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A recent Architectural Record article discusses an interesting new standard for green buildings – SERF. SERF, or Society of Environmentally Responsible Facilities, is trying to give building owners an alternative to the LEED system of rating green buildings. The goal is to allow building owners to certify their buildings as green and energy efficient in [...]
“Compared to their conventional counterparts, green buildings are more profitable, less risky, preferred by investors, pull higher rents, and have higher occupancy….” Thus begins an interesting article by Erica Gies in Forbes on findings by the Capital Markets Partnership that demonstrate green buildings really do present a better business case for their owners than their [...]
In a recent article, Jeff St. John of GigaOM outlines why LEED standards are moving quickly to allow building owners to get credit in the LEED system for participation in demand response grid relief programs. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a system of rating properties in the United States that gives building [...]
If you want to get a good feel for the practice of energy efficiency, particularly in commercial buildings, where experts say 40 percent of energy in America is consumed, do yourself a favor and read Eric Bloom’s Pike Research blog on the topic. In it, he highlights results of a recent survey of building retrofit [...]
You may have heard about the recent FERC ruling on demand response. In the ruling, FERC said that DR participants can now be paid full LMP (locational marginal price) instead of the prior payment system of LMP – G (locational marginal price minus generation costs.) This means that when a DR participant is actively shedding [...]
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