Energy Manager Today Videos
Building Control & Automation That Meets You Where You’re At
In this new video, Transformative Wave explains how the CATALYST can meet your needs at every stage of your journey towards energy efficiency and control. Not only can it simply and intelligently improve HVAC efficiency by reducing energy costs up to 50%, but it can integrate with existing or legacy ... Read more »
IBM Tests Heat-Pump Cooling of Data Centers
IBM is working on a data center cooling system dubbed Thrive, which relies on a heat pump. The aim of the Thrive Project is to identify application scenarios for thermally driven heat pumps for heating and cooling in Switzerland. It will also develop heat pump technology with minimal electricity requirements ... Read more »
Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Ambient Air
Carbon Engineering is working on the industrial-scale capture of CO2 from ambient air. This video explains the technology behind the direct capture of CO2 from the atmosphere and what Carbon Engineering is doing to commercialize air capture.
District Energy Development in Pittsburgh
Grant Ervin, sustainability manager for the city of Pittsburgh, talks about district energy as an economic benefit in the city’s new real estate developments. In July, the city of Pittsburgh signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the US Department of Energy to develop a clean energy plan focused on ... Read more »
Community Microgrids for a Sustainable Future – TEDx Talk
Dr. Avnaesh Jayantilal talks about the future of microgrids and how they will shape the world economy. Jayantilal joined Alstom Grid in 1999 and is currently Activity Director assisting electric utilities in enhancing grid operations and resiliency, business process optimization and customer satisfaction. Jayantilal is a Senior Member of the ... Read more »
CHP Plus Emergency Power at Senior Center
Villa Charities installed a Combined Heat and Emergency Power (CHeP) System at its Villa Colombo Vaughan Seniors Centre in Ontario, Canada, in 2006. The video explains how the natural gas CHeP system works for the facility.
Missouri S&T’s Microgrid Research Project
Four neighbors share their generated solar power at Missouri University of Science and Technology’s microgrid research project. The microgrid also powers a resident’s electric car and tests energy technology that could be used in future communities.
NC College Uses Combined Heat and Power
NC State is using a combined heat and power system to generate electricity on a large scale. The system allows the University to demand less energy from the local power company and significantly reduce its electrical consumption and utility costs.
Black & Veatch World Headquarters Microgrid
Black & Veatch created an onsite microgrid at its company headquarters in Kansas. The 200-kW microgrid provides the ability to island the system from the grid. The microgrid produces about 1,300 MWh of power per year, 12.5 percent of the commercial building’s average annual energy demand.
Creating Energy with Footsteps via Solar Tiles
Shell LiveWIRE helped fund a project to install solar/kinetic tiles on a soccer field in Brazil. The footsteps from the soccer players power the lights for the field. The Pavegen tiles work alongside solar panels to power the lights for up to 10 hours on a full battery.
LEDs Light Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
OSRAM SYLVANIA donated and installed more than 1,000 LED lamps to retrofit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. The installation will allow the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and its sustainable energy partner, Big Green Zero, to reduce its energy expenses and carbon footprint, as well as provide public education about the ... Read more »