Give Me Incentives, Or Give Me Death

Last week, Baltimore played host to the GreenTech Conference & Exposition–a convention geared towards facilities managers looking to make their buildings greener and more sustainable.

It was there, while attending a breakout session about energy rebates and incentives, that Mark Jewell, founder and president of RealWinWin, an energy efficiency consulting group, offered this query: Should the tail of incentives wag the dog of energy efficiency?


You would think not. But this is truly the scenario in which we currently find ourselves.

You see, as Washington finally starts to comprehend the looming energy crisis (provoked almost entirely by voters), new incentives are being enacted to establish alternative means of producing energy and increasing energy efficiency.

But these incentives have one major glitch.

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