Buildings
Residential Energy+ and Transparency: Making value visible for home energy performance
Imagine you’re a prospective homebuyer. Knowing that a home purchase may be the largest expenditure you make in your lifetime, you aspire to make a sound financial decision. So you look into utility costs to compare the monthly financial outlook for different properties. However, you soon discover that this information…
2015 Energy Exchange: Taking Energy Retrofits Further with the Federal Government
Federal agencies are coming under increasing pressure to pursue—and seeing increasing benefit from—deep savings via energy retrofits. This promises an exciting energy future but presents a challenge for the government given limited appropriated funds and personnel.
Building Buy-In for American Embassies: U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua
In 2014, Lockheed Martin completed an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) at the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua that will achieve a 54 percent energy reduction across nine buildings. An additional project phase currently in development will build toward net-zero energy use.
Residential Energy+: Capturing the Primetime Opportunity for Energy- performance Improvements In U.S. Homes
The market opportunity for residential energy upgrades—the combination of measures to improve energy performance in homes—is substantial, amounting to roughly $150 billion in the United States alone. Americans are also less satisfied with the energy performance of their homes compared to any other criterion, including affordability, privacy, safety,…
Excessive AC is a Hot Topic in the U.S.
A recent New York Times article, “Enduring Summer’s Deep Freeze,” described a scenario we’re unfortunately all to familiar with in the summer: over-air-conditioned buildings. While a blast of cold air may provide welcomed relief from a triple-digit-temperature day as you walk into a convenience store, many office workers can…
