Whereas Tufts handed out glow-in-the-dark condoms and threw a pizza party for the winning dorm, McCormick Hall will receive an energy efficiency audit and improvements worth $10,000, courtesy of the MIT Housing Office.
She spent two hours with a the technician who provided a free efficiency audit of her home that yielded compact fluorescent light bulbs, new showerheads and faucet aerators and a list of broken sprinklers.
The situation at the ABC is dire the Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked for an efficiency audit to see where money can be cut, while there are suggestions they'll lose a $200 million contract to provide content to the Asia Pacific region.
It helps that in 2009 the agency pledged 100 million Singapore dollars, or about $80 million, to landlords over five years to pay for efficiency audits and install energy-efficient cooling units, motion sensors, and shading devices.
BrightPower provides comprehensive energy efficiency audits and heating and lighting retrofits for multi-tenant affordable housing in the New York metropolitan area.
Do energy efficiency "audits" really benefit companies over time?
Solar Universe competitors, like SolarCity — which won The 2010 Best Clean Tech Crunchies Award — or Sungevity, generate revenue directly from customers, providing services like: energy efficiency audits for homes, project quotes, solar power systems design, financing help, installation and monitoring.
Today, Sary is a certified energy analyst and leads energy efficiency audits on homes.
Visible green improvements include high-efficiency LED street lighting, hybrid electric municipal vehicles, plug-in stations at municipal parking lots, energy-efficiency audits and upgrades of municipal offices and services, and small subsidies for energy and water efficiency efforts and for tree planting by homeowners.
This study contributes to our understanding of how auditors manoeuvre with their performance audit devices in different ways to make efficiency auditable.
From a more critical perspective, however, Selwyn (2014) notes that ideals of the digital university favoured by policymakers and policy influencers emphasize neoliberal logics of economics, efficiency, competition, audit, accounting, performance measurement, quality management, marketization, commercialization and privatization.
