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Creating Better Buildings

Achieving deeper levels of energy savings will require a scaling up of investment in energy efficiency. RMI’s new practice guide on how to calculate and present value from deep energy retrofits can help drive that investment.

Caveat Investor

The electricity industry has been abuzz with talk of an impending death spiral brought on by distributed solar and, to a lesser extent, efficiency. The case is incomplete, but there is emerging evidence to suggest utility investors should proceed with caution.

Reaching the Building Efficiency Tipping Point

Our Scaling Building Efficiency Program is targeting four of the largest, most influential segments of the buildings market—major corporations, the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense, and activist cities—for deep and portfolio-wide retrofits.

eLab Accelerator Part 3: Pathways to Clean Energy

In the final installment of our eLab Accelerator blog series, we are reviewing three teams who are focused on developing strategies to understand and achieve clean energy futures.

eLab Accelerator Part 2: Evolving Utility Business Models and Regulation

In this second installment of our eLab Accelerator blog series, we are exploring how companies, organizations, states, and communities are working to evolve utility business models, rate structures, and regulatory structures so that renewable and distributed resources can be reliably and economically integrated into the energy system.