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Your Home or Business Can Cut Power Plant Emissions
Customer demand for energy services is evolving quickly. Both residential and institutional customers increasingly demand products and services that are both “green” (i.e., environmentally friendly)…

Report Release: The Status and Promise of Advanced M&V
The innovative Nest thermostat helped to mainstream the concept of a smarter home. Now, high-resolution smart meters, numerous communicating smart thermostats, nonintrusive load monitoring, and…

Energy Independence for Exeter, UK, by 2025
Exeter City Futures, a UK-based community interest company, is working to make the Exeter City region in the South West of England energy independent…

Solar Embrace
More than a year ago, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) announced its Shine Program would focus on community-scale solar. We claimed that community-scale solar could be…

The Energy Web Foundation: Bringing Blockchain Technology to the Grid
Blockchain technology—the technology underpinning the Bitcoin virtual currency—is being discussed as one of the most potentially disruptive technologies since the Internet.