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Danish Island Serves as Testbed for Integrating Renewables into Grid

October 21, 2014 by John@digitalfireflymarketing.com

The biggest smart grid project in Europe – the EcoGrid pilot – is being conducted on the Danish island of Bornholm. The project is trying to coordinate the fluctuations in the price of electricity with the volume of renewable energy available at five minute intervals, reports PennEnergy. In order to ... Read more »

Distributed Energy Resources in NY: Evaluating Costs & Benefits

August 28, 2014 by John@digitalfireflymarketing.com

New York is changing how it evaluates and compensates electric utilities. One goal of this change is increased consumer engagement, which makes customers allies in the development of a more reliable, resilient, and smart electric grid. Many customers have begun taking advantage of new energy technologies and their falling prices ... Read more »

Colorado Beer Brewers Model Energy Efficiency

August 5, 2014 by John@digitalfireflymarketing.com

Colorado craft beer brewers are setting the bar when it comes to sustainability efforts, according to a Rocky Mountain Institute blog post. The post cites New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins and Left Hand Brewing Company in Longmont as particularly good examples of what beer brewers, as well as other energy-intensive industries, ... Read more »

Finding the True Energy Ecosystem

July 15, 2014 by John@digitalfireflymarketing.com

As the lights from 4th of July fireworks fade to distant memory and as today more than 3.2 billion viewers tuned in to watch the grand finale 2014 FIFA World Cup, it’s worth considering what exactly we were celebrating in between the beers and BBQs. The 4th represents more than ... Read more »

Energy Efficiency Myths Busted

July 1, 2014 by John@digitalfireflymarketing.com

Summer means barbeques, pool parties, and high energy bills. This is expensive and annoying on a personal level, but for business, it can be downright damaging. Peak demand and high energy costs join forces to sweat the bottom line for businesses around the world. Many businesses have accepted this as ... Read more »

Energy Efficiency Prospects Surge for Minnesota Utilities

June 23, 2014 by John@digitalfireflymarketing.com

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has rejected a nearly two-fold increase in fixed charges for CenterPoint Energy Resource’s residential customers, and ordered a mechanism – decoupling – for the gas utility that’s aimed at encouraging more energy savings for the state’s homes, businesses and industry. Last week’s ruling sets an ... Read more »

Comverge, Pro1 Deliver Thermostat with Demand Response

June 11, 2014 by John@digitalfireflymarketing.com

Comverge and Pro1 announced a partnership tied to Pro1’s launch of new WiFi thermostats. Via a “third-party device aggregation” approach, Pro1 will use Comverge‘s IntelliSOURCE software to provide thermostat management and energy efficiency benefits for Pro1’s customers while also enabling demand response capabilities for the device. Pro1 has millions of ... Read more »

Longer Life-Cycles & Price Pressure Push LED Manufacturers Towards Smart Lighting Control

May 28, 2014August 2, 2019 by Jennifer Hermes

For LEDs, the push into the building lighting market is well under way, driven by improving energy efficiency of the technology and a longevity that is almost unmatched by competing lighting technologies. Our analysis indicates that market penetration expressed in terms of overall revenue generation of lighting in buildings grew ... Read more »

China’s Smart Grid Spending Surpasses US

May 27, 2014 by William Opalka

For the first time, China outspent the United States in smart grid investments as global investment in smart grids increased by $700 million from $14.2 billion in 2012 to $14.9 billion in 2013, the Worldwatch Institute reports. China and the US accounted for more than half of the global spending ... Read more »

Smart Meters Might Disrupt WiFi

May 19, 2014September 23, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

A blogger at Smart Data Collective says electric smart meters rolled out by utilities may cause interference with WiFi. A Zigbee device within each smart meter sends a ping about every 30 seconds to communicate with other smart meters in the vicinity, creating a mesh network. If a WiFi router is ... Read more »

Nest Thermostat Reduces Peak Load 55%

May 16, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Nest Labs says in summer 2013, its Rush Hour Rewards program via its learning thermostat delivered an average of 55 percent energy reduction in residential air conditioning loads during peak times, while its Seasonal Savings program helped customers lower their overall air conditioning runtime by 4.7 percent. Nest found that ... Read more »

Implementing Smart Solutions for Electric Vehicle Scale-up and Integration

May 8, 2014 by Jennifer Hermes

Moving towards Smart urban solutions Big data, “smart,” and the Internet of Things (IoT) are in the limelight of public perception. They hold a promise that through connecting everything with everyone and the application of intelligent response management, significant strides can be made towards sustainability. At the urban level, typical ... Read more »

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