the US Tax Code, [...]
I love this paragraph from Time. I realize it is an article that is a year old, but hey, I’m recycling it. This may sound too good to be true, but the U.S. has a renewable-energy resource that is perfectly clean, remarkably cheap, surprisingly abundant and immediately available. It has astounding potential to reduce the [...]
I am a very strong proponent of “following the money.” In real estate, the old adage is “Location, Location, Location.” In energy, it should be “Efficiency, Efficiency, Efficiency.” That’s where the money is. Kevin Surace, the CEO of Serious Materials, who makes energy-saving windows and drywall certainly thinks so as he was quoted in a [...]
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