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Efficiency embraces both suppliers and end users. Generation facilities use 5 to 6 percent of the electricity they produce to power their own operations. Transmission losses drain off an additional 2 to 3 percent, while distribution accounts for an additional loss of 5 to 6 percent. Fortunately, the industry is aggressively exploring ways to increase its own efficiency while rolling out programs to help end users do the same. Scroll down to learn more about both sides of this topic.
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A group of academic researchers, two national laboratories and participants from the private sector will get up to $122 million from the DOE over the next five years to develop and demonstrate technologies designed to make buildings more energy efficient. |
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A Texas electric utility believes customers really do want smart energy efficiency devices in their homes and businesses and plans to install 100,000 of them by 2012. |
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Renewable energy contributes a tiny fraction of electricity generation resources, but a Nexant executive argues that would change dramatically if more energy efficiency programs were added to the mix.
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The Energy Department awarded $92 million to projects that will focus on accelerating green technology innovation, increasing U.S. competitiveness in grid-scale energy storage, power electronics and building efficiency. |
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Technology expert Erich W. Gunther reviews the TED 5000 home energy monitoring device from The Energy Detective. The TED 5000 uses a hardware-based gateway that receives signals from the voltage and current sensors and makes the data available through a built-in web interface. Click inside to read why it scores only 74 out of 100 on the SGN Smart Grid Scorecard. |
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One of the key customer benefits of SmartMeterâ„¢ technology is to help customers better manage their energy use and keep their costs down. This PG&E video highlights the latest SmartMeterâ„¢-enabled web capability - a no-cost energy usage notification feature called Energy Alerts. |
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A high-powered task force has formed to help guide California's energy efficiency efforts and Smart Grid technology rollouts and better educate consumers on the importance of the technologies to the state's environmental sustainability and conservation goals. |
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The Energy Department will award more than $76 million in Recovery Act money to support development of innovative technologies to increase building energy efficiency and cost effectiveness and related training programs. |
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DOE has selected 20 communities and local organizations to receive a total of $60 million in Recovery Act funds for local energy efficiency and renewable energy programs to reduce energy consumption by homes, businesses and vehicles. |
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No one company has the full picture when it comes to home energy management. When it comes to the customer engagement and participation piece, however, OPOWER has the mind share lead, and the biggest number of on-the-ground installations, as this guest article by Sheldon Reiffenstein explains. |
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The recent announcement that a wireless electric load controller has completed Zigbee Smart Energy certification testing also gives us news on a larger scale: Smart energy device testing is blasting off as a global Smart Grid industry.
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With big guns like Google and Microsoft and scores of others competing in the home energy management space at the same time billions of dollars are going into Smart Grid and smart meter deployments, Pike Research says the onus will be on utilities to offer customers the energy information devices they’ll use to monitor consumption. |
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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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A Caribbean energy consultant has launched a free Web application that promotes energy efficiency and conservation through a social media format. |
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Consumers are unwilling to let electric utilities remotely control when they can use their appliances as part of an electricity management program without substantial discounts in their power bills. That finding is the result of a global survey by Accenture. |
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The state of Massachusetts has awarded energy management applications company EnerNOC a $10 million, three-year contract to improve energy efficiency in 470 state buildings. The Recovery Act stimulus funded project is expected to result in energy savings of 5 to 15% when completed. |
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This study reviews traditional approaches used to evaluate electric utility energy efficiency and smart grid programs and presents an agent-based end-use modeling approach that resolves many of the shortcomings of traditional approaches. Data for a representative sample of utility customers in a Midwestern US utility are used to evaluate energy efficiency and smart grid program targets over a 15-year horizon. |
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This white paper provides policy-makers, regulators, and private sector firms engaged in the design and implementation of efficiency programs with a series of innovative financing options that can be used to achieve comprehensive energy savings across a broad spectrum of residential, commercial, and industrial market segments. This includes options to augment existing efficiency initiatives at the utility, state, and federal levels by offering energy end-users a set of specific financing solutions that are customized for EE. |
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While modest in size, a TVA pilot project could tell the utility a lot about how customers would respond to energy efficiency and conservation and peak demand reduction measures that could become an integral part of the Smart Grid. |
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A new government lab report says Smart Grid technologies could reduce energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by up to 18% in 20 years if they are thoroughly implemented. |
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The Energy Department has selected 17 projects to get a total of $37 million for high-efficiency solid-state lighting core research, product development and U.S. manufacturing. The impact could be substantial because lighting accounts for about a quarter of the electricity used in the country. |
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The makers of a variety of household appliances are required to certify with the Energy Department that their products meet the agency's minimum appliance conservation standards. DOE is putting pressure on those manufacturers to comply or face civil penalties or fines. |
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The DOE has awarded $47 million in Recovery Act money to develop ways to improve energy efficiency in the flourishing information technology and communications technology sectors. Some of the award winners may surprise you. |
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New York City has hundreds of thousands of buildings which are responsible for 79% of the city's greenhouse gas emissions. But the City Council this week approved a law requiring owners of large buildings to conduct energy audits and perform environmental tune-ups. Activists call it one of the most aggressive efforts of its kind in the country. |
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When the tiny rural Kansas plains town of Greenburg was flattened by a tornado in 2007, its residents promised to rebuild and transform it into a green and sustainable community. The DOE is offering a free webinar on Tuesday, Dec. 15, on how Greenburg is being rebuilt as a model green community. |
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