Mining for Efficiency Reserves
Climate change may seem like an insurmountable challenge. But while politics and passions paint a bleak picture of inaction, Carbon Lighthouses recognize climate change as just another problem — and problems are meant to be solved. Many of the tools for profit-driven carbon elimination already exist, what matters is finding the combination of willpower, business sense, and financial structure that make it possible. Climate Solved is a podcast celebrating the ideas and collaborations that make use of market forces to take climate action. Each week, Co-founder and CEO Brenden Millstein sits down with a new guest to discuss the solutions that will stop climate change in our lifetime. Created for entrepreneurs and leaders in commercial real estate & hospitality investment, asset management, solar, and energy services, Volume 1 will introduce you to key members of the Carbon Lighthouse team and how they’re uniting commercial interests with a mission to stop climate change.
In the second episode of Climate Solved, Brenden joins Carbon Lighthouse Engineering VP, Matt Ganser, to discuss the origins of “Efficiency Reserves” and “Efficiency Production,” concepts borrowed from the oil industry playbook to describe the hidden value of clean energy and efficiency in buildings. According to Matt, it’s an intimacy with the problem that gets you to the best solution.