A practitioner's review of the 2026 Energy Efficiency Investment Report — what stood out, what it proves about where the industry is heading, and the two gaps that keep it from telling the whole story.
Today, June 1, is the Energize Denver deadline for both the 2025 benchmarking report and third-party data verification for buildings 25,000 sq ft and larger. Here is what you owe, what it costs to miss it, and the exact steps — including the extension that buys you time — to get compliant today.
Colorado HB 25-1269 (May 2025) made the 2026 BPS targets non-enforceable goals and shifted reporting to a July 1 – November 1 window. Here is what the law actually does, what didn't change, and what commercial owners over 50,000 sq ft should be planning between now and the 2030 targets.
The 179D Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings Deduction, ranging from $0.50 to $5.00 per square foot post-IRA, sunsets for projects that have not begun construction by June 30, 2026. Here is the math, what 'begun construction' means in practice, and how owners are stacking 179D with other incentives in 2026.
Agentic AI for building energy is past hype and into early deployment. A practitioner's field guide to what LLM-based BEMS actually does — natural-language ops queries, closed-loop HVAC control, autonomous M&V — and where it quietly fails. Grounded in current research and what we are building.
For a 100-ton commercial rooftop replacement in ASHRAE Climate Zone 5B, when does dual-fuel (heat-pump + gas backup) win on 20-year total cost of ownership versus all-electric heat-pump? The math depends on utility rates, refrigerant choices, and BPS exposure. Here's the model and where the breakpoints actually fall.
eGauge, DENT, Accuenergy, Setra, Schneider, Leviton — all good options, none right for every situation. This is the decision tree we use to pick submeters for commercial sites, from accuracy class to comms protocol to total installed cost. Based on what we deploy at Eenovators in Kenya and Colorado.
Mark Jewell teaches engineers a 15-second pitch built around the prospect's values, not the project's features. Here's the framework applied to a commercial heat-pump retrofit pitch to a financial buyer — what to say, what to skip, and the Klaff frame-control move that keeps you out of vendor purgatory.