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Building automation systems monitor and control a building's lighting and mechanical systems. They operate in roughly half of all buildings of over 100,000 square feet in the U.S. Those systems are now being wired to talk to utilities, so the owners and occupants can participate in demand response and energy efficiency programs. Things are changing at light speed, as the links in this section attest.
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An international open standards consortium has brought its big guns to bear on sustainable Smart Grid standards in energy, intelligent buildings and natural resources. Several technical committees under OASIS Blue will coordinate the standards efforts. |
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Smart Grid Solutions from lighting control manufacturer Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. were recently displayed at the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC) open house on January 20th, 2010. |
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Exele Information Systems, an industry leader in alarm management, notification and remote monitoring software has announced major enhancements to their TopView® software suite with the release of v6.7. New features include SMS notification via GSM modem, SQL Server alarm logging and alarm history integration with the alarm displays. |
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The video looks at how improving building efficiency by deploying control networking infrastructure can save significant amounts of money and lower energy needs. |
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Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), leading manufacturer of integrated security and home automation products since 1985, announced that the integration with Zektor is complete, and a Connectivity Partnership has been formed. |
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California startup iControl plans to combine energy management features with its home security software in an effort to break into the home energy management sector. |
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Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), leading manufacturer of integrated security and home automation products has announced the improved integration between HAI's Lumina central lighting and home automation product line and Tyco's DSC PowerSeries security panels, allowing Touchscreen control and energy management. |
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From the Summit on Energy Efficiency, November, 2009, Igor Mezic, Jack Sahl and Jeffrey Reed explore smart design for buildings. Buildings in the US cause 48% of carbon emissions and are responsible for 71% of U.S. electricity consumption. How can the situation be improved and lower energy costs? |
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French-based giant Schneider Electric is a leader in automation, backup power, and circuit breakers. Now, with a global recession forcing changes, it hopes to become an important player in the Smart Grid arena. Can it succeed? |
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The Secretary of Energy has identified several areas that constitute critical barriers to achieving national energy and climate goals while proving the most resistant to solutions by usual enterprise R&D. To overcome these barriers, the Department of Energy plans to launch eight "Energy Innovation Hubs" in fiscal year 2010, with each hub focusing on the a single problems. These hubs include fuels from sunlight, nuclear fuel management, energy efficient building systems, batteries and energy storage, solar electricity, novel carbon capture and storage, modeling and simulation for nuclear reactors, and electrical grid systems. This document provides an overview of the hubs and answers several common questions about their purpose, selection, funding, and management. |
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Despite being a major grid supplier, Siemens has been sleepy and slow in the years leading up to the Smart Grid tipping point. But there are signs that may be changing. Is Siemens ready to exploit its advantages and exert leadership on Smart Grid issues? |
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NetApp saw an opportunity to significantly reduce energy consumption at its headquarters, which has 1.2 million square feet of space in 10 buildings. |
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ACCIONA has constructed over 1,100 eco-efficient homes, and has built the first Zero Emissions commercial building in Spain.This document is a case study of that Zero Emissions. |
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A 106-page technical research paper that examines the role of energy storage technologies in microgrids. The goal was to find the optimal equipment configuration for microgrids in commercial buildings. The paper builds upon LBNL's DER-CAM capabilities (Distributed Energy Resources - Customer Adoption Model). Highly technical. |
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A six-page summary of the results of retrofitting two government buildings with demand-response equipment to participate in a PG&E program that provides incentive payments. The project replaced all existing thermostats with wireless thermostats from Cypress Envirosystems. Although this case study was produced by the vendor, it provides an interesting overview of the savings possible by using wireless instead of wired thermostats. |
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Diagram and tables for smart grid technology solutions for both residential and commercial applications and include solutions from the Home Area Network back to the Utility Infrastructure. |
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A new energy ecosystem is emerging that connects smart, green buildings with a smart, green grid to optimize energy flows. This represents a significant opportunity for energy efficiency and mass-scale renewable generation. But creating a new, green energy ecosystem requires linking today’s heavily "stove piped" separate systems within buildings, as well creating linking between buildings and the grid. It also means expanding the definition of green buildings to include the digital smarts that connect diverse systems. The recent Green Intelligent Buildings Conference focused on ways to cut through "stovepipes" and build those new linkages. |
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This 10-page white paper argues that utilities must move to automated demand response in place of older "manual" load management programs, particularly in the energy-intensive industrial sector. Although written by a vendor, this is a well-researched piece that sheds light on the need to -- and the techniques for -- shedding "fundamental loads" such as refrigeration, pumps and material handling systems. The recommended solution is an extension of factory automation that connects many loads, decides which subsets will be used to respond and makes decisions based on preset rules. |
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In this video, a tour of a 'green' office building work site demonstrates the features that will save up to 40% of energy costs as compared to more traditional building design. |
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Datacard Group’s new energy management system connects the building’s systems, manages their operations and resolves employees’comfort complaints. An impressive $50,000 (nearly 9 percent) in annual energy savings, plus Xcel Energy’s rebate means that the improvements will pay for themselves in less than four years. |
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This 188-page report is an exhaustive look at the many new ways to give electric power customers more visibility and more control. It discusses necessary pricing and policy changes such as dynamic pricing. It describes tools such as Web portals and smart appliances. And it presents various scenarios for encouraging widespread adoption of customer-centric systems. |
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