In a recent NY Times article, it was announced that Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the German bank, is financing the creation of a public database of several hundred retrofitted buildings in New York City and a companion report to determine the savings from such moves. I love the notion that they [...]
According to this article from the NY Times, P.G.&E. Corporation, the California utility holding company, has created a $100 million tax-equity fund to finance residential solar installations. The fund, managed by a P.G.&E. subsidiary, Pacific Energy Capital II, is the largest single solar leasing pool to date, according to the company, and marks the growing [...]
A new Cleantech Approach (CTA) research report states that lighting control technology can greatly reduce lighting energy usage from 35% – 55%. The projected energy savings in the report are due purely to the ability to dim or extinguish lights automatically when they aren’t needed. Given most estimates attribute a quarter to 40% of all [...]
On Friday, Florida’s embattled Governor Crist signed into law that state’s PACE financing bill. Now, the local jurisdictions just need to opt-in to allow for the financing to come through. If you forgot what PACE financing is, check out our earlier blog post titled, “What is PACE financing?”. A recent study from Johnson Controls estimates [...]
Johnson Controls and OxyGenz.com have recently completed a large scale survey on Generation Y workplace demands. There are already a lot of studies on the productivity boosts from green workplaces, but this new study focuses on the younger generation and their expectations of a workplace. Some of the more interesting findings about Generation Y (ages [...]
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