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Kettering City Schools Receive $116,618 Energy Efficiency Rebate

March 9, 2015August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

The Dayton Power and Light Company (DP&L), a subsidiary of AES Corporation, presented Kettering City Schools in Ohio with an energy efficiency rebate of $116,618 for a project that upgraded lighting in buildings across the district. With guidance from DP&L, Kettering City Schools installed higher energy efficient lighting and occupancy ... Read more »

Virginia Tech Awarded $2M to Continue BAS R&D

March 9, 2015 by Karen Henry

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the Virginia Polytechnic and State University Advanced Research Institute nearly $2 million to continue research and development of its Building Energy Management Open Source Software (BEMOSS) for small and medium-sized commercial buildings. Currently, small and medium commercial buildings account for over 95 ... Read more »

Off-the-Shelf Demand Response for Commercial Buildings

March 6, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Powerit Solutions introduced Spara Go, a demand response product designed for experienced facility engineers who need to manage commercial buildings, campus applications or smaller industrial sites with less energy-intensive loads than a typical Spara installation. Spara Go still has the full demand control, demand response and dynamic pricing functionality of ... Read more »

Smart Sensor Could Cut Building Energy Consumption by 30%

March 4, 2015 by Karen Henry

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are developing a low-cost wireless sensor that could make regulating comfort in small commercial buildings more efficient and less expensive. Studies indicate that advanced sensors and controls have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of buildings by ... Read more »

Time-Variant Electricity Pricing Offers Benefits, So Why Isn’t It Widespread?

March 3, 2015 by Jennifer Hermes

Today, most residential electricity customers are charged the same price regardless of when the electricity is actually being used. Charging customers a uniform price for electric service looks a bit like buying groceries by the cart instead of by the items purchased (e.g., apples versus filet mignon) – simple, to ... Read more »

Green Button Alliance Launched

February 9, 2015 by Karen Henry

The Green Button Alliance (GBA) has been formed to advance the Green Button initiative and will facilitate standards-based application development, administer certification and testing programs and create awareness among consumers to accelerate adoption of the Green Button standard. Founding members of the Green Button Alliance include London Hydro, Schneider Electric, ... Read more »

GEM Energy Retrofits Two 100-Year-Old Toledo Buildings

January 16, 2015August 2, 2019 by Karen Henry

GEM Energy has completed energy upgrades for the Toledo School for the Arts and the Toledo Club. Both buildings will turn 100 this year. The Toledo School for the Arts Completed in 55 days, the Toledo School for the Arts’ energy upgrades included replacing 1950s HVAC equipment throughout the building ... Read more »

Need to Manage Electricity Use? There’s an App for That

January 15, 2015 by Karen Henry

Fort Collins, Colo., is on track to become the first city in the United States to use Energy Engage Mobile, a new Web-based smartphone application for monitoring electricity consumption in near real time. The app displays current energy use, current cost of energy, the projected bill for the current month ... Read more »

Clean Energy Investment Rebounds in 2014

January 14, 2015 by Karen Henry

Global clean energy investment rebounded strongly in 2014, with investments totalling $310 billion, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Boosted by demand for large-scale and rooftop solar PV and by the financing of a record $19.4 billion of offshore wind projects, clean energy investment in 2014 was up 16 percent ... Read more »

Smart Building Predictions for 2015

January 13, 2015 by Jennifer Hermes

Over the last few years companies have developed and demonstrated driverless car technology; Google, Audi, BMW and dozens of other companies and universities have been involved. With the use of cameras, sensors, “decision and driving strategy and logic,” traffic sign recognition, pedestrian spotting and lane departure warnings, many but not all of ... Read more »

Commercial BAS Market to Exceed $86B by 2023

December 19, 2014August 2, 2019 by Karen Henry

According to a new report from Navigant Research, global revenue for commercial building automation systems (BAS) is expected to grow from $59.3 billion annually in 2013 to $86.7 billion in 2023. At the beginning of 2014, Navigant released a report projecting the BAS market to reach $34 billion by 2021. ... Read more »

California Resort Saves More than $300,000 in Energy Costs

December 17, 2014 by Karen Henry

Infrastructure upgrades at Pacific Palms Resort in City of Industry, California, have generated first-year energy and operational savings of more than $540,000, including nearly $343,000 in energy costs and $203,000 in operational costs. The resort also gained an additional $500,000 in one-time rebates from electrical and gas companies. In recognition ... Read more »

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