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energy issues in the built environment

Tag: ESCO

Insured Savings

Interesting comments from Tony. Good to see this level of sophistication in the commercial upgrade market:

A few weeks ago a business consortium including Lockheed Martin and Barclays Capital announced the largest single private-sector investment to-date for commercial property energy efficiency retrofits. The business consortium, referred to as the PACE Commercial Consortium, [...]

Carbon Tax and Markets for Retrofit

My good friend Scott, and frequent commenter, pointed out that it’s been a month since my last post. I have lots of excuses for that but will bear you the boring details. Probably as he was writing to tell me that frustrating piece of information I was reading a post from MR that responded to [...]

Risk Management in EE Projects

Via EETD, this from Technology Review:
Project developers typically guarantee certain savings, some or all of which are used to pay the cost of installing and maintaining the equipment; on the assumption that customers will use less energy, the developer charges them less than they would pay the utilities. If the money [...]