Energy Management – Veritatis Advisors

Veritatis Insights – Utility Networks get ISO 50001, perhaps just in time

Don Macdonald May 2, 2018 No Comments

US Department of Energy (DOE) hits its stride by launching the several year old private sector energy management platform for continual improvement into the gasping utility sector, perhaps just in…

Green Bonds free-up capital and enable treasury side climate leverage

Don Macdonald February 12, 2018 No Comments

A Bank of America analysis found that more investors were interested in the green bond tranche. Fortune 100 company is able to pay a reduced rate and not have to…

Simplicity Matters – Utilities and Work Force Development

Don Macdonald August 9, 2017 No Comments

Steve Jobs through sheer tenacity and resilience, focused on simplicity. Fired from Apple, created NEXT, rehired by Apple because he knew above all else simplicity matters. The Utility industry work…

Veritatis Insights – Efficiency begets Consumption, the Jevons Paradox of Sustainability

Don Macdonald January 16, 2017 No Comments

Veritatis Insights considers the economic rebound principal known as ‘Jevons Paradox’ as it applies to a widely known product, Scottish Whiskey. Scotlands fine whiskey industry is an example of the consumption…

Utilities begin to realize Efficiency as an Energy Resource

Don Macdonald September 6, 2016 No Comments

Utility adoption of energy efficiency programs is an outsourced model of engagement perhaps until now. According to AEEE, utilities a bit counter-intuitive in their market adoption thinking, are now seeing…

Schneider Electric reports stunning success in deployment of its energy management strategy

Don Macdonald July 14, 2016 No Comments

Veritatis Advisors global client Schneider Electric reports stunning success in deployment of its energy management strategy devised by VA’s Don Macdonald. It is always welcomed to see other reporting on your…

Embedding Sustainability in Every Day Life

Don Macdonald May 17, 2016 3 Comments

Veritatis InSights Sustainability has yet to Become Embedded in Our Every Day Lives If you look closely at the Google search word trend graph for the word “Sustainability” over…

Risk Management borne of Experience

Don Macdonald April 9, 2016 No Comments

Managing Risk and the sport of Open Water Marathon Swimming … You would be surprised to learn of the correlation between managing risk and the sport of Open Water Marathon…

49 percent of North American supply-chain executives don’t view sustainability as a strategic priority

Don Macdonald April 16, 2016 No Comments

In an exert taken from Supply Chain Brain, Veritatis Advisors Partner West Monroe Partners, David South Head of Sustainability, highlights some of the out-takes from COP21 and study implications coming…

ENERGY MANAGEMENT BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING

Don Macdonald February 17, 2016 2 Comments

ENERGY MANAGEMENT BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING By Don Macdonald, LEED AP, CEM Not often talked about is an obscure behavioral and computer science religion called Decision Support, a basic form…

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