eBay Bids on Energy Efficiency and Wins

By Environmental Defense on 07/21/2010 – 11:45 am PST -- Green

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Very rapidly, I’ve adjusted any expectations of sweeping in to heroically discover major energy efficiency gains. This is not to say that eBay Inc. has finished a “job well done.” On the contrary, I have found my value add this summer as a needed resource for ongoing projects as colleagues try to manage the energy usage and carbon output of their business unit or department. Although energy efficiency is a continuing goal, rarely does a decision-maker understand the energy impacts of each option up for consideration without relying on other expertise. 

And who knows? I still have three weeks left this summer – plenty of time to continue digging around for that hidden goldmine of energy efficiency treasure.

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  • http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-jaber/3/919/514 D. Jaber

    Sounds great, Megan. Have you looked at:
    - building commissioning to ensure efficient equipment is operating as designed? PG&E will tell you they find economizers failed open or shut a significant amount of the time?
    - monitoring employee plug loads to ID equipment that’s unnecessarily on (e.g. do an audit after most have gone home)
    - telling eBay to invest in energy efficiency elsewhere for more bang for their buck and as a directly demonstrable carbon offset?

    Best wishes with the project! Feel free to contact me directly, and if you can’t get my email off my comment entry, just let me know

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