James Braun Quotations

We're still considering expanding into Cincinnati. It's contingent upon the incentives that may be approved by the state.

I believe there is substantial evidence to charge. We will discuss that with Anoka County authorities in the near future.

This requires some limited testing for every building.

We found that you can go down to 70 degrees and people will not complain. In fact, they won't even notice.

Then, when the critical peak pricing period starts in the afternoon, you start adjusting that temperature upwards, going as high as 78. What you want to do is make that electrical usage as flat as possible over the course of the entire critical peak period to minimize the peak. Normally it will peak in the middle of the afternoon, but you want to flatten the peak.

Small commercial buildings tend to be one to four stories, but the main distinction is that they use packaged equipment. A packaged air conditioner is a cooling system that is completely assembled in a factory rather than on the site. An example of a small commercial building might be a shopping mall, which contains several rooftop air conditioning units that all have individual thermostat controls, compared to a system that has one central cooling system that must be put together on the site.

California officials are especially concerned about capacity problems in the summertime.