Carbon Lighthouse

Carbon Lighthouse is an American environmental organization that makes it profitable for commercial and industrial buildings to become carbon neutral. Primarily, Carbon Lighthouse performs turnkey energy efficiency and renewable energy projects for office buildings, industrial plants, and schools.[1] A portion of proceeds from projects are donated to its non-profit partner Carbon Lighthouse Association to purchase carbon allowances from government markets.[2] The organization is headquartered in San Francisco.

Mission

Carbon Lighthouse was created with the goal of using market forces to stop climate change. Solutions it offers are designed to scale to a diverse set of locations and markets, have a large potential environmental impact, and be profitably self-sustaining without government regulation or subsidies.[3][4][5]

History

Carbon Lighthouse was founded in 2009 by Brenden Millstein and Raphael Rosen. The organization began with energy projects in California and Oregon and through the support of various social innovation competitions including the Echoing Green Fellowship, the Stanford StartX Fellowship, the Stanford Social Innovation Fellowship, and others.[6][7][8]

Business Approach

Carbon Lighthouse’s business approach was designed to minimize the cost and time required to reduce energy consumption in commercial and industrial buildings. The organization does not focus on energy studies or capital-intensive retrofits, but earns income by delivering energy savings, primarily through the optimization of existing equipment already installed in buildings.[9] Carbon Lighthouse engineers collect and analyze large amounts of data.[10][11] The firm takes an entire building approach.[12][13][14]

Carbon Lighthouse offers an efficiency PPA to reduce upfront project expenses.[15]

Ghostbusters of Energy Efficiency

Carbon Lighthouse’s data driven approach has led it to be known as “The Ghostbusters of Energy Efficiency."[16][17]

References

  1. ↑ http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/two-green-approaches
  2. ↑ http://www.rggi.org/market/co2_auctions/results/41-co2-auctions-tracking-a-offsets/co2-auctions
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-27. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  4. ↑ http://www.unsectored.net/crazy-enough-to-try-the-impossible
  5. ↑ http://mckinseyonsociety.com/innovate-videos/carbon-lighthouse/
  6. ↑ http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/brenden-millstein
  7. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45jdde/raphael-rosen-and-brenden-millstein/
  8. ↑ http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/2012-06-21/americas-most-promising-social-entrepreneurs-2012#slide3
  9. ↑ http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/carbon-lighthouse-deep-retrofits-quick-paybacks
  10. ↑ http://www.energymanagertoday.com/carbon-lighthouse-retrofit-identifies-1m-in-energy-savings-088479/
  11. ↑ http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/san-francisco/hundred-year-tune-up-2/
  12. ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/video/taking-on-climate-change-one-bulb-at-a-time-
  13. ↑ http://www.9news.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1306674919001
  14. ↑ http://paloalto.patch.com/groups/business-news/p/carbon-lighthouse
  15. ↑ http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2012/03/14/financing-energy-efficiency-upgrades-in-commercial-properties/
  16. ↑ http://planetforward.org/tv-segments/taking-on-climate-change-one-bulb-at-a-time
  17. ↑ http://www.9news.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1306674919001

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