Author Archives: Rachael Morford

30% price hike?! Restaurants, C-Stores & Retail: Time to Manage Energy!

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This morning, a local Boston radio station broadcast a story about the projected 30-50% rise in electric prices this winter across New England. Because the price hike is due to structural issues including a lack of natural gas transmission capability (over 50% of electricity is generated by natural gas in New England), it is unlikely to be temporary, and […]

How did Arby’s Reduce Energy Use 7.6%? Case Study and Webinar

Arby's

We love our customers. So when one of them accomplishes something truly impressive, we can’t help but crow about it a bit. When Arby’s announced recently that they’d reduced their energy intensity by 7.6% across the company in the past year, on their way to a planned 15% reduction, we were thrilled to have been a part […]

Arby’s reduces energy use 7.6%, credits Powerhouse Dynamics’ SiteSage

Arby’s Restaurant Group (ARG) announced last week that the company managed to knock back its energy use intensity (a measure of the energy use per square foot on average across the entire company) a whopping 7.6% in 2013. As one of two companies partnering with Arby’s to achieve this reduction (the other being our Partners at Ecova), Powerhouse Dynamics […]