Natural Resources committee  I certainly think it does. It's interesting. One thing I've noticed just in the last year or two with our customers is that, previously there was very much a focus on energy costs, but more recently.... We have two or three major clients, both public sector and private sector, w

Natural Resources committee  That's certainly fair for some of our clients. Not all, but some definitely have that view.

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure, as a small business owner, that I'm necessarily in a great position to answer that question. Certainly within the context of energy efficiency, that is an incentive for energy efficiency. There's a larger question obviously. Your point is more about total energy co

Natural Resources committee  The rise in emissions, I think, is largely industrial and from the production of natural gas. There are things that are outside of the context of the conversation around energy efficiency, I would say. There are a lot of other issues that need to be looked at under a broader lens

Natural Resources committee  That really varies from project to project. I think that, in two of those cases, those were completed projects, with which we will often stay involved post-project. We always try to verify savings at the completion of the project. Occasionally, clients will want to know what the

Natural Resources committee  Certainly. We are rare, in that we're one of the only firms that focus exclusively on energy efficiency. There's at least one other large firm that does similar work, and there are a large number of small firms and sole proprietorships that do similar work, so we are one of proba

Natural Resources committee  No. The energy managers are employed by our clients. Sometimes we do contract energy management and sometimes we are hired to support energy managers in developing their strategic energy management plans or documents like that. It's a partnership.

Natural Resources committee  We are fee-for-service consultants. There are larger organizations—what you're referring to is what we call an ESCO model or energy services company model. That tends to be for very large projects in which you might retrofit an entire municipality—for tens of millions of dollars.