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As we watch Europe’s financial system teeter on the brink, many are preparing for the US’s own unwelcomed, but necessary austerity effort. Yet with yesterday’s deadlock by the Super Committee, we’re all left wondering if our elected leaders have been watching too much ESPN, detailing the NBA’s own failure to come to an agreement, after over two [...] Read more »
Last week’s conference provided 150 attendees a cross section of market viewpoints from a diverse lineup of corporate energy managers. ISO related, NGO, utility and vendor also chimed in. Representing a variety of different industries (industrial, manufacturing, retail and university), we learned how the corporate energy management process is managed in each, and the challenges, [...] Read more »
Pictures from the Groom Energy very successful Enterprise Smart Grid / ISO 50001 conference last week. Read more »
This morning we heard some useful experiences during our Corporate Energy Management case study presentations: From Paul Lutkitsch at Millipore – they've had great success by buying their own sophisticated metering tools (light, electric, thermal imaging, etc) and training an army of Millipore "energy auditors" to do their own internal assessments looking for energy efficiency [...] Read more »
The following questions were submitted by attendees during online registration for a our Enterprise Smart Grid conference this week. ISO 50001 - What are the benefits of ISO 50001 and the business case for investing money and time? - What is the effort for ISO 50001? Why bother? Do CEOs care about this? - Where [...] Read more »
We're delighted about the high level of interest in our event next week and the great set of attending companies. The event is now sold out. See many of you next week. Here are 4 key questions we'll discuss next week for which I'll report the highlights in a future email. What are the benefits [...] Read more »
Increasingly companies today are finding energy savings opportunities based on submetering their facilities. Using this new visibility to current consumption, much of these savings are achieved through simple no-cost, behavior changes, i.e. turning off unneeded equipment. Submetering highlights that fact that these systems were running when they need not be. Retailers, banks, groceries, and companies [...] Read more »
In the last few years, demand response (DR) programs, which pay companies for their willingness to reduce energy usage when called by the utilities, have been a “killer app” for many participants. DR incentives are paid to organizations based on how much peak demand can be reduced, i.e. more peak demand = more money. Utilities, [...] Read more »
Submetering your main meter is a fundamental start to developing a comprehensive corporate energy management strategy. But since this takes time, money or one of the few utilities that offer this as a free service, many companies don’t yet have this visibility. Unless by chance they’ve signed up for Demand Response. One of the [...] Read more »
As sustainability leaders come to grips with the problem of obtaining energy use data for their disparate facilities, more of them are now looking to utility bill management vendors for assistance. These vendors are in a very good position to help companies build and maintain a company-wide database or “system of record” of energy use [...] Read more »
