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Financially Viable Sustainability Solutions in Multifamily Residential Properties
(2018-04-27)
Drucker and Falk is a family-owned real estate company that focuses on third-party
fee management of multifamily properties. Through isolated LED retrofit projects,
Drucker and Falk realized the environmental and financial ...
Correlational analysis of energy burden and eviction rate
(2019-04-24)
Evictions occur when a landlord expels renters from residing in property the landlord
owns. Recent data suggest that approximately 40% of residential households in California
from years 2012 to 2016 are occupied by renters. ...
A Roadmap to the New Rural Electric Cooperative Business Model
(2017-04-27)
In North Carolina today, rural electric cooperatives provide electricity to 26% of
the state’s population. Conducted for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), this project
aims to assess the services that these cooperatives ...
Incentivizing Energy Efficiency In Public Buildings Through Information Disclosure: North Carolina Community Colleges As Case Study
(2010-05-06)
The energy efficiency gap, which describes the difference between current and socially
optimal levels of energy efficiency, has persisted for decades, even as our nation’s
energy intensity has improved. Economics literature ...
Marketing Home Energy Efficiency: Benefits and Barriers to Adopting a Home Energy Efficiency Program
(2016-04-29)
Energy efficiency can contribute significantly to the reduction of greenhouse gas
emissions and the associated mitigation of climate change. The uptake of energy efficiency
measures in the residential sector requires significant ...
The Combined Heat and Power Market for Small Commercial End-Users in North Carolina
(2007-12-05)
Combined heat and power (CHP) is an approach to generating both electricity and usable
thermal energy than can offer numerous environmental and economic benefits over more
conventional generation methods. Previous research ...
Energy Demand Characteristics and the Potential for Energy Efficiency in Sports Stadiums and Arenas
(2011-12-09)
A professional sports stadium can use 5-10 MW of electricity during an event, the
equivalent of 5,000 American homes. The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) classifies
these buildings under the broader "entertainment and ...
The Impact of Appliance Efficiency on Building Energy Performance -A Case Study for a Tianjin Eco-city in China
(2010-04-29)
Buildings consume approximately 40% of the total energy use in the world. A building
is a complex system whose annual energy use consists of many factors. The top five
end-uses of building energy are space heating, space ...
Demonstrating Air Emissions Reductions Through Energy Efficiency Retrofits on Maersk Line G-Class Vessels
(2017-04-28)
Maersk Line has committed to investing $1 billion over five years to retrofit around
100 vessels to increase capacity and reduce fuel consumption. $125 million of that
investment was used to retrofit 12 G-class vessels. ...
Energy Efficiency and Conservation at North Carolina Central University
(2010-04-16)
Energy efficiency and conservation are considered one of the most important and easy
to implement ways of reducing energy consumption and associated carbon emissions.
This MP evaluates various energy efficiency and conservation ...