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Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Verification Regulations in California, Washington, and Oregon: A Regional Push for Climate Accountability
States on the U.S. West Coast have taken significant steps to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to tackle climate change. California, Washington, and Oregon—often recognized as leaders in environmental policy—have implemented mandatory GHG reporting...
How to Present Energy Projects to Investors: Why Payback Period Doesn’t Cut It
Any industry segment implementing energy efficiency measures needs to evaluate multiple project possibilities, prioritizing where to spend dollars. A large portion of an organization's budget goes to pay for energy costs, and the decisions about which projects to...
The Need for Dynamically Managed Energy Efficiency Programs
Across the United States, the benefit-cost ratio for energy efficiency programs is decreasing over time, bringing new challenges for third-party and utility program implementers. Changes in the energy landscape, as well as in the regulatory environment, significantly...
Lessons Learned: Leveraging Insight from Portfolios to Build Future Success
A successful portfolio is one that meets its goals and puts a process in place for building upon knowledge gained through this process. Gain insight for closing out your portfolio.
Innovations in Energy Efficiency: SBMWD WISE™ Savings Rewarded with more than $550k in Incentives
For water and wastewater pumping customers in California, identifying and successfully implementing energy efficiency solutions is critical to meeting aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals. The Statewide Water Infrastructure and System Efficiency™ (WISE)...
Clean Power Alliance and Lincus Partnering to Offer Building Electrification Assistance Services for Member Agencies
As a part of CPA’s directive, Lincus will help define and design pathways to electrify buildings owned and operated by member agencies.
4 Solutions to Boost Adoption of Zero Net Energy Design Goals
In the last decade, architects have had to make significant adjustments to their design toolbox, so to speak. Designers have adopted more tools grounded in virtual reality, shifting from 2D to 3D, and rethinking the ways in which...
Creating ZNE Construction Depends Upon a New Way of Thinking About Value Engineering
Affordability is already one of the greatest barriers to achieving zero-net energy (ZNE) construction but now, with forecasts indicating that nonresidential new construction spending will continue to contract through 2023, owners have more motivation than ever to...
6 Barriers Slowing Adoption of Zero Net Energy Construction
Zero net energy (ZNE) construction is a necessary step for reducing buildings’ energy impact, as well as their impact on climate change. Yet, for many architects, zero energy construction remains an elusive goal, still just out of reach.Certainly, there remain...
3 Critical Strategies for Driving Net Zero Energy Construction
Zero Net Energy (ZNE) buildings are designed with greatly reduced energy loads so that over the course of a year their energy use can be completely met through on-site renewable energy generation.To be verified as ZNE construction by a utility’s energy efficiency...