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Lightfair 2009 was the coming out party for LED lighting. Lightfair 2010 turned into LEDfair, and by Lightfair 2011 LEDs had gone mainstream. As Bob, Fritz and I headed into Lightfair 2012′s exhibit hall we speculated on what we would see – and how over-the-top LED lighting might have become. We were not disappointed – [...] Read more »
Like study-period before final exams, the days preceding the release of a new Groom Energy report can be wearying, filled with Dropbox editing, graphics tweaking, re-reading text for the fourth time and a little Red Bull. The period leading up to the release of our Enterprise Smart Grid Research Report was no different. And as usual, the flurry [...] Read more »
A longtime leader in energy and sustainability, Genzyme, reduced its energy spending and emissions considerably in 2011. This is a major accomplishment for any organization, and especially for a large, complex multinational. Sustainability and energy program leaders could learn much from this impressive program at Genzyme. For those unfamiliar with Genzyme, it is one of [...] Read more »
Walmart is poised to transform the sustainability and retailing world — again — with a significant expansion of its highly influential supplier scorecard program. This week in a webinar and its Global Responsibility Report, Walmart announced that it will broaden its initial 15-question scorecard to 100 major categories, with category-specific questions, by the end of [...] Read more »
P&G recently announced the free availability of its supplier scorecard tool. P&G has saved over $1B in operational savings in its own operations through reductions in energy and waste and is encouraging its suppliers to do the same. The scorecard tracks energy, waste, carbon emissions, and other factors and provides a numerical score. PG recognized [...] Read more »
After an undoubtedly extensive evaluation, Microsoft this week selected CarbonSystems software to meet its sustainability and environmental reporting needs. This is an important win for CarbonSystems and illustrates that vendor leadership for sustainability software remains very much up for grabs. The deal also definitely puts to bed the notion that spreadsheets are sufficient to track [...] Read more »
Today we released our Enterprise Smart Grid research report. Since starting this research effort 18 months ago it’s stunning to look back at how things have changed, even since we hosted our first ESG conference last fall. While customers interviews taught us the real business drivers and benefits learned from corporate early adopters, the vendor interviews [...] Read more »
Wow, the nonprofit Environmental Investment Organization (EIO) lists 38 large companies that publicly report at least four of the Scope 3 categories. Sustainability leaders should continue to learn from these early pioneers as they evaluate the benefits and cost of Scope 3 reporting for their companies. Thousands of firms around the world already use the [...] Read more »
While very useful, energy audits and building assessments are labor intensive, as the experienced energy professional needs to physically walk through the buildings and analyze energy consumption data manually, often with spreadsheets. Energy audits of commercial and industrial facilities involve a large amount of data collection and analysis. Utility bills must be gathered for at [...] Read more »
I spent last Wednesday at the California PUC in San Francisco participating in a workshop debating the merits of California’s newly proposed policy for utility on-bill repayment (OBR). (Although being at the workshop necessitated my taking the Boston redeye that night (ugh) my spirits were lifted as I waited at SFO and watched Duke hoop’s last minute upset at [...] Read more »
