How to Get Utilities to Take Risks In Energy Efficiency Innovation?

Aug. 15, 2013
Energy Efficiency Innovation: How to Encourage Utilities to Embrace It? What’s needed in order for utilities to take more risks and adopt new technologies and services in energy efficiency? What are the benefits of those energy efficiency technologies and services to utilities and consumers? Lisa Cohn of EnergyEfficiencyMarkets.com interviews Hemant Teneja, co-founder of the Advanced […]

Energy Efficiency Innovation: How to Encourage Utilities to Embrace It?

What’s needed in order for utilities to take more risks and adopt new technologies and services in energy efficiency? What are the benefits of those energy efficiency technologies and services to utilities and consumers? Lisa Cohn of EnergyEfficiencyMarkets.com interviews Hemant Teneja, co-founder of the Advanced Energy Economy (AEE).

AEE is an association of businesses working to make energy secure, clean and affordable.

Visit AEE here: Advanced Energy Economy

About the Author

Lisa Cohn | Contributing Editor

I focus on the West Coast and Midwest. Email me at [email protected]

I’ve been writing about energy for more than 20 years, and my stories have appeared in EnergyBiz, SNL Financial, Mother Earth News, Natural Home Magazine, Horizon Air Magazine, Oregon Business, Open Spaces, the Portland Tribune, The Oregonian, Renewable Energy World, Windpower Monthly and other publications. I’m also a former stringer for the Platts/McGraw-Hill energy publications. I began my career covering energy and environment for The Cape Cod Times, where Elisa Wood also was a reporter. I’ve received numerous writing awards from national, regional and local organizations, including Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Willamette Writers, Associated Oregon Industries, and the Voice of Youth Advocates. I first became interested in energy as a student at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, where I helped design and build a solar house.

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