A building energy strategy must be multi-pronged. Suggestions are to look holistically at the building. I look almost entirely at major expenses that can be reduced and then executed in an environmentally sensitive manner. To recap, CI Works has already in just 4 months reduced our electricity usage to the tune of 9,000 kWh per month on average through our lighting upgrade, recently completed and greatly appreciated by tenant businesses and employees. We are continuing to wor

While owners have anxiously waited to execute rooftop solar projects leveraging this innovative approach to lower electricity costs using existing roofs since it was announced by Gov. Baker in 2016, the state continues to shovel shit and get nothing completed - and make no commitments about an actual end being in sight. This seems pretty straightforward to me and is about utilizing solar energy to create a more competitive business environment in MA. I cheated and read the

Commercial PACE is a brilliant concept that conceivably could have great commercial benefit in reducing energy costs in Massachusetts for businesses. It is not an invented program, but an adaptation of an existing national program – successful in other states already. Gov. Baker came up with an interesting adaptation to focus on commercial buildings / businesses exclusively – in 2016. Now, 3 years later nothing has actually been accomplished, or even approved by whatever

Commercial building owners are often not either energy savings nor environmental sustainability focused types. They are just more short term profitability oriented…….or just dinosaurs. For the most part, they do not see capital investments in these initiatives or technologies as providing enough short term results or as primary to their business – hence avoidance rationale. If they can’t sell it, why should they care about it? Here is where more clarity, less conflicting m

CI Works invited state representative James Kelcourse to visit here this past Friday and meet with tenant businesses located here as well as other Amesbury businesses. Jim was very engaging with each company as to his role as a state rep, how his office would provide support to them on issues that they might be encountering whether it was obtaining required permitting or working on key legislation that impacts their businesses, or in connecting them to do business with the st