Energy Burden: How To Measure? How To Reduce?
Measuring energy burden is relatively straightforward. Figuring out how to create robust metrics for it, though– and how to address it- is much more challenging.
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MDHHS and LIHEAP: We’ll Pay For Fossil Fuels. Weatherization, Not So Much.
At an MPSC workgroup meeting this morning on Energy Waste Reduction specifically for the low to moderate income (LMI) market
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Better Utility Regulation: How We Can Get Out Of This Mess
Too much regulation restricts innovation. But too little regulation does the same, and this is what we see in the crumbling infrastructure of Michigan, where regulators are asleep at the wheel in the name of a “business-friendly regulatory” environment that, as it turns out, is neither terribly regulatory nor terribly business-friendly.
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Time-Of-Use Pricing Is Coming. Here’s How To Make Sure You’re Ready.
Time-of-use pricing is (most likely) coming to a utility near you, if it hasn’t arrived already. Here’s what you need to know.
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“Electrification Is Not Enough For Decarbonization” – Consumers Energy
A new workgroup seeks to address some questions about the future of infrastructure in a state that continues to lag in regulatory and technical innovation.
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100 Corporations Produce 71% of Carbon Emissions. But Who Buys Their Products?
LIVING IN SOUTHWEST DETROIT, A STONE’S THROW FROM THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE, I AM ACCUSTOMED to having to wipe off the
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Detroit’s Green Task Force Looks Toward Benchmarking, PACE, Energy Codes
The Energy Waste Reduction Committee of the Detroit Green Task Force met yesterday morning to talk shop for the last
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Glazed Over: Donald Trump’s Tiny Windows Conspiracy
US President Donald Trump’s claims that Democrats want to make the windows smaller in everyone’s houses were, while baseless, not the craziest thing he’s ever said. Glazing, energy, and you!
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New Client Who Dis
Handbuilt’s newest client is energy building guru Kevin McNeely, who works on energy audits and architectural energy consulting services around the Midwest.
Read moreLansing Field Trip: Michigan Public Service Commission
Today marked my quarterly pilgrimage to the great center of Mitten-power, that is, Lansing, Michigan. I go up every few
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