Articles Tagged with ''energy efficiency''

Energy efficiency targets implemented in half of U.S. states in 2012 saved enough electricity to power 2 million homes for a year, reports the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).

Optimum Energy, a provider of data-driven HVAC energy optimization for enterprise facilities, has announced the launch of its OptiCx™ Platform. The company said the platform delivers holistic energy management with the option to start with “essential” energy optimization of HVAC systems.

Commercial buildings, in particular, consume large amounts of energy related to HVAC, water heating, lighting, and other building systems. Efforts to reduce energy consumption have led to increasing deployments of energy efficiency retrofits for commercial and public buildings.

Americans used more energy in 2013 than the prior year, according to the latest energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Americans had used less energy in 2012 and 2011 than the previous year, but that trend has been reversed.

The city of Chicago now recognizes ASHRAE’s Building Energy Assessment Professional (BEAP) certification as a data verifier credential under the city’s new Energy Benchmarking Ordinance.

The city of Toronto recently piloted a program that will allow residents in certain designated neighborhoods to get city-financed loans to improve their homes’ energy and water efficiency.

Honeywell and the U.S. Army have announced a $61 million modernization project at the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing Technology Center (JMTC). The project will support infrastructure improvements at the facility that are expected to cut energy use by approximately 35 percent.

The program will provide customers with an accessible, easy-to-understand rating of their home that can be combined with a comprehensive home energy audit. 

TIP Capital, a leader in equipment financing and asset management solutions, and Green Charge Networks (GCN), a provider of intelligent customer-sited energy storage, have announced a program to offer zero-down financing for GCN’s retail, municipal, and industrial customers.

ABM, a leading provider of facility solutions, has been selected by consumer electronics and appliance retailer BrandsMart USA® to complete a facility-wide energy conservation project that is expected to save its South Dade County, Fla., location 34 percent on its annual utility costs.