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By Elizabeth Cutright “The cleanest and lowest-cost way to meet our energy needs is to consume less,” writes C. David Myers, president of Johnson Controls Building Efficiency in an op-ed piece for The Hill ’s “Congress Blog”. Myers goes on to propose that in order for efficiency to really take hold, we must commit to strong incentives and easily attainable financial paybacks. Myers believes we must “raise the game” and put “the right tools and policies in place to increase investment in energy efficienc...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Energy Efficiency
By Paul Hull For the Biotechnology Building at Cornell University, the goals were to reduce energy costs through conservation measures and the installation of an effective building automation system. Included were the commitments to improve safety for building and occupants and to maintain the ongoing laboratory operations during the retrofit project. Retrofit? Yes, Cornell University’s Biotechnology Building has a deserved reputation for excellence in advanced scientific research, but its buildi...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Energy Efficiency
By Albert Thumann Since 1977 when the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) was founded, energy efficiency has been a growth market regardless of which party occupies the White House. Demand for energy efficiency professionals also continues to grow. Over the last five years, even as the US economy was in turmoil, the Association of Energy Engineer’s membership has doubled to 16,000. In 2012, AEE conducted a survey of our members for additional insights into demand for energy efficiency, professional ed...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Energy Efficiency
By Carol Brzozowski Day-to-day power surges offer a glimpse into the ramifications of more long-term power loss due to an emergency or disaster. In the past 15 years, there has been a 124% increase in blackouts affecting 50,000 customers or more. Power losses create an $80 billion annual loss for businesses. The median cost of downtime to a small business in the United States is $12,500 per day, according to statistics from Cummins Power Generation. In a world that has moved to 24/7 operations and avail...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Demand, Reliability
By Jeff Meyers and Lance Irwin Managing peak load is one of the most critical drivers in the utility industry today, despite slowed economic activity and correspondingly flatter load growth. But because of additional challenges like the need to cut carbon emissions, the increase in fuel and construction costs and the long lead time for planning and building new power plants, utilities will not, or cannot, rush to add new generation to their portfolio. Instead, many are turning to advanced smart grid tec...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Efficiency, EMS
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — April 26, 2012 — Aclara® , a leader in Intelligent Infrastructure technologies for utilities and part of the Utility Solutions Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE), today announces a contract with Nebraska's Twin Valleys Public Power District (TVPPD) to deploy Aclara’s TWACS and Demand Response Management System (DRMS) technologies. The integrated solution will provide a single, fully-integrated platform for demand response, advanced metering and data collection, and p...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand
By Dan Rafter
Tyson Schilz has seen the difference in the last five years. There was a time when building owners and municipalities rarely cared about how much energy their facilities consumed. Today, that’s changed. Tight budgets have forced school districts, municipalities, and private businesses to take a closer look at every dollar that they spend. This includes the money that they spend on powering their buildings each year. This is good news for Schilz, owner of Glow Electric Company, in Los Angeles, CA. In add...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Efficiency, EMS
By Paul Hull
The Bradley Home and Pavilion in Meriden, CT, has been celebrating its 70th anniversary, so it’s no late arrival on the building scene. It needed to take a practical, lasting approach to its energy costs in the long-term care facility. The home provides 74 beds in residential care and 30 beds in the skilled nursing unit. In the winter, space heating and water heating come from three dual-fuel boilers (natural gas and #2 fuel oil), and, in the summer, the facility used three water heaters, with electric ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Energy Reliability, Smart Grid
By Dan Rafter
For Salvatore Filardi, not entering into the $33.9 million agreement with NORESCO would have been fiscally irresponsible. The guaranteed energy savings agreement, in which Westborough, MA-based NORESCO will make infrastructure and energy efficiency changes at the campus of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMass), will provide a wide range of financial benefits. Not only will the campus, located in the municipality of Dartmouth, MA, significantly shave the size of its energy bills each year, it...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Efficiency, HVAC
By Paul Hull
What do we have now? How do we use our energy? How much does it cost us? It seems sensible and practical to understand how we spend our energy (and our dollars) before we start taking steps to improve efficiency and performance. A competent energy audit makes sense for all those in charge of commercial, institutional, and industrial structures because it will tell them what they have, how they use their equipment, how efficient that equipment performs in its real environment, and how they might improve ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Energy Management, Maintenance
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