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Are You on the Wrong Utility Rate? (Hint: Probably.)

Attention building owners & operators in California: do you know what energy rate each of your buildings is on? And, more importantly, are you sure those rates are the most-cost effective for each building, given their unique operations?

How clean is your clean power?

Gridium digs into the latest state level emissions data, and finds for many providers the promise of clean energy has not yet arrived.

Lighting-only efficiency projects are like strip mining...

Building owners should think twice about doing a lighting-only efficiency upgrade. Here’s why: it can take away your ability to perform a more comprehensive deep efficiency retrofit of your building. Lighting projects seem like total winners. Lighting efficiency measures have quick paybacks. New LED lights can be up to 75% more efficient than your old… Read More

Harvard study of in-person meetings has performance up 24%

“We find that certain management practices that encourage knowledge sharing between coworkers can raise long-term productivity. The Structured-Meetings treatment was particularly effective, suggesting the constraint on knowledge flows is initiation costs…”