Ep 101: Brenden Millstein, Co-Founder & CEO of Carbon Lighthouse
Apr 27, 2020•52 min
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Episode description
In today’s episode, we cover:
- Carbon Lighthouse, its business, vision and clientele
- The genesis of the company
- The opportunity of improving energy efficiency
- The early challenges of driving sales
- Carbon Lighthouse’s non-profit arm
- The substantial role commercial buildings play in emitting GHG
- Misaligned incentives of the many stakeholders involved
- Factors that led to a tipping point in the sales challenge
- What is HVAC optimization
- How Carbon Lighthouse uses software to optimize commercial HVAC systems
- Value and savings delivered to commercial buildings
- Carbon Lighthouse’s customer profile
- How landlord adoption is a continuing obstacle
- Carbon Lighthouse’s financing, operational expenses and costs
- Brenden’s views on utility-level policies to reduce emissions
- Brenden’s thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic and how it relates to climate change
Links to topics discussed in this episode:
- Carbon Lighthouse: https://www.carbonlighthouse.com/
- Carbon Lighthouse Association (non-profit arm): https://www.carbonlighthouse.org/
- “Spaghetti diagram” of energy use: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/index.html
- Green Building Initiative: https://thegbi.org/
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