Category Archives: Gainesville Green

Gainesville Green made it on to the OpenEI.org blog!

This latest update is mostly bugfixes and backend improvements, in preparation for a sister site we’ll be bringing online Real Soon Now.  The new site will focus on renters, and helping choose more efficient apartments. There are two notable features … Continue reading →

We are so excited!  Today the DOE Office of Science announced the winners of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants, and we made it!  We spent a lot of time (55 hours according … Continue reading →

The latest update is all about making the map easier to use.  In the past, we had links from a home to a map showing a particular configuration of year, usage type (electricity, natural gas, etc), and comparison group, but … Continue reading →

I was looking at houses on Zillow this weekend and wanted to get a rough idea of their energy efficiency. I was copying a lot of addresses into our search page which worked fine just took a while. So instead … Continue reading →

We’ve just published another revision of the website, with some exciting new stuff. Speed We’ve done a performance run through the system, so everything will load faster than ever.  We were able to simplify a few major components, and completely … Continue reading →

Recently we’ve been working on more ways to display data, and this one so neat I wanted to share a screenshot: Very fun stuff to work on, we hope to have this up and interactive on the live site in … Continue reading →

Grant D. Jacobsen of UC Santa Barbara and  Matthew J. Kotchen of Yale University and NBER prepared a draft – Are Building Codes Effective at Saving Energy? Evidence From Residential Billing Data in Florida – for discussion at the Conference … Continue reading →

A team of researchers from schools across the country recently published a great paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce U.S. carbon emissions From the article … Continue reading →