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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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Intwine Energy, a leader in the development of Internet connected smart-grid products for both utilities and retail customers, today announced the adoption of its WiFi thermostat technology into Case Western Reserve University's Case Connection Zone pilot research project. The IECT220 and the IECT 210 Intwine WiFi Thermostat, as well as a beta version of the Intwine Energy WiFi Connected Whole-House Power Monitor, which includes the Blueline Innovations sensor, and Smart Plug, have been successfully demonstrated to researchers and will be installed into a beta community. |
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BPL Global®, Ltd. (BPLG), a smart grid technology company dedicated to leading the transformation of energy efficiency and reliability, has been awarded a public tender in Angouleme by private housing landlord Vilogia Horizon to improve energy efficiency of 33 of their buildings with more than 1,000 apartments. Vilogia Horizon is a subsidiary of the Vilogia group which manages 75,000 apartments in France. The landlord will see building energy consumption reduced while tenants save money on their utility bills and everyone will benefit from the reduction in carbon emissions and improved environmental impact. |
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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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Dr. Paul MacGregor, Senior Vice President, Clean Energy Markets for Nexant, Inc. (www.nexant.com), has examined key provisions of pending federal energy legislation that would set the stage for the creation of a national energy efficiency market. Here, he outlines the context for this initiative and comments on its significance.
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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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PowerSecure International, Inc. today announced it has established a partnership with Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, to bring its Interactive Distributed Generation® smart grid power systems to hospitals. |
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GE today unveiled Nucleus™, an affordable, innovative communication and data storage device that provides consumers with secure information about their household electricity use and costs so they can make more informed choices about how and when to use power. |
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People hoping to observe energy efficiency leadership in action may want to take a trip to their local healthcare facility. According to new research from the American Society for Healthcare Engineering and Johnson Controls, healthcare organizations are more likely to invest in energy efficiency for their facilities compared to other industry sectors across North America. |
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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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A recent consumer survey from IMS Research found that over half of respondents consider displaying current electricity usage information in their homes ‘very useful’. Over 90% considered it ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ useful. |
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One of the key customer benefits of SmartMeter™ technology is to help customers better manage their energy use and keep their costs down. This PG&E video highlights the latest SmartMeter™-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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EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency focused on energy and the environment, released its fifth Project Energy Code report titled, “Nudges for Energy Conservation,” written by Dean Karlan, Professor of Economics, Yale University. |
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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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S&C Electric Company, a leader in integrating renewable energy sources into the grid, today received a Green Industry Business Development Program Grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) for its testing facility, located in the Rogers Park neighborhood. To recognize S&C’s groundbreaking Advanced Technology Center (ATC) and the resulting efficiency the company now has in product development, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn personally delivered the news today and met with company executives and employees. |
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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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DuPont Training Solutions powered by Coastal announces the release of the DuPont™ Energy Efficiency e-learning series. The 16 online courses are designed to help industrial facilities around the world improve energy efficiency and profitability and are now available for free demonstration. |
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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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Consumers are not willing to allow electricity providers to remotely limit the use of their home appliances as part of electricity management plans without significant rate discounts, according to a report issued today by Accenture (NYSE: ACN). The report also found that almost half of consumers would be deterred from joining electricity management programs if their electricity bills were to increase as a result. |
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Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced two separate, three-year contracts with Progress Energy to manage and deliver energy efficiency programs for residential customers in North and South Carolina. The Home Energy Improvement and Neighborhood Energy Saver programs will help customers save energy and money through a variety of measures, including home energy assessments, education services and rebates for efficiency improvements.
The programs will target more than 1.4 million Progress Energy residential customers across 34,000 square miles in the Carolinas. Under the contract, Honeywell will provide training, marketing and customer service support to drive enrollment.
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With little fanfare, the San Luis Valley has already become the best model for distributed renewable energy generation in the West and maybe even the Nation.
When the first energy crisis shook ...