Conservation – Insight Sciences

The Government Open-Data Program

Posted on January 17, 2013 by timbatchelder

The Government Open-Data Program At The Root Of Energy-Efficiency Startups
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

The Green Button program has forced utilities to standardize the way they present their energy use numbers to their customers. In turn, that data has caused an explosion of apps and services to help you save energy—and money.

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UK postcodes will not be open data, government decides (information-age.com)
Do you want Open historical weather data? (cleanweb.org.uk)

Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs

Posted on October 22, 2012 by timbatchelder

Bensonwood Launches Unity Homes Line of Energy-Efficient Prefabs
Bridgette Meinhold, inhabitat.com

Bensonwood’s Unity Homes features four distinct home styles that are 2 to 4 bedrooms and range in size from 1,113 to 2,452 sq ft. The home styles are called the Tradd (a classic Tall Cape), Xyla (American Bungalow), Värm (Swedish…

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Sunmodo Partners with Method Homes on Modern and Sustainable Paradigm Series Prefab Home Prototype (prweb.com)
Sunmodo Partners with Method Homes on Modern and Sustainable Paradigm Series Prefab Home Prototype (virtual-strategy.com)
Prefab modular story additions: an overview of leading suppliers (qualitysmith.com)
Blu Homes selling prefab houses in Hawaii (sustainablebusinessoregon.com)
Prefab Fishers Island House Steps Up the Modern Modular to Luxury Vacation Living (jetsongreen.com)
Inhabitat Tours Blu Homes’ First Prefab Breezehouse on America’s East Coast (PHOTOS) (inhabitat.com)
Blu Homes Brings Prefab Dwellings To Hawaii (earthtechling.com)
miniHome by Altius Architecture to be Featured at Modernism Week in Palm Springs, CA February 15th-24th, 2013 (virtual-strategy.com)

BU Executive Leadership Center: Leading Clean Energy Ventures

Posted on May 29, 2011 by timbatchelder

English: Citizens for Clean Energy Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Nice new center that will work to build clean energy ventures.

Executive Leadership Center: Leading Clean Energy Ventures.

United States Aims To Win Clean Energy Race (earthtechling.com)
The New Sustainable Energy Factbook: A Strong Case for Consistent Policy (thinkprogress.org)
Department of Defense: Clean Energy Tied to National Security (climateandsecurity.org)
Greenpeace report urges 100% renewable energy (radionz.co.nz)
Los Angeles to Invest in Clean Energy (sierraclub.typepad.com)
The Daily Startup: Hudson Clean Energy Halts Fundraise for Fund Targeting $1.5B (blogs.wsj.com)
Spring Forward into Green Apartment Living – Rent.com | The Shared Wall (rent.com)

EnerNOC Energy management solutions for demand response, energy efficiency, energy procurement, & carbon management

Posted on May 17, 2011 by timbatchelder

EnerNOC – Energy management solutions for demand response, energy efficiency, energy procurement, & carbon management.

EnerNOC (NASDAQ: ENOC) looks like a pretty solid venture into the new world of combining IT efficiencies with clean, renewable energy. According to their site they are transforming the way the world uses energy. They help commercial, institutional, and industrial organizations use energy more intelligently, pay less for it, and generate cash flow that benefits the bottom line through our complete suite of technology-enabled energy management solutions. Only time will tell how they make out in a world still dominated by Big Oil.

EnerNOC (ENOC) Enters Partnership with Analytics Company Numenta (streetinsider.com)
Palm creator’s brain-mimicking software helps manage the smart grid (gigaom.com)
2012 Top Trends in Demand Response (greentechmedia.com)
EnerNOC stock up 21% on EPA rule revisions (bizjournals.com)
Numenta’s Brain-Inspired Software Adds Smarts to the Grid (technologyreview.com)
Energy Efficiency: Big Deals and New Ideas (cleantechies.com)
KiWi Power’s Play for Demand Response in the UK (greentechmedia.com)
Businesses invited to generate extra income in energy purchasing market (prweb.com)
Tackling the energy challenge: Renewable energy and energy efficiency are key themes (prweb.com)
Power plants in nine Northeast states to cut emissions (bizjournals.com)

Home energy efficiency audits and solutions for Massachusetts (MA) and New England: Next Step Living Inc.

Posted on May 9, 2011 by timbatchelder

Ted Wolff's home is a 55-year-old bungalo in E... — Ted Wolff’s home is a 55-year-old bungalo in Edmonton – the perfect candidate for a home energy audit (Photo credit: Green Energy Futures)

I’ve used these guys and they are amazing. You can get a full home energy audit and insulation and other improvements for free because you pay for it each month in your utility bill.R ecommended on Boston Globe. They use pro level TREAT software

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