Intelligent energy storage provider Ice Energy will work with indoor comfort systems and services provider Trane to create energy storage-compatible, high-efficiency air conditioning solutions for commercial customers.
What to do about energy-hungry commercial buildings? DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will team up with a big box store chain, a university, the U.S. Army, the Job Corps and others to retrofit existing buildings or design new ones to dramatically ramp up energy efficiency.
Silicon Valley Power will use Tropos Network's private wireless communications network, AMI systems and integration services for its SVP Meter Connect smart grid program.
Schneider Electric's acquisition of two companies specializing in building management technologies adds depth to the global energy management company's building management solution for end users and property owners.
DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will get some outside help in managing its wide-ranging portfolio of activities in the form of a volunteer advisory committee of experts from a variety of disciplines, including industry, education, regulation and science.
An alliance of clean tech organizations have formed U-Launch to provide commercialization assistance for early-stage start-ups and university-originated clean energy technologies.
The Electric Power Research Institute has been conducting research on street and area lighting to try to find a brighter, more energy efficient source of illumination. And the R&D outfit is getting more than a little help from a pretty bright robot.
Five years after being pummeled by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, the future for New Orleans schools looks a lot brighter, and greener, thanks to a lot of help from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and federal disaster money.
The Bureau of Land Management has hired energy efficiency solutions provider Ameresco to deal with thousands of energy invoices and help the agency reduce energy costs and consumption with a bureau-wide energy management information system.
Energy efficiency in commercial and industrial buildings has finally stepped into the spotlight as owners and service and product suppliers realize there's a lot of energy (and money) to be saved and, in many cases, a new source of revenue to boot.
Cisco, Duke Energy and Charlotte City Center Partners are joining forces to make commercial buildings in Charlotte's urban core area more energy efficient with a combination of digital smart grid and building automation technologies.
In a recent report on energy efficiency, new markets and jobs creation, the Center for American Progress identified what it calls the "Top 10 Energy Efficiency States," those states most active in using smart energy policies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We're getting mixed signals about the vitality of the smart grid market. On the one hand, the recent DistribuTECH conference was one of the most successful ever. On the other, a well-known Wall Street analyst recently told his clients that the smart metering sector is "facing several headwinds," including weak regulatory support in the U.S. and delays in European adoption. Taking the pulse of the smart grid industry is this week's Tuesday Topic.
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