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Working Together on Next-Gen Building Energy Modeling (Video)
Reliable and consistent whole-building energy analysis is necessary to achieve increasingly aggressive performance targets in the buildings sector, and to motivate building owners to invest in energy efficiency.

A Transportation Success Story (Video)
RMI’s Project Get Ready is focused on preparing cities around the country for the arrival and growth of the electric vehicle (EV) industry. Watch Ben Holland, PGR project manager, explain more about the way PGR convenes everyone from government leaders to electrical contractors in cities around the country to tackle some of the thorny questions around EV infrastructure...

What Keeps Utilities Up at Night?
Within any given city, many well-established sectors must change to accommodate plug-ins, and diverse players must build a new system of connectivity in order to coordinate charging times, billing, consumer preferences, and other factors.

Achieving Passivhaus Standard in North America: Lessons Learned
To help mitigate climate change, the incremental approach to making homes and buildings less bad or 30% better than code is not going to work.

Reply to “The Efficiency Dilemma”
In this letter published in The New Yorker, Amory Lovins responds to David Owen’s article about energy efficiency and Jevons Paradox. This letter was published…