Jennifer Hermes, Author at Environment + Energy Leader

Key Steps to Making Industrial Energy Management Work to Save More Money

April 10, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Managing energy can be one of the most rewarding and quantifiable components of business sustainability. However, when trying to start and sustain an energy management program, many businesses encounter challenges like insufficient allocation of resources, lack of an energy team to share the work, and poor understanding of energy and ... Read more »

Getting Reporting Right: Tips for Solving for Gaps in Your Energy and Sustainability Data

April 9, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Gaps in reported energy and sustainability data are a common challenge.These gaps are the result of leased locations where utility bills are paid indirectly, or can be the result of insufficient or nonexistent data collection systems and processes. Solving for gaps is critical to getting internal and external sustainability reporting ... Read more »

Court of Appeals Rejects Petitions for Review of FERC’s Decision on Mobile-Sierra Applicability to Forward Capacity Auction Rates

April 8, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its opinion in New England Power Generators Association, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Case No. 11-1422 (D.C. Cir. Feb. 15, 2013) (NEPGA). In that case, the Court reviewed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s determinations regarding the applicability ... Read more »

Achieving Energy Proportionality in Data Centers

April 4, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

In a recent article titled Power, Pollution and the Internet, The New York Times investigated a well-known and persistent problem: “Most data centers, by design, consume vast amounts of energy in an incongruously wasteful manner, interviews and documents show. Online companies typically run their facilities at maximum capacity around the ... Read more »

Unintended Benefit: Utility Incentives Drive Smart Building Technology Adoption

April 3, 2013August 2, 2019 by Jennifer Hermes

It’s no secret that utility incentives play a role in underwriting many energy efficiency projects in North America. With ever-increasing energy requirements, efficiency incentives are frequently used by utilities to help customers implement measures that reduce overall demand. While it may seem counter-intuitive that the entities that are selling power ... Read more »

Energy Data Management for the ‘ISO 50001 Mind-Set’

April 2, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

ISO 50001 follows the Deming cycle (plan-do-check-act) to help organizations plan, implement, maintain and improve an Energy Management System (EnMS). For large energy using organizations, energy data is most often managed in an Energy Management Information System (EMIS). In a previous article EnMS and EMIS: What’s the Difference?, Dr. Paul ... Read more »

Five Best Practices to Boost Data Center Efficiency

April 1, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Industry giant, Google recently opened the doors to its once top secret data centers. The company relies on several large-scale data centers and smaller network point of presences (POPs) to deliver its web services and has spent more than a decade working to improve its energy efficiency. Whether you’re running ... Read more »

Energy Management – America at the Crossroads

March 27, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

The need for deriving financial value from under-utilized resources, for cost savings in energy consumption, and the necessity of fulfilling each organizations bottom line objectives are driving American companies to take action. Before the backdrop of rising energy costs, “energy efficiency” has become a major topic on the agenda from ... Read more »

Making Energy Easy Again

March 26, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

This is the first in a new series of articles on energy management, where I’ll share ideas from more than a dozen years in the deregulated energy market trenches and more than $40 billion in successful energy commodity transactions. Today, whether I am talking energy with the C-suite or the ... Read more »

3 Keys to Achieving Utility Rebates for Energy Efficiency Upgrades

March 25, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Eager to lower operating costs and meet corporate objectives, many of today’s data center operators are implementing highly energy efficient technologies. What some don’t know, however, is that the rewards of being energy efficient can go far beyond savings on monthly energy bills. Numerous electrical utilities are offering financial rebates ... Read more »

Cellulosic Biofuels Begin to Flow but in Lower Volumes than Foreseen

March 20, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Note: Initial commercial scale facilities are expected to produce between 10 and 30 million gallons of biofuel. As yields improve and producers take advantage of economies of scale, this could grow to 50 or 100 million gallons. Several companies combined to produce about 20,000 gallons ... Read more »

Graphene Micro Supercapacitors Are a Breakthrough in Energy Storage

March 18, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Imagine plugging in your smartphone for thirty seconds and then continuing the rest of your day with a fully charged phone. Then imagine plugging in your electric vehicle for less time it takes to fill up a standard gas tank before running a day’s worth of errands on that single ... Read more »

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