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jqkeller
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Comment #17191128
My understanding of their data innovation is on the marketing side. What I heard is they're narrowing their marketing to only homes on heating oil or propane, essentially not going…
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Comment #17188242
Ground Source (geothermal) heat pumps are not new, but Dandelion is doing interesting/innovative things. Here is my understanding from keeping track of what they're up to for a lit…
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Comment #12648822
Are you helping utilities that don't have an API to setup one?
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Comment #12575958
I've worked on a few street light retrofit projects and the AMA warning is a little overblown and frankly immediately outdated. This is off the cuff, but it comes down to circadian…
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Comment #12561935
I was just commenting today how approachable this book makes understanding the requirements to transition to renewable energy. I would warn though that the little bit of economics …
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Comment #11101694
Under the current regulatory schemes and market rules the low capacity factor of solar is absolutely a problem. I guess I'm saying that more flexibility for smaller systems to play…
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Comment #11100854
Maybe at the 100MW scale it already operates like this, but not at smaller scale. Recently I had a discussion with a county level public utility district where we were exploring bu…
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Comment #10361483
One of the basic arguments of this piece is that skyscrapers have a lower environmental impact than low and mid rise buildings, but that's not necessarily true. The city of Seattle…