Buildings
Leveraging the Power of Data to Reduce the Home Energy Burden
RMI’s Residential Energy+ team knows that one key to changing markets is by making the right information available to consumers. Energy costs are an important part of home ownership, yet most people have no easy way to estimate them. Nor do they have any idea what energy upgrades might be…
Three Top Trends Driving Green Lease Leaders
This summer, the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance announced the new class of Green Lease Leaders, a designation that recognizes companies that have successfully modernized their lease language to include energy efficiency, and encourage landlord-tenant collaboration around sustainability goals. Rocky…
Beyond Energy Efficiency—Using the Power of Data to Find the Cleanest Hours of the Day
This blog, which details Microsoft’s exciting partnership with RMI’s new subsidiary, WattTime, originally appeared on Microsoft Green Blog. The author, Microsoft Chief Environmental Strategist Rob Bernard, says, “Microsoft has partnered with WattTime to give power users the freedom to choose when and…
Do You Really Know Where Your Electricity Is Coming From?
Four years ago, I was part of a group of graduate students from UC Berkeley and software engineers from Google and Climate Corporation who met at a hackathon. We unexpectedly discovered that by pooling our combined skills, we could solve a problem that hadn’t been cracked. For the first time,…
Next-Generation Controls: The Missing Link of High-Performing Buildings
With many exciting advances in data analytics, machine learning, grid integration, user interaction, and renewable energy technologies entering the buildings industry, it is easy to get caught up in the vision and potential of high-performance buildings. The unfortunate reality is that many buildings designed to high-performance standards struggle to deliver…
