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John Davies at Greenbiz released results of the 6th annual GreenBiz survey of sustainability leaders. This survey always contains good trend information and this year’s survey confirmed a trend we’ve been seeing — continued emphasis in energy efficiency by large companies. After reviewing the data, John writes: “we asked what the number-one initiative was at [...] Read more »
Of course the conventional view is that the smart grid market will be “huge” – and the target for smart grid today is squarely on the residential market. So it shouldn’t be missed that within days of each other both Google and Microsoft killed their initial home energy software applications. First came Microsoft, shutting down [...] Read more »
Lake County Power, a co-op utility in MN, issued a critical peak pricing alert last Friday asking co-op members to voluntarily cut back electricity use Friday between noon and 10 pm. Members were asked to: ·Postpone use of appliances such as washers and dishwashers until after 10 pm ·Turn off non-essential lights and appliances ·Turn [...] Read more »
Department of Energy released an impressive, free report about commercially available products and emerging technologies to reduce energy for commercial buildings. Over 100 products and technologies for building envelope, HVAC and water heating, lighting and windows are detailed information on applications, benefits, and contact information. Nice job! Read more »
Today’s hype around Smart Grid 2.0 continues to be focused on utilities and the homeowner. Policy-makers predict intelligent networks of electrons flowing in and out of the home. The theory is that during peak-pricing, high-demand periods, utilities will save homeowners money by automatically slowing down their air conditioners and refrigerators and buying electricity from [...] Read more »
Schneider Electric has the first building in the world to earn ISO 50001 certification. The new ISO 50001 standard defines the requirements for the development, implementation, maintenance and improvement of energy management systems. The new standard is designed to help organizations to continuously improve the energy performance of commercial and industrial buildings. U.S. Department [...] Read more »
A few months ago our engineers were talking with a utility manager about an industrial ESG project. Our system design was eligible for a utility rebate, but the manager was concerned that our “cost per meter” seemed high. Without knowing the functionality we needed at the sub-meter, he made the natural leap to divide the [...] Read more »
Datotel provides outsourced data center services and needs to manage energy use to improve margins and stay competitive. The data center has thousands of separate devices and loads. Technology used includes CA ecoMeter from CA Technologies. Business case based on timely and correct billing of customer, better insight into system performance for energy reduction, and [...] Read more »
The University of Connecticut has been using submetering as part of its comprehensive energy management system for years. Electric, water and steam are submetered across 75 percent of campus buildings. The technology uses includes meters from Schneider Electric, Sensus, Neptune, among others. Square D products are used and the data are communicated through the Schneider [...] Read more »
A large industrial plant needed to reduce energy costs and to better allocate energy costs across cost centers. The traditional method of relying on 30-60 day-old, aggregated utility bills was not timely or granular enough. The solution was to use 400 submeters and energy management software. The company uses Diehl meters, Rockwell products and Invensys/Wonderware [...] Read more »
