Las Vegas First Major City to Go 100% Renewable

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Adeline Lui, AESP Strategies The City of Las Vegas will go 100 percent renewable next year and become the first major U.S. city to do so. In this exclusive interview with their Director of Planning and Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Perrigo, he reveals how the City will achieve this target. AESP: Las Vegas would be the first … Read more

The State of Technology: Outcome-Based Energy Codes and zEPI

Two emerging code developments to targeting improved building performance Matt Lockwood, ERS, for Zondits This month, our State of Technology series focuses on energy codes. Let’s talk about two innovations in development over the last decade in energy codes: outcome-based energy codes and zEPI. Both started as dreams of energy code wonks to address the … Read more

Persistence in the Evaluation World

Max Ma, ERS, for Zondits In the utility M&V and evaluation world, persistence is generally defined as the change in expected savings relative to the baseline.[note]ERS, “Measure Life Study Prepared for Massachusetts Joint Utilities,” 2005[/note] Persistence is the little brother to the end-of–useful-life (EUL) metric. Frequently, persistence factors are built into the deemed values of … Read more

MA Energy Policies on the Move

Ryan Pollin, ERS, for Zondits The State House in Boston has been working through numerous energy proposals this spring and summer, and the impacts will soon be felt across Massachusetts. [mks_pullquote align=”left” width=”300″ size=”20″ bg_color=”#81d742″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]The Governor’s “pipeline tax” has been contended and debated from the streets to the state supreme court.[/mks_pullquote]Last month the House … Read more

EDGE M&V for Brooklyn and Queens

Isaac Wainstein and Ryan Bossis, ERS, for Zondits Con Edison has launched a nationally recognized program to use energy efficiency and customer-sited distributed energy resources to reduce a forecasted overload on its Brownsville substations. Current projections indicate that by 2018, on a peak summer evening, demand will exceed the substation capacity by up to 52 … Read more

The Landscape of EDGE M&V

Gary Epstein and Jeff Perkins, ERS, for Zondits There is wide consensus that the next generation of evaluation and M&V must deliver more value, must produce more immediate results, and must serve the need for accurately demonstrating project impacts with great certainty. Further, to allow for the widest application across multitudes of buildings, any sustainable … Read more

New York State Invests $36 Million Into Building Energy Efficiency

STATE ROUNDUP: New York puts up $36 million for energy-efficient buildings Lockport Union Sun & Journal, June 20, 2016 The state is putting up $36 million to increase the energy efficiency of commercial buildings such as office towers, universities, hospitals and retail stores. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority says the money … Read more

Stamford’s Large-Scale Energy Efficiency Plan

Stamford to launch state’s first massive energy-efficiency plan Stamford Advocate, June 14, 2016 The city will become the first in the state to launch a large-scale energy-efficiency plan that officials estimate could save as much as $1 million a year. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy joined Mayor David Martin on Tuesday at the Government Center to announce … Read more

Rhode Island Debates EE Surcharge Plan on Oil and Propane

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Surcharge to fund energy efficiency in R.I. lacking support Providence Journal, June 1, 2016 State lawmakers are debating a plan to help home heating oil and propane customers pay for energy efficiency improvements — such as new furnaces — with a surcharge on those fuels. A bill, developed by the Rhode Island Office of Energy … Read more