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With Buildings and Infrastructure, It Pays to Take a Life-Cycle Perspective

April 2, 2018 by MIT Energy and Climate

With Buildings and Infrastructure, It Pays to Take a Life-Cycle Perspective

In the face of limited funding to address massive infrastructure needs, and with climate action at top of mind, it is more important than ever for engineers, designers, and policy makers to understand the full economic and environmental costs of infrastructure project decisions — and not just impacts relating to material choice or from initial construction, but the impacts of choices across the entire life cycle of a project. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Carbon and De-carbonization, Cleantech, Communications and Messaging, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, Risk Management, Storage, Sustainability, Transportation, Utilities Tagged With: building construction, building efficiency, clean energy, green energy, green infrastructure, life cycle, life cycle analysis

What Data from Building Energy Performance Policies Offers Utilities

March 23, 2018 by Institute for Market Transformation

What Data from Building Energy Performance Policies Offers Utilities

A growing number of U.S. cities are implementing building energy performance policies that require building owners to report their energy consumption, complete energy audits, or retrocommission their buildings. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Carbon and De-carbonization, Cleantech, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, News, Renewables, Storage, Sustainability, Utilities Tagged With: building data, building efficiency, data, energy data, green buildings

Top Retailers Demand Zero Carbon Building Standard

March 19, 2018 by David Thorpe

Top Retailers Demand Zero Carbon Building Standard

A group of retailers – whose members include Aviva, BT, Cemex, Ikea, Kingfisher, M&S, Nestle, Sky and Tesco – have criticised the UK government for not doing enough to improve energy efficiency in non-domestic buildings and asked for a zero carbon building standard to be set. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Carbon and De-carbonization, Cleantech, Climate, Communications and Messaging, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, News, Public Health, Sustainability, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, green business, Retailers, Zero Carbon, zero carbon buildings

Why Brokers Need to Understand the Business Case for Green Buildings

November 30, 2017 by Institute for Market Transformation

Why Brokers Need to Understand the Business Case for Green Buildings

Financing Energy Efficiency Through Mortgage Loans, a recent report from IMT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), culminates in a set of recommendations for both lenders and building owners/buyers to better factor building efficiency into mortgage loans and property condition assessments. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, News, Storage, Sustainability, Utilities Tagged With: broker, building efficiency, energy broker, green energy

Stories Behind the Rankings: These Successes Reveal Benefits of Saving Energy

November 24, 2017 by American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)

Stories Behind the Rankings: These Successes Reveal Benefits of Saving Energy

Residents and businesses across the country are saving energy and money thanks to smart state policies. Their stories help explain why some states climbed in our 2017 State Scorecard or maintained strong standings. This year for the first time, we included stories of individuals and communities in our state-specific score sheets. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Communications and Messaging, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, News, Politics & Legislation, Risk Management, Storage, Sustainability, Tech, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, energy efficiency, school, state energy, state policy

World Green Building Week and the Campaign for Net Zero Buildings

October 18, 2017 by David Thorpe

World Green Building Week and the Campaign for Net Zero Buildings

It was World Green Building Week last week, with Green Building Councils from across the world campaigning for all buildings to be “net zero” by 2050. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, Storage, Sustainability, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, energy efficiency, green buildings, net zero

Pilot Program Will Use Data to Transform the Efficiency of Chicago Buildings

September 15, 2017 by EDF Energy Exchange

Pilot Program Will Use Data to Transform the Efficiency of Chicago Buildings

Over the past few years, Chicago has established itself as a leader in energy-efficient buildings. The city’s landmark energy benchmarking program, for which properties measure and report on their energy use, has already saved Chicago over $17 million, while supporting high-paying jobs and healthier air. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, News, Politics & Legislation, Storage, Sustainability, Tech, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, chicago, energy efficiency, green energy, Green Technology, pilot program

Keeping Up the PACE in California, and Elsewhere

August 25, 2017 by Advanced Energy Perspectives

Keeping Up the PACE in California, and Elsewhere

Renovating old buildings to be more energy efficient or incorporate renewable energy is a win-win—more efficient homes and businesses, some of them generating electric power themselves, cause less strain on utilities and power generators while also saving money for consumers on their monthly bills—but the renovations often come with an upfront price tag that could take years or decades to pay back. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Environment, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, Risk Management, Sustainability, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, california, energy efficiency, property assessed clean energy (pace)

Who Invests in Energy Efficiency and Why?

August 3, 2017 by American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)

Who Invests in Energy Efficiency and Why?

This blog post is the second in a three-post series on understanding and increasing investments by businesses and individuals in energy efficiency. In the first post, we discussed current energy efficiency investments in the United States, which we estimate total about $60-115 billion per year. This number includes investments driven by policy, private market investments, and a mix of the two. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Communications and Messaging, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, News, Sustainability, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, efficiency investment, energy efficiency, energy investment, public opinion, survey

Europe Starts Work on Making Buildings Smarter

July 19, 2017 by David Thorpe

Europe Starts Work on Making Buildings Smarter

The European Commission is proposing that a voluntary scheme for rating the “smart readiness” of buildings be adopted by the end of 2019. This scheme will include the development of a smart readiness indicator, and a methodology to calculate this. Buildings are becoming micro-energy hubs, but the building sector is lagging behind in understanding the implications. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Carbon and De-carbonization, Cleantech, Communications and Messaging, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, News, Politics & Legislation, Risk Management, Storage, Sustainability, Tech, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, energy policy, eu, europe, smart buildings

Better Buildings Pave the Way for Energy Independence

July 12, 2017 by EDF Energy Exchange

Better Buildings Pave the Way for Energy Independence

American cities are home to nearly 63 percent of energy use, despite only accounting for 3.5 percent of land area.  It is estimated that these cities and their buildings will account for 87 percent of domestic energy consumption by 2030. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, Renewables, Risk Management, Storage, Sustainability, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, energy independence, urban efficiency

Large Commercial Buildings Are More Likely to Use Lighting Control Strategies

May 22, 2017 by U.S. EIA: Today in Energy

Large Commercial Buildings Are More Likely to Use Lighting Control Strategies

The most recent Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) collected new information about lighting control technologies and strategies in the United States in 2012. Compared with other investments in energy efficiency—such as upgrading heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems or replacing insulation—lighting controls are often relatively easy, accessible, and affordable changes. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Efficiency, Electricity, Electricity Grid, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, News, Risk Management, Tech, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, commercial buildings, lighting efficiency, smart lighting

State Regulators Can Play a Critical Role in Unleashing Building Energy Data

April 13, 2017 by American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)

State Regulators Can Play a Critical Role in Unleashing Building Energy Data

The 21st century has ushered in a new era of measuring personal progress. With wearable technologies, we can now collect more personal data than we ever thought possible, from heart rate and step count to standing time and sleep quality. The ability to measure what we want to manage in real time has brought new meaning to the phrase “big data.” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleantech, Efficiency, Electricity, Energy, Energy and Economy, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Finance, Fuels, Green Building, Green Business, Politics & Legislation, Storage, Sustainability, Tech, Utilities Tagged With: building efficiency, building regulation, energy data, regulation, state regulation

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