When selecting a single commodity (such as Natural Gas), is it still all utilities in total cost or just Natural Gas? The Natural Gas Commodity Auto-Group is only including Natural Gas meters ...

In June 2013, Virginia Beach won a prestigious award that has been awarded only twice in 12 years. In this interview, we talk with members of the energy management team–Trish Donahue an...

One of this season’s most popular TV shows was a science fiction series called Under the Dome. (If you missed it, you can watch the preview here.) Loosely based on the novel by Stephen King, t...

This summer I needed to dismantle an old wooden playset in my backyard. It had served my children faithfully for more than a decade but its usefulness was at an end. However, the 4×4 beam...

If you can’t quantify energy savings, you might be wasting your time. The fact is, many variables affect energy use: changes in building square footage, type of primary use, billing period le...

The City of Westminster, Colorado was like many other modest-sized municipalities when it came to handling utility bill expenses. But Thomas Ochtera, Energy Coordinator for the City, set out ...

Groom Energy and GreenBiz.com conducted a survey to learn about the emerging role of corporate energy managers. In this six-minute video, Chris Heinz, VP of Marketing for EnergyCAP, Inc. inter...

EnergyCAP was named as one of ten Enterprise Smart Grid Leaders by Groom Energy, but EnergyCAP is bucking the trend. The report by Groom Energy, entitled “2013 Enterprise Smart Grid wit...

In 2012, four California cities declared a fiscal emergency and/or filed for bankruptcy. Under that gloomy economic cloud, the City of San Bernardino offers a silver lining—the story of how a ...

The City of Virginia Beach (CVB) has received the Louisville Award for Innovation in Government from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for improving the City’s utility bill ma...

A few years ago, my wife and I applied to adopt a child from overseas, and were approved by two national governments—the United States and the Philippines. So when we filled out the paperwork ...

Recently EnergyCAP received an email from Janet Purchase, the energy manager for Riverside County, CA. According to Janet, the county’s energy management office has saved $96,000 in ener...