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Icahn Resigned as Trump Adviser Just Days before This New Yorker Article

August 21, 2017 by Jennifer Nastu

Carl Icahn’s role as an adviser to President Trump was a conflict of interest related to rules requiring oil refiners to blend ethanol into gasoline, according to an article in The New Yorker. The article came out just days after Icahn stepped down from his unpaid advisory role. Icahn said ... Read more »

‘This Administration Bad for Environment but Good for Biz’: Energy Manager Summit Snippets

June 12, 2017March 25, 2022 by Jennifer Nastu

Editor’s Note: It’s been a week since we kicked off this year’s Environmental Leader Conference & Energy Manager Summit, and the ideas and excitement are still percolating. Energy Manager Today and Environmental Leader have published several articles based on content from our terrific speakers (links below). But in addition to ... Read more »

Dropping Out of Paris Accord May Have ‘Done Us a Favor,’ Says Unilever CEO

June 5, 2017 by Jennifer Nastu

Following President Donald Trump’s decision to quit the Paris climate agreement, the CEOs of Disney, Tesla, Apple and many others quit Trump’s business advisory council, and others continued to speak up in favor of sustainability. Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, for example, told CNBC that he has respect for the ... Read more »

ERC Price Benchmarks, Week Ending 5/19/17

May 24, 2017April 22, 2022 by James Moore

Moving to a July prompt month, Energy Research Council’s (ERC) national average benchmark price for electricity rose again last week by 0.29% to $0.0754 per kilowatt hour. The largest price movement was a decline of 1.1% in Illinois. Month-over-month, Illinois electricity prices have dropped by 2.4%; the result of a ... Read more »

Industrial Entities in Emerging Economies Adopt EMS Solutions at a Furious Rate

May 16, 2017March 25, 2022 by Jennifer Nastu

Industrial entities in emerging economies are widely adopting comprehensive energy management solutions; China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Mexico and South Africa hold significant promise for the global energy management systems market, according to Transparency Market Research’s new study, Energy Management Systems (EMS) Market Forecast 2016-2024. Industries such as iron ... Read more »

The Energy Manager’s Rapidly Changing Role: A Q&A with Billy Grayson

March 22, 2017October 8, 2019 by Alyssa Danigelis

Picture a time when a company’s buildings look less like net energy consumers and more like integrated power plants, suggests William “Billy” Grayson, principal of Bent Branch Strategies and former director of sustainability at Liberty Property Trust. That’s what Grayson believes the future will look like. Grayson will be speaking ... Read more »

The Hidden Benefits of Power Factor Correction

February 17, 2017 by Carl Weinschenk

Power Factor Correction, an often overlooked process, rivals renewables in its ability to reduce spending on electricity, according to a story at Facility Executive. Power factor correction, which potentially can cut energy use by more than 10 percent, is essentially the process of increasing the effectiveness of the electricity received. ... Read more »

California Businesses Don’t Benefit from Abundance of Electricity

February 17, 2017April 5, 2022 by Carl Weinschenk

California likely is the leading state for promoting energy efficient operations and renewable energy generation. It seems logical that this would lead, over time, to lower electric bills for its businesses. It’s logical – but wrong. In fact, ratepayers in the state are paying a lot more than those elsewhere, ... Read more »

Renovate America, Greenworks Lending Partner on C-PACE Financing

February 14, 2017 by Carl Weinschenk

Renovate America and Greenworks Lending said yesterday that they are partnering on Commercial PACE. Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is a vehicle in which property owners finance energy efficiency projects through loans from approved lenders. The loans are paid over long periods as line items on property tax bills. Commercial ... Read more »

IAC Helps Manufacturers While Providing Training

February 13, 2017 by Carl Weinschenk

The Industrial Assessment Center (IAC), which has two key goals, seems to be growing. The IAC was started by the Department of Commerce under a different name in 1976. It now is run by the Department of Energy, according to The Daily Reveille, the news site for Louisiana State University. ... Read more »

Sun Chemical, Onyx Renewables in PPA Engineered by Schneider Electric

February 10, 2017 by Carl Weinschenk

Sun Chemical has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Onyx Renewables that Schneider Electric, which structured and brokered the deal, says will save the company about $400,000. Schneider Electric’s press release says that Onyx Renewables will design, install, own and operate rooftop and carport-top photovoltaic arrays that ... Read more »

Laundry Services: A Big Opportunity to Save

February 9, 2017 by Carl Weinschenk

Energy managers in many types of buildings – hotels, prisons, colleges and universities, military installations and others – are charged with washing and drying laundry. It is a big energy drain, and cutting use even a bit positively impacts the bottom line. Today, American Laundry News posted a story about ... Read more »

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