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The Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) has awarded a contract to TDIndustries for the implementation of a pilot program to monitor and report on electricity use in AAFES stores in the United States and abroad.

GridPoint, a provider of data-driven energy management systems (EMS), has announced an enhanced energy management solution powered by MicroStrategy® Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software platforms. GridPoint said the collaboration enables it to develop more robust enterprise-wide energy analytics.

A pilot energy efficiency program launching this fall in Texas from Samsung and Earth Networks, parent company of WeatherBug Home, will provide homeowners with actionable intelligence they can use to save energy, reduce their electric bills, and find the best energy service rate plan based on their personal energy use.

Universal Devices has introduced “Energy Management In a Box.” The new offering, a low-cost system configured for the small and medium business (SMB) market, complies with California’s Title 24 building requirements and further extends demand response (DR) using the OpenADR specification.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released new guidance to help school districts protect IAQ while increasing energy efficiency during school renovations. 

The winners of the 2015 AHR Expo Innovation Awards have been announced. Representing the major segments of the HVACR marketplace, the winning entries were selected in 10 categories as the most innovative new products among the thousands that will be displayed at the 2015 AHR Expo.

Sustainable Energy Fund is inviting not-for-profit and governmental entities in Pennsylvania to apply for a loans at 2 percent interest to complete energy efficiency or renewable energy projects. Projects must reduce energy consumption of non-sustainable resources or generate energy from sustainable resources.

Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) system prices dropped by 12-19 percent nationwide in 2013, according to the third edition of a jointly written report on PV pricing trends from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

Overall connectivity penetration rates across all building systems are currently only around 16 percent; this connectivity penetration rate will rise steadily over the coming years, and with it the market potential for the Building Internet of Things (BIoT), says Memoori in a new research report.

While the mold remediation industry has produced a variety of approaches and voluntary guidelines, no U.S. federal government standards exist to define the processes or procedures needed to control or eliminate indoor fungal growth or fungal hazards.