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Automated Demand Response Comes to San Antonio

March 28, 2014August 2, 2019 by William Opalka

What may be the largest automated demand response (ADR) program by a municipal utility is coming to San Antonio as Honeywell and CPS Energy embark on a two-year program after a successful pilot last year. The utility will use technology and services from Honeywell to connect and collaborate with commercial and ... Read more »

Honeywell Implements $61M ESPC for Arsenal

March 21, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

The Army’s Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center in Illinois broke ground on a $61 million infrastructure modernization project that will cut energy use by about 35 percent and generate up to $5.3 million in annual energy and operational savings. The project will save nearly 5.5 million kWh each ... Read more »

Honeywell Upgrades Building Management System

March 13, 2014August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Honeywell has updated its building management system Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) by simplifying setup, scheduling and control. The latest version of EBI addresses the growing trend for building automated systems to be merged and managed across the enterprise network, providing a more comprehensive view of all equipment and activity. The ... Read more »

OpenADR Top of Mind at DistribuTECH

March 10, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Automated demand response (ADR) was a hot topic at the recent DistribuTECH conference in San Antonio, according to Smart Grid News. It’s not just vendors that focus on demand response from the utility perspective that consider the business ripe with opportunities; there is also a whole new breed of energy ... Read more »

Water District Saves $523,000 in Annual Energy Costs

February 13, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

The East Valley Water District (EVWD) of Highland, Calif., is working with Honeywell on a combined energy conservation and automated demand response (ADR) program. When complete, the project is expected to reduce annual energy costs by $523,000. The project will be financed through a 10-year, $4-million energy savings performance contract ... Read more »

IPPC Endorses Honeywell’s Low-Global Warming Car Refrigerant

February 4, 2014March 12, 2020 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has confirmed that Honeywell’s low-global-warming automobile refrigerant, HFO-1234yf, has a global warming potential (GWP) that is less than one, below that of carbon dioxide. GWP is a relative measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere (see table). IPCC ... Read more »

Honeywell, Stor Generation Connect with Building Owners in UK

February 3, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

Honeywell and power management company Stor Generation have launched a smart grid program in the UK where Stor Generation will pay facility owners to lower consumption when the call for electricity starts to outpace what power plants and renewable resources are able to produce. Honeywell will work with these organizations ... Read more »

Green Fleet Roundup: Honda, Nissan, London Cabs, Ford

January 24, 2014January 24, 2014 by Leon Walker

Rossi Honda of Vineland, NJ, has become the US’ first and only dealer to achieve “electric grid neutral” status. This means the dealership produces as much as or more energy from renewable sources than it consumes from its local electric utility over a one-year period. Honeywell has entered into a supply ... Read more »

Whirlpool Partners with Honeywell on Low-Global-Warming Insulation

January 23, 2014March 12, 2020 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Whirlpool is using Honeywell’s low-global-warming potential (GWP) foam blowing agent in insulation in its US-made refrigerators and freezers. The GWP of Honeywell’s Solstice Liquid Blowing Agent is 99 percent lower than 245fa, the most common foam blowing agent widely used within the US industry. Honeywell’s foam blowing agent has a GWP ... Read more »

Boeing Project Harvests Biofuel from Desert Plants

January 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Boeing and research partners in the United Arab Emirates are collaborating on a project to test desert plants fed by seawater called halophytes, which the partners say will produce aviation biofuel more efficiently than other feedstocks. The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), affiliated with the Masdar Institute of Science and ... Read more »

Honeywell Refit to Cut Army Arsenal Energy Use

January 23, 2014 by Leon Walker

Honeywell and the US Army have announced a $61-million infrastructure modernization project at the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing Technology Center that will cut energy use by approximately 35 percent, and generate up to $5.3 million in annual energy and operational savings. The Army launched the technology center upgrades through ... Read more »

Honeywell Plans $300M Climate-Friendly Coolant Plant

December 17, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Honeywell plans to invest about $300 million to increase production capacity for HFO-1234yf, a low-global-warming refrigerant for cars, including building a commercial manufacturing plant in Louisiana for the air conditioning refrigerant. HFO-1234yf has a global-warming potential (GWP) of less than 1. This GWP is 99.9 percent lower than that of ... Read more »

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