Posts tagged: energy management
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We're not talking about your love life. We’re talking about working in an institutional setting, where getting things done is no simple task. If you’re looking at launching a major initiative, an interdepartmental project, or moving forward with your climate action goals, you need to draw from a different toolkit than your job description outlines—you need to be persuasive.
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Understanding the ins and outs of financing energy projects is not everyone's strength. But getting more familiar with the different, sometimes creative ways you can help your institution figure out how to pay for efficiency and renewables could make a difference. This presentation was designed to help you develop more familiarity with the terms, the pros, the cons, and the contingencies to make conversations with your institution's CFO go more smoothly.
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William James College, located in Newton, Mass., offers accredited mental health professional training programs, including a program that trains veterans training to treat other veterans. Financing building improvements through GreenerMass has made it possible to begin addressing issues with building comfort, improving the physical environment for students and educators.
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Here’s how one university has joined their reputation for excellence in dining with an efficient sustainable food metric tracking system through community-distributed responsibility—and won awards for both.
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The U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager® provides a platform for campus-wide data collection and benchmarking the energy performance of all kinds of commercial buildings. Energy managers on college campuses, however, often face a challenge in both accurately metering energy at the building level and categorizing buildings under the Portfolio Manager framework of use types. Now the new Higher Education Benchmarking Initiative seeks to collect campus-wide data from colleges and universities across North America—and offer energy scorecards in return.
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GreenerMass contract with Williams James College will allow GreenerU to replace an obsolete energy management system for the Newton-based private school for undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology with no upfront cost. Program funds are still available for Massachusetts nonprofit institutions.
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Massachusetts may enact the first state-wide legislation requiring compliance with minimum building performance standards. Find out if your institution's buildings are affected.
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The program offers $60 million by way of a 30% cost-share incentive to support building energy analysis and control, using software that draws data from building automation systems and programmable to a building’s custom settings.
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