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This Year’s Best Stocking Stuffer? An LED bulb.
Six weeks till Christmas – which means time to think about cool energy efficiency gifts for your loved ones. Last year, if you had stuffed family’s stockings with the latest LED light bulbs, you would...
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Another bumpy start for Cleantech incentives in 2013
So the fiscal cliff drama has resolved itself temporarily, with both solar and wind incentives living on for another year… In the case of wind, Congress even enhanced the incentive, making the...
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Analysis: Superbowl Power Outage Shines a Bad Light On HID Lighting
If you weren’t one of last night’s 100+ million Superbowl viewers, by now you’ve probably heard that a stadium wide power outage stalled the game for 34 minutes. Was it a conspiracy by CBS to sell more...
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Need “Guaranteed” Energy Savings? You Just Don’t Trust Me.
Over the last year we’ve participated in an increasing number of interviews, conferences and panels discussing the energy-efficiency finance market, including commercial PACE and on-bill repayment...
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Simultaneous Heating & Cooling: It Happens More Than You Realize.
During building energy assessments we often find obvious, no-cost behavior changes savings: A compressor running flat-out for an idled production line. Flood lights illuminating an unused parking...
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Is It Really Unfair For US Cities To Require Building Energy Benchmarking?
Harvard economist Robert Stavins recently published a study assessing the impact when US cities require their real estate owners to perform periodic energy analysis on their buildings. As Boston...
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LightFair 2013: LED Lighting Is Warm, Smart and Looks Like What You Know
As we do each spring, this week a team of Groom Energy engineers made the pilgrimage to Lightfair in search of “the next big thing” in lighting. We went to training sessions, walked the exhibit floor...
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Making Money While Feeling Good about Buying “Green” Stocks – If only it were...
A few weeks ago one of our thoughtful engineers sent me a note wondering aloud about the correlation of sustainability-minded companies to above average stock price performance. Like others with an...
View ArticlePACE Financing – Energy Efficiency Comes to Triple-Net Tenants
This week I attended a USGBC hosted discussion on PACE financing held in downtown Boston. Based just on Massachusetts Senator Brian Joyce’s opening remarks attendees got the clear impression that PACE...
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Energy Efficiency Ideas for 2014? Rate escalation, RTUs and Drones
Last week we had our year-end team meeting, reviewing 2013 and discussing our draft 2014 business plans. We brainstormed about energy efficiency market trends and came up with three things to watch...
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R.I.P. EPAct, December 31, 2013
Like for many businesses, end of year is a busy time at Groom Energy. Our engineering team is scrambling to satisfy utilities’ requirements, our back office is beginning year-end closing and our...
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In 2014 Energy Security Takes on a Different Meaning
During World War II energy security meant access to oil for our fighting troops. Years later the 1970′s oil crisis highlighted our supply risk with the Middle East. Post September 11th, with terrorism...
View ArticleEnergy Efficiency Finance – The Market’s Developing – But More Slowly than Solar
Last week I attended EDF/Citibank’s 3rd Energy Efficiency Finance conference in NYC. Since their inaugural event a few years ago this conference has always provided a good gauge on the market’s rate...
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Industrial Efficiency Upgrade: “On Demand” Compressed Air
On a recent plant visit our engineers followed a rumbling noise from a backroom to discover a large air compressor running flat out. The 300 horsepower (HP) system was pushing 100psi air to a set of...
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Our LightFair 2014 LED Scavenger Hunt
This year we flew the whole Groom Energy field engineering team to Las Vegas for LightFair, the 25th annual lighting industry show. While Vegas is a fun location for our team meeting, our real plan...
View ArticleGroom Energy Makes The Inc. 5000 For Second Consecutive Year
Today, Inc. Magazine released its 5000 Fastest Growing Companies and for our second consecutive year Groom Energy was included in this group. As one of our corporate objectives is to deliver market...
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Deflategate – Document Your Baseline
Both Juno and Deflategate hit Greater Boston hard this past week. Fortunately we’ve dug ourselves out of Juno – but we’re still buried in the Patriots’ mess. Heading into Super Bowl weekend sports...
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Industrial Steam Efficiency – Think Really Hot Compressed Air
Steam has long been an efficient way for manufacturing plants to deliver predictable, even heating to their production lines. Typically our customers use medium pressure steam in food processing, as...
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The New World – Using Toilet Water to Wash Your Hands? Ew.
Groom Energy’s Fenway outing Last week our annual Red Sox outing came close to being washed out. The first pitch was thrown with threatening clouds over Fenway, while our iPhones lit up with tornado...
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Our Triple Crown – Groom Energy Makes Inc. 5000 For Third Consecutive Year
Last week our team was proud to see Groom Energy’s name again included on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list, this for our third year in a row. A decade ago we started our company not knowing...
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