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Accelerating Renewables in the Fortune 500
Last week, RMI’s program to significantly scale the commitment by Fortune 500 companies to source renewable energy was chosen as one of six winners at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit’s Finance for Resilience (“FiRe”) event.
Google Hangout Video: Buildings, Climate, and Our Energy Future
Watch David Allen, executive vice president of McKinstry and RMI Trustee, as well as RMI principal Victor Olgyay and manager Coreina Chan discuss buildings and energy efficiency.
The Urgent Need for Innovative Business Models
Our recent report discussed not only a base case scenario but also several more aggressive scenarios. Evidence from the marketplace suggests that our aggressive scenarios may be tracking reality more closely.
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.
