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Water Heaters: As Sexy as a Tesla?
This article was written by Margaret McCall, a former Senior Associate at RMI. Of all the new tech emerging on the energy landscape, water…

Location, Location, Location: DERs Find a Market Opportunity in Texas Through Locational Pricing
Much has been made about the potential of improving grid reliability and supporting a new era of distributed energy resource (DER) utilization via new pricing and grid integration business models. Locational pricing has been one of the pillars of this dialogue.

Truly Reality TV: Finding the Right Time and Place for Home Energy Performance
The episode of Property Brothers: Buying + Selling, airing today on W Network in Canada, offers another example of Drew and Jonathan helping homeowners take the next step up the property ladder. What is special about this episode is the role that RMI played in working with the producers, and what we learned from this experience.

U.S. Wind Power Demand: Corporations Take the Lead
Non-utility customers accounted for 52 percent of last year’s total of over 4,000 MW of wind PPAs. Non-utility customers include some universities and city governments, but the vast majority are corporations.

First-Time Buyers Are Dominating Corporate Renewable Purchasing
First-time corporate buyers are entering the market in droves and now account for the majority of both deal announcements and contracted MW of wind and solar energy.