Tag Archives: energy

This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: A website to assess your home’s energy efficiency

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Judith Nemes

With Chicago temperatures dipping into the frigid zone, two local entrepreneurs are betting their new green startup will cater to the legions of homeowners who aren’t doing all they can to be energy efficient. Energy Results co-founders Jason Blumberg and … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Power2Switch lets users comparison-shop for electricity

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Judith Nemes

A local energy-broker startup is making it easier for small businesses to compare electricity rates in Illinois and switch to the cheapest — or the greenest — supplier if a better deal comes along. Power2Switch LLCis like the travel website … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Indie Energy digs deep for renewable heating and cooling

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Judith Nemes

Indie Energy co-founders Daniel Cheifetz, left, and Erik Larson at the Walgreens store in Oak Park that’s now heated via their company’s technology. Shoppers stepping into a Walgreens that opened this week in Oak Park would probably never guess the store … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Scaling up local efforts to make older buildings more green

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Judith Nemes

A new program aimed at encouraging Chicago and Rockford-area building owners to do energy-efficiency retrofits is one step closer to kickoff after the non-profit CNT Energy was named coordinator of the effort this week. The retrofit program is being funded … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Clean Energy Trust aims to make Illinois a clean-tech contender

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Judith Nemes

Imagine Chicago and Illinois as the Midwest’s center of clean-technology innovation and investment and you can begin to understand why the Clean Energy Trust was created. The idea for the non-profit was hatched by a powerhouse group of Chicago business … Continue reading →

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This week’s Green Scene column in Crain’s Chicago Business: Wind turbine maker blows into town with focus on rooftops

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Judith Nemes

Some of the next crop of wind turbines hoisted onto buildings around Chicago may come from a small manufacturing plant on the city’s North Side intent on making a big name for itself in the wind-energy business. Andre DeRosa, 34, … Continue reading →

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