Tag: energy efficiency
California offers energy efficiency financing for multifamily
In January, the state of California and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an initiative that would allow PACE financing to...
Here comes the sun
The program allows energy consumers to buy electricity from community solar installations, built by private companies in or near their communities. Each installation would...
Back to the future: loss of power
At a time when the nation was facing a severe energy crisis, this 323,000 sq. ft. structure was a beacon of light illuminating the...
We don’t have to ditch capitalism to fight climate change
It is of course possible that the 95 percent-plus of scientists who have explored the topic and the National Scientific Academies of every major...
Powering down
The decline is due in large part to a significant decrease in electricity used by televisions and computers, according to a new report, which...
Leading beyond LEED
When the innovative foam-and-stucco structure at 803 Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn couldn't hold up to the blower door test that's a standard trial of...
Time is on my side
Multifamily buildings are the last big game on the horizon. Single-family homes, offices, and factories have been tracked and surveyed for their energy use...
Old school transformed into net-zero apartments
Finally realizing their dream, he and his wife, Barbara, stood inside one of those apartments in March watching that crew work on some of...
With lantern and with ladder
The Park Square rental complex at Arlington Street and Columbus Avenue in Bay Village has been carved out of a 1927 Renaissance Revival building. Built...
Golden bucks
Customers of California’s big utility companies will receive “climate credits,” small payments of money raised from the state’s cap-and-trade system for controlling greenhouse gas...
Breaking the breaker box
The graphs are monitoring the energy use of the tech incubator, which houses over a dozen startups focused on clean tech and infrastructure. One...
Trends to watch
That demise continues to stir debate among those who believe the mandate takes away consumer choice for old-school bulbs, which make up about half...
Obama: Energy efficiency for millions of apartments
And they plan on doing it through pressures in lending requirements. What comes of this partnership remains to be seen, but the goal is...
You can’t manage what you don’t know
Among those changes is the way a building's energy use is tracked, and subsequently adjusted to make it more green and cost-efficient. As time...
Energy efficiency, value not values
For a more current perspective on value in the controversial realm of energy efficiency, Wharton professor Howard Kunreuther, Wharton postdoctoral researcher Dena M. Gromet...