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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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Here’s an interesting partnership: The Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Korean Smart Grid Association and two of South Korea's largest energy and technologies to create a virtual generator using Chicago commercial buildings as electric grid resources. The goal is to provide more effective energy management and cost savings. |
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Cisco's Connected Grid portfolio just got bigger with the announcement of new home energy management and smart building technologies. |
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GridPoint will install energy management systems in up to 2,250 U.S. Postal Service locations throughout the country to support the agency's push to reduce its energy consumption. |
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Honeywell took a major leap forward when it announced earlier this month it will acquire Akuacom, a California DR technology and services firm. Lux Research senior analyst Michael LoCascio says the move marks the beginning of an industry consolidation that will see a handful of winners emerge from the DR segment. He offers some insights on who they will be. |
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HAI has developed a mobile application that enables users to manage home and business energy use with an Apple iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. |
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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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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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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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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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This paper examines how utilities and the energy efficiency industry can design and implement a smart grid that achieves greater energy savings. While many years of research and development have focused on smart grid technologies, there is a gap in the awareness of how energy savings fits in. The author begins with an overview of the smart grid and its relation to energy savings, then discusses the hurdles for buildings to be able to interact with a smart grid. Next she emphasizes four ways in which energy savings can be achieved using smart grid infrastructure, and concludes with challenges and policy recommendations. |
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This paper deals with the role of home (and small building) electronic systems and premises equipment in the evolution of the smart grid. It is there, at the end-point or delivery-point of the grid, where the actual use as well as potentially also generation and storage of electricity occurs. |
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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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