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Linda Hardesty

Linda Hardesty is the managing editor of Energy Manager Today. Shas been a trade journalist since the mid-1990s, alternately writing about cable television and environmental issues. She's worked for Cable World magazine, Communications Technology and Colorado Green Business. She can be reached at 970.377.9505 x 13 or linda@energymanagertoday.com.

Smart Grid Executives Rate ‘Reducing Peak Energy Consumption’ a Top Priority

A Zpryme survey of 223 smart grid executives conducted in September reveals that 24 percent of respondents rated reducing peak energy consumption as their top justification for investing in the deployment of smart meters and other advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). Other top justifications for investing in AMI were to reduce ... Read more »

MaxLite Upgrades Edge Lit LED Flat Panels

MaxLite introduced new Edge Lit LED Flat Panels featuring second generation LEDs that meet the standards of the DesignLights Consortium with better energy efficiency, approaching 100 lumens per watt. Designed as energy efficient alternatives to traditional fluorescent fixtures for lay in or T-grid ceilings, the new LED Flat Panels are ... Read more »

Tire Plant Achieves 10.1% Energy Reduction Over 3 Years

Cooper Tire’s Texarkana, Ark., plant received Gold level certification from the US Department of Energy for achieving a 10.1 percent energy savings improvement over three years. Cooper Tire Plant Engineer Craig Lloyd said the savings in the 2-million-sq-foot plant were achieved through a variety of means, including lighting upgrades, optimizing ... Read more »

Sentry Electric’s LEDs Light Up Sacred Heart Academy

Sentry Electric has provided 35 single and multi-head poles to Sacred Heart Academy of Hempstead, NY. Working in conjunction with Cameron Engineering of Woodbury, NY, Sentry devised a comprehensive lighting plan for several types of areas on the campus, including the driveway, parking area, student drop-off area, and various pathways. ... Read more »

Ohio Utility Tempts Small Businesses With HVAC, Lighting Incentives

AEP Ohio, a unit of American Electric Power, is revitalizing its Small Business Express program and has awarded a three-year contract to Lime Energy to operate the energy efficiency program. It targets small commercial customers with annual consumption of less than 200,000 kWh and provide incentives to help offset the ... Read more »

Microsoft Uses Fuel Cell, Biogas to Power Data Center Energy Research Project

Microsoft’s data center research project in Cheyenne, Wyoming, will be powered by a fuel cell power plant from FuelCell Energy. The power plant will utilize renewable biogas generated by a wastewater treatment facility as the fuel source. This sub-megawatt power plant project enables Microsoft to evaluate the effectiveness of fuel ... Read more »

Maine Sets Up $3.4 Million Fund for Multi-Family Retrofits

A new Efficiency Maine program offers incentives for smaller multi-family buildings. The Multifamily Efficiency Program, which was launched in July with a goal of completing 1,800 retrofit projects by September 2013, is available for multifamily residences with 5 to 20 units regardless of income level or fuel type. This program ... Read more »

Solar Technology Boils Water in Radically Different Way

Rice University scientists unveiled a new technology that uses nanoparticles to convert solar energy directly into steam. The new solar steam method from Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics can even produce steam from icy cold water. The technology has an overall energy efficiency of 24 percent compared to photovoltaic solar panels, ... Read more »

Prologis Taps San Francisco’s PACE Financing

The corporate headquarters of Prologis at San Francisco’s Pier 1 will be the first commercial energy efficiency upgrade funded through the city’s GreenFinanceSF program that uses Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bond financing, according to Johnson Controls, which will design and implement the project. Johnson Controls expects the retrofit project at ... Read more »


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