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Join us for a Live Chat 3/22 at 11 AM MST: The Future of Buildings and the Grid
Join us for the live chat at 11 AM MST--Market forces and well-informed policies can work together to start us down the road toward a radically more efficient and profitable U.S. building fleet. But this task is daunting.
China’s Hand Gets Slapped, Stinging U.S. Solar Industry’s Slim Margins
The leadership of the solar industry let out a collective gasp of relief Tuesday. While it seems that tariffs will be imposed on China’s exports of photovoltaic cells, at least for now they are relatively minimal. Yet it’s still a fragile time for the industry and anything that raises cost within the supply chain or to the end customer needs to be viewed as a potential threat to continued market expansion.
California’s Next Step in Energy Efficiency Legislation: Building Retrofits
Momentum is building around the nation for deep energy retrofits of buildings—which have a critical role in transforming our energy system and ending the use of fossil fuels.
A Challenge to Building Portfolio Owners
NBI and RMI are working together to create technical and best-practice solution sets for deep energy retrofits. RMI, its partners, and challenge participants will develop a replicable approach to portfolio energy management by adapting some specific strategies from previous retrofit projects.
Jevons Paradox: The Debate That Just Won’t Die
Using energy more efficiently offers an economic bonanza — not because of the benefits of stopping global warming but because saving fossil fuel is a lot cheaper than buying it.
