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One very large industrial customer lamented to us his frustration with utilities’ strong focus on innovative smart grid solutions and investments for homes but very little demonstrated effort for commercial and industrial customers. He pointed out that many of his large plants use tremendous amounts of energy and a small savings or load shifting [...] Read more »
A manufacturing customer recently told us about their great success over the past several years using spot metering to identify top loads. They initially started with just a few data loggers at corporate and would make it an interactive, fun experience with local plant and facility managers to identify top loads and potential savings areas. [...] Read more »
Ahold USA selected EnerNOC to provide real-time energy monitoring for its 630 supermarket locations throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic region. Ahold will use EnerNOC’s EfficiencySMART Insight offering, which monitors energy enterprise-wide and provides store-level visibility into overall energy usage and spending. This is an impressive win for EnerNOC as undoubtedly Schneider Electric, Johnson Controls [...] Read more »
Investors are beginning to understand the opportunities on the demand side for energy efficiency and investments are now beginning to rise. A few of the start-ups raising money in 2011 include BuildingIQ, Joulex, PoweritSolutions, and Scientific Conservation, among others. Whitney Michael at CleanTech Group reported 50 investments in energy efficiency in 2010, the highest in [...] Read more »
The smart grid discussion has been dominated by the huge opportunities for improvement in utility distribution and provisioning of energy and the opportunity with residential customers. Relatively little attention and research have been paid to commercial and industrial on the demand side, which can represent up to 50%-70% of usage and peak load in different [...] Read more »
Lots of good data are available from the recent Johnson Controls survey. Here are a few findings that caught our eyes and are related to Enterprise Smart Grid: Last year, most respondents thought energy prices would creep up. That holds true for 2011, with more than 80 percent of participants in every region saying that [...] Read more »
Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are in a unique position to drive sustainability into their organizations for competitive advantage. This article highlights seven sustainability trends every CFO needs to know. CFOs are already involved in many aspects of sustainability. Numerous functional teams that work on parts of sustainability report to the CFO. These groups include investor [...] Read more »
Earlier this year we conducted a survey of the purchase intentions of large companies for carbon and energy management software and services. One notable finding that has already surfaced is the lack priority some chief financial officers (CFO) assign to energy management, which mirrors our consulting in the field. Simply stated, energy management is not [...] Read more »
Companies are increasingly interested in setting public energy reduction goals as senior management teams better recognize the link between reduced energy consumption, cost savings and an improved company carbon footprint. During this recession and with energy prices starting to rise, sustainability leaders that do not have a formal energy reduction goal should establish one this [...] Read more »
During the past twelve months, we’ve seen an increasing number of companies look to utility bill management and payment vendors to help them create a company-wide database of energy use data for sustainability and energy management. In response, utility bill management companies have expanded their offerings for carbon management. Many companies offer utility bill audits [...] Read more »
