EFFICIENCY
Efficiency Field Notes
E-Light Brightens Arapahoe Community College
“These new LED lights utilize 45% less energy than the old fixtures,” said E Light Service Manager, Bob Kacillas. All the lights are programmed on an astronomical time clock and automatically adjust to the seasons.
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Time to Update the Energy Star Program?
The government’s Energy Star system, used to rate products and retrofitted buildings for energy efficiency, could use a fixer-upper of its own, a legislator said this week. One sticking point: the voluntary program uses relative instead of absolute ratings.
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EnergyLogic Expands Training Facility — Potential New Job Opportunities for 500 Students Per Year
The company tells Colorado Energy News its expansion at the Berthoud training facility is to meet the demand for accredited home energy auditors and raters. Up to 500 students per year will take classes in the 3,600 square-foot facility in Berthoud.
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Colorado Geo Energy Heat Pump Group Hosts Conference
The event at the Denver Marriott West in Golden, September 23-24, focuses on the current state and future of heat pump technology to heat and cool buildings. Both industry pros and newcomers to the trade are encouraged to attend.
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Colorado Firms Launch Home Energy Audit Software
EnergyLogic, Inc., a home energy rating, training and software firm, has come up with the OptiMiser software, in partnership with OptiMiser, LLC. The program is designed to make home energy audits easier, more accurate and customizable.
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Coloradoans Go for $Millions in GEO Rebates –
Many Energy-Saving Opportunities Still Available
While some categories have been depleted such as dishwashers and solar hot-water systems, you can still obtain one of 38,000 rebates for energy-saving steps such as insulation, duct sealing, energy audits and residential wind systems.
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DOE Announces $67 Million Investment for
Carbon Capture Development
Two Colorado-based companies are participating in the program: ION Engineering in Boulder and Littleton-based
ADA-ES, Inc. The projects are part of the Administration’s
goal of developing cost-effective deployment of CCS technologies within 10 years, with an objective of bringing five
to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016.
Got Build? GEO Rolls Into Summer with
High Performance Building Series
It launches with a webinar entitled Deep Energy: Major Renovations 201 focused on energy renovations for a variety of commercial building types. Presenters will illustrate the process and benefits of an energy audit, energy renovations and retrofits.
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Field Notes — E Light Energizes GEXPRO
Englewood-based E Light Electric Services recently completed a lighting retrofit for Gexpro’s Denver location, and the company’s newest division, E Light Wind and Solar also installed a new, 8.2 kW PV system on the property.
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Geo Weatherization Partners Surpass 5,000 Homes
For The Year
The program has already exceeded last year’s production by more than 1,500 homes. “We congratulate our partner agencies across Colorado for rising to the call to extend these services to more homes, more families and bring more workers into our New Energy Economy,” said GEO director Tom Plant.
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SmartRegs Gets Its Legs; Takes Some Heat
Boulder City Council began its first reading of the much-discussed SmartRegs proposal at their meeting on May 18.
In witness of an over-capacity meeting hall, Mayor Susan Osborne said it was, “the most important issue we’ll tackle this year, and the most complex.”
Clean Energy Financing Bill a Boon to Rural Counties
“Without the changes proposed in SB-100, it will be extremely difficult for Colorado’s smaller counties to offer this financing tool, denying their home and business owners access to the benefits this tool provides,” said the Governor.
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Feds Join Efficiency Push — House Approves Incentives for Home Energy Renovations
The legislation is endorsed by the National Association of Manufacturers, National Association of Home Builders, environmental groups, and a coalition of more than 1000 businesses and organizations, including the Blue Green Alliance, Dow, Home Depot, Marvin Windows and Lowe’s.
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Western Slope Updates –
San Luis Valley — Transmission Line Dispute
Garfield County — Energy Improvements District Idea
Snowmass Village — Town Council Mulls Solar Farm
Pitkin County — Energy Smart Loan Program Nears
Retailers, Contractors Get Economic Boost From
Recharge Colorado Program
The huge interest in rebates for energy efficient appliances, solar power and other energy upgrades has created an economic spark for Colorado retailers and contractors providing energy-saving services. “This program acted as a real stimulus in a time of year which is traditionally slow,”
said one Denver solar power provider.
Recapping the Recharge Colorado
Rebates Program
The site recorded more than 30,000 visits in its first day, and three days into the Recharge Colorado launch, the public had reserved more than 20,000 rebates for ENERGY STAR appliances, furnaces, hot water heaters, insulation and solar power.
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Why is Dirty Energy Still So Cheap?
The clean tech sector has experienced remarkable success in the past few years, yet there still remains one huge roadblock from mass implementation – cheap fossil fuels. Some may think this is simply a matter of free-market capitalism at work. The real truth is that petroleum and coal industries continue to receive massive subsidies from governments around the world, while renewable energy firms receive only a small fraction of that amount.
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