Commissioning is a process by which existing equipment is checked and verified to ensure its systems, such as heating and cooling, electricity, running water, etc. are working efficiently and as originally intended. Commissioning attempts to solve any building performance issues, effectively improving building efficiency. This article will look into the ...

The American Council for an Energy-Efficiency Economy (ACEEE) released a new report entitled Beyond Carrots for Utilities: A National Review of Performance Incentives for Energy Efficiency. The research, conducted and written by a group of energy efficiency researchers (Nowalk, Baatz, Gilleo, Kushler, Molina, and York), analyzes why utilities continue to ...

First coined by Eric Hirst and Marilyn Brown in their 1990 paper, “Closing the efficiency gap: barriers to the efficient use of energy,” the energy efficiency gap refers to the difference between the amount of energy efficiency we save vs. the amount we could actually realize. This energy paradox, one ...