Emerging Technologies Associates believes that strong energy management is a strategic asset and an indicator of long term profitability and productivity. Our strategies create a competitive edge by enhancing resource and asset productivity while providing our clients a marketing advantage with clear messaging about their energy management strategy. We have combined the strategies laid out by Professor Ernst von Weizsäcker in his books Factor Four and Factor Five with the roadmap created by the ENERGY STAR energy management strategic program.

To learn more about ENERGY STAR for Buildings and Plants, please click on www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_index

We utilize Resource Enhancement strategies and Cash Flow-based financial strategies in our sustainability projects. Our consulting work is based on “real world” projects that have been assessed under Evaluation, Measuring and Verification projects funded by the State of California and other leading research institutes such as Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute. Emerging technologies assessment is a powerful tool to evaluate, measure and verify the performance of the new system and its ability to achieve the energy efficiency, environmental, design, comfort and financial objectives.  We design in situ pilot projects as a means of validating stated performance claims.

Reaping the benefits of an energy management strategy requires taking full advantage of cash flow, productivity gains and other non-energy benefits across departments, facilities and business units. By deriving a lower blended cost of capital for our clients, we help them achieve their expected return on equity, return on assets and profitability goals. We strongly believe that meeting the key profitability and hurdle rates expected by the finance team is crucial in gaining acceptance and adoption of energy efficiency strategies.

The strategic direction of an enterprise sets the tone for resource productivity. The ability to learn from experiences and share the lessons learned is critical to minimizing investment risk and managing productivity. We believe a “real world” practitioner approach must be blended in with the engineered solution to achieve success. We inspire and create excitement by building knowledge confidence.

Emerging energy efficient technologies play a critical role in the future of energy management. We believe that in the longer term, the development and dissemination of breakthrough energy efficient technologies will preserve the energy that will fuel our economy with reduced or no greenhouse gas emissions.