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Implementing an ‘asset drawdown strategy’ for site decarbonization

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The trend toward electrification is being accelerated by upcoming Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements for large publicly traded companies as well as by the ongoing greening of the grid. The green power market, a subset of the larger electricity market in the U.S.,

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M&V, MBCx, WTF: Building Performance Monitoring as a Means to Achieve Decarbonization Goals

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In the built environment, quality assurance and control processes like measurement and verification (M&V) and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) require real-time, accurate data and provide insights that are foundational to achieving zero carbon targets.

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AEE WEST 2023: Building Performance Monitoring

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In the built environment, quality assurance and control processes like measurement and verification (M&V) and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx) require real-time, accurate data and provide insights that are foundational to achieving zero carbon targets.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

Green buildings generate large quantities of data. In an age when many have opinions about Edward Snowden’s disclosures, foreign state sponsored hacking, and Uber’s massive customer data hack, most people have not considered matters of data protection from their real estate, green building or otherwise. Others collect building data.

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LEED Commercial Interiors can Save the Planet

Green Building Law Update

LEED Commercial Interiors projects present the best single opportunity for greening buildings. Green Building Council’s LEED (the ubiquitous acronym for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), the most widely used green building rating system in the world, less than 1% of commercial buildings in the U.S.

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FTC Regulates What You can Say about Your Solar Panels

Green Building Law Update

The Federal Trade Commissions has prescribed that such would be deceptive. That guidance from the FTC is not new, but as both onsite and offsite renewable energy has become a national holy grail, increasingly businesses are communicating to others about their green power, including as part of ESG disclosures.

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Danos Selects Port Of Iberia, LA For New Manufacturing Facility

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The announcement accompanies the company’s approval of a 40-acre lease for the project by the port’s board of commissioners, with Danos beginning construction on a facility in the fourth quarter of 2014. Danos has announced the company’s selection of the Port of Iberia for a new $23.2