Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency includes articles about companies that efficiently use both conventional energy and renewable energy sources – such as solar and wind power often enjoy cost savings. In addition to examples of companies that use energy efficiently, these articles describe tools to reduce energy consumption, for example, power management software and smart grids.
Windows 8 Targets Application Efficiency
Microsoft's Windows 8 (pictured) will increase energy efficiency in the operating system's applications, according to two of the product's developers.
One example of this new ...
Lighting Brief: Soraa, Cree and Marvell
California-based lighting startup Soraa has launched an LED lamp that it says emits more light per LED material and can handle more electric current per area than its competitors products. The Soraa LED MR16 lamp ...
TVA Power Savings Could Come from Energy Efficient Appliances
The mass installation of such energy efficiency measures as compact fluorescent lighting and heating and cooling systems could effectively flatten Tennessee's power demand for the ...
Utility Asks for 15% Rate Hike; Efficiency Spend to Double
Utility Ameren Missouri is planning a 14.6 percent rate hike next year to reimburse investments in renewable energy, efficiency and reliability.
The subsidiary of Ameren ...
Siemens Launches Drive Train Savings Estimator
The Drive Technologies division of Siemens Industry Inc. has launched its online Energy Savings Estimator, a tool that allows companies using drives, motors, ...
Ensave, Ecology and Environment Launch Farm Energy Audits
EnSave and partner Ecology and Environment have launched an audit service for farm energy uses including tillage, harvesting, and waste management.
The Landscape Agricultural Energy ...
Power Assure Launches Data Center Management System
Data center energy management firm Power Assure Inc., has announced an integrated data center power monitoring and analytics system that it says improves the reliability and energy-efficientcy of data centers....
Lighting Briefing: Philips, Cummings Properties, Noribachi
Royal Philips Electronics saw a 70 percent increase in LED lighting sales in 2011, excluding LED chips, reports Optics.org. In the final quarter of ...
Building Management Briefing: EDF Energy Corps, Incenergy, Cylon, Atlanta Housing Authority
Boeing, Caesars Entertainment, DirectTV and National Geographic are among the first 20 companies to join the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps in 2012. The program ...
Schneider Electric Launches Cisco Product Pairings
Energy management firm Schneider Electric is broadening its range of energy management tools designed to marry up with Cisco products.
The company will demonstrate these future ...
Energy Managers: Efficiency Not Taken Seriously by Top Brass
Some 31 percent of British energy managers say energy efficiency is not being taken seriously by their bosses, according to a report by Siemens.
But the ...
Top Trends in Data Center Energy Management
The way large enterprises, government agencies and managed service providers analyze and utilize energy in their data centers will undergo some fairly ...
CA Technologies Updates Data Center, IT Energy Software
CA Technologies has announced new and enhanced offerings in its CA ecoSoftware, designed to further extend the company's support for data center infrastructure management ...
LNG Ferry to Manage Energy Use with ABB Software
A cruise ferry fueled by liquefied natural gas will use ABB software to manage its energy use.
STX Finland is building the NB 1376 ...
Business Could Save $173m with Compressed Air Improvements
Air compressors present a variety of opportunities for saving energy, from leak reduction and air intake improvements, to maintenance, monitoring, specification and design, ...
Energy-Efficient Windows Blamed for Melting Car
How does a green-minded person react when they suspect that their hybrid Toyota Prius is being melted by their neighbor's energy-efficient windows?
Building owners should perhaps ...
LG Launches Efficient HVAC Products
LG Electronics has announced energy efficiency improvements to to its HVAC products at the International Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Expo in Chicago.
The Multi V ...
Honda NA Hits Another CO2 Goal, a Year Late
Last year Honda met its 2010 goal of a 20 percent cut to CO2 from power equipment production, with a 27.2 percent drop from ...
EnTouch Launches Energy Monitor with Remote Access
EnTouch Controls has launched the GM8 Universal Energy Monitor, which works with its EnTouch Energy Management System (pictured) to provide facility energy data for small ...
IEA Lauds Energy Efficiency PPPs
Public private partnerships on energy efficiency projects are a good way to increase the pace of reduction of the energy intensity of an economy, ...
