Field Notes
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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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 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.
15Jul2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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.”
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.
GEO Leads Effort for $25M Efficiency Retrofit Grant
The dollars will be leveraged with private investment to fund large-scale energy efficiency work in neighborhoods and commercial districts in the Denver, Boulder and Garfield County regions.
22Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
GEO Funds Northern Colorado ENERGY STAR Program
NoCO ENERGY STAR Homes is a regional program with a focus on high-performance construction for new homes — homes that perform better than conventionally built homes.
10Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
NREL Sets the Bar for Office Building Energy Use
The Research Support Facility will be a showcase for engineering net zero energy office design. “We want to take energy efficiency to Main Street,” said NREL engineer Shanti Pless. “The key is to make it a requirement and integrate energy efficiency early in the design process.”
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Historic Oxford Hotel Gets Efficiency Make-Over
The improvements have helped reduce the venerable hotel’s monthly electricity costs by 47%. Even in its earliest days, the Oxford maintained its own power plant with an advanced system of steam heating, electricity and gas lighting.
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GEO and Energy Outreach Colorado Partner
on Weatherization Improvements
The Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) has selected Energy Outreach Colorado (EOC) in a competitive solicitation for a third-party administrator to provide weatherization services for large, multi-family buildings in Colorado.
2Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
4CORE Lands Weatherizaton Contract with GEO
Four Corners Office for Resource Efficiency (4CORE) is partnering with Housing Solutions for the Southwest, NRG by Design and Southwest Conservation Corps on the $960,000 contract for service in Dolores, San Juan, Montezuma, La Plata and Archuleta Counties.
11Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Two Years Later, Greensburg is Officially Green — with NREL’s Help
With technical assistance from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, the city of Greensburg, John Deere Renewable Energy and other partners will open a wind farm generating 12.5 MW of electricity, enough to power 4,000 homes.
12May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Survey: Sizeable Number of Homeowners Plan to Use Energy Tax Credits from Stimulus
While nearly half of the homeowners surveyed plan to take advantage of the credits, almost three quarters of the respondents acknowledged they didn’t know how to apply for the federal energy efficiency tax credits.
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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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