Your Building Is Dumb. Here's a Way to Make it Smarter

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🗓️ 9 September 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Large commercial buildings are the fastest growing energy consumers in the U.S. Why? Because most of them are not very energy aware. Utilities and city planners understand this problem and have targeted the commercial building sector by providing rebates for retrofits, deploying smart meters and establishing stricter building codes. But the ability to gather actionable insights into how buildings are performing are only now emerging. In this podcast, we’ll talk with FirstFuel CEO Swapnil Shah about how data analytics can change the building efficiency paradigm. We’ll also talk about the company’s partnership with Opower, which will help the startup expand to more utilities. Later in the show, we’ll discuss the viability and economics of Tesla’s Giga factory and discuss the opening of America’s largest cellulosic ethanol refinery. This podcast is brought to you by SMA, the world's leading solar inverter manufacturer. With more than 850 service experts, 90 service hubs, 30-plus gigawatts installed globally and thousands of commercial and utility projects completed worldwide, SMA is the partner of choice for your PV projects. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Media Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This Podcast is brought to you by SMA, provider of the world's leading inverter technology
0:06.9	and backed by the world's leading service team.
0:09.9	With more than 850 service experts, 90 service hubs, 30 plus gigawatts installed globally
0:16.7	and thousands of commercial and utility scale projects completed worldwide, SMA is the partner
0:22.3	of choice for your PV projects.
0:25.0	For more, visit W.
0:27.0	SMA-America.com. For the week of September 9th, 2014, this is the Energy Gang from Green Tech Media. Welcome to the show.
0:45.0	In this episode, we are going to talk about the latest data analytics trends for energy efficiency, America's first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, and Tesla's gigafactory for batteries.
1:00.0	I am Green Tech Media Senior Editor Stephen Lacey in Washington, BC.
1:04.0	Here to walk you through some of these topics and also recording quickly here before jumping on a plane to the Bay Area for our soft grid conference that's going down this week.
1:14.3	Catherine Hamilton is also here in Washington.
1:17.3	She is a partner at the policy firm, 38 North Solutions and a frequent conference
1:22.3	goer herself, although not to soft grid this week.
1:25.0	What's going on this week, Catherine?
1:27.0	Well, we're having to get rid of all the plants in our office because we have a net problem.
1:33.5	So I'm really sad that we're going to get rid of, I don't know, probably a dozen plants.
1:37.1	I think that there were two things.
1:39.3	One was a net, one up the nose of one of my clients in a meeting last week and then another one
1:44.7	stowed away in my purse and started buzzing around somebody in a Senate office and so
1:49.5	we're gonna have to get rid of them.
1:50.7	So Congress comes back to town and then Nats infest your
1:54.2	office and kill your plants. Coincidence? I think not. That's right. Our other
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