Turning Policy into Performance: Measuring Equity to Achieve Restorative Justice

15,600 hours. This is the amount of time, on average, that a student spends in school by the time he or she graduates from high school (Harvard report). Other than their homes, today’s students spend more time at school than anywhere else. We know this for a fact - yet we still overlook the importance of the physical school environment. Education is key, not only for students, but for the rest…

Welcome to the latest REED Rendering issue, a series of blogs where we bring your attention to interesting trends that we see in the data and the stories behind those trends. Has your home ever blown a fuse during the summer from running window air conditioning (AC) units? Well, it has happened to me. My roommates and I live in an old renovated three-story home, and it gets hot in the…

As an organization evolves, sometimes so must its surroundings. Life and routine seem to have settled in (for the most part) these days, but back in early May, things were the opposite of routine. We uprooted ourselves out of the space we called home for four great, important years that saw milestones like our 20th anniversary, and embarked on a journey in search of a new beginning. Saying…

Is using electricity almost exclusively for all energy needs – such as transportation, home heating and industry uses – really a key part of the global warming solution? Well, it absolutely is. Of course it’s critical to decarbonize the grid with wind and solar and other renewables as part of the process, but dramatically shifting energy uses to electricity, while also making them more efficient…

School is out and so is the legislature! The sun is shining bright and some states’ legislatures are winding down for the season. A noticeable trend that has developed this session is the passage of bills related to energy storage. Summer is a great time for energy storage because all of the captured energy can be used to help meet summer peak demand. Let’s take a closer look at this trend.…

With July comes the biggest cycling race in the world - Le Tour de France. As an avid biker, this annual summer event is one of my personal favorites. It appeals for a variety of reasons, including the perseverance racers have, the variety of terrain and landscapes the course travels, and the collective wave of success. Biking may be an individual sport, but there are definitely aspects of…

This post was written by Michael Zhe, Sales Director at CoolGreenPower, as part of its membership in NEEP’s Allies Program. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) has created a novel way for proposals to simultaneously help MassCEC achieve its mission of accelerating the success of clean energy technologies, companies, and projects in the Commonwealth while also creating high-…

My immediate reaction upon learning of President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement was to panic. Would this decision be an irreparable blow to our struggle to cut emissions? Would we have to resign ourselves to the idea that achieving the Paris Agreement’s climate goals would be impossible? The Paris Agreement included the United States’ non-binding agreement to lower…

This post was written by Tim Guiterman, Director of Measurement and Optimization Solutions at EnergySavvy, as part of its membership in NEEP’s Allies Program. The following post was adapted from my comments given at NEEP’s EM&V Forum Spring Meeting. I was invited by NEEP to speak and moderate a panel on whole building analysis and the emergence of M&V 2.0 technologies. I had the…

This is the 2017 installment of this series. Click here for the 2016 update. If the 12 states in our region were NBA teams and they scored points with home energy ratings instead of layups and three-pointers, Massachusetts and Maryland would be the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors. Maine would be our Boston Celtics. Vermont? They’d be the San Antonio Spurs. These might sound…