Energy Performance News
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Salt River Project and CMBlu Energy Announce Launch of Innovative Energy Storage Project
Salt River Project, a community-based, not-for-profit public power utility and the largest electricity provider in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, and CMBlu Energy, a designer and manufacturer of long-duration Organic SolidFlow energy storage systems, announced a pilot project to deploy long-duration energy storage (LDES) in the Phoenix area. The 5-megawatt (MW), 10-hour-duration project, ...
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Utility Scorecard: Energy Efficiency Efforts Stagnating Amid Climate Crisis
Energy savings from electric utilities' efficiency programs for customers have stagnated in recent years, according to the Utility Energy Efficiency Scorecard released this week (Aug 24) by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The Scorecard evaluates 53 of the largest U.S. electric utilities on their incentive and other programs for energy-saving improvements and finds ...
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Amprius Unveils Industry Leading Ultra-High-Power-High-Energy Lithium-ion Battery, Advancing Aviation and Electric Vehicle Performance
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amprius Technologies, Inc. (“Amprius” or the “Company”) (NYSE: AMPX), a leader in next-generation lithium-ion batteries with its Silicon Anode Platform, is continuing to pioneer innovative battery technology with its newest ultra-high-power-high-energy lithium-ion battery. Leveraging the company’s advanced material system ...
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IEA Publishes Annual Energy Outlook 2023
U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will drop 25% to 38% below what they were in 2005 by 2030, according to projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) Annual Energy Outlook 2023 (AEO2023). By the end of the projection period, 2050, U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions are 17% lower in this year's Reference case compared with last year, after EIA accounted for the effects of ...
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Canada's First Zero-Carbon, Net-Positive Energy Building on track to in Ontario
Office buildings are typically not energy efficient, and globally they contribute to nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions from construction to end of life. A new study out of the University of Waterloo analyzes data-driven improvements in Canada's first zero-carbon, net-positive energy building showing how they play a vital role in that building generating more energy than it consumes. In ...
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NYPA and NYSERDA Announce New Battery Energy Storage Technology
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) this week (Feb 16) announced that a first-of-its-kind battery energy storage system (BESS) using patented, high-safety, lithium-ion (Li-ion) superCell technology is delivering energy peak shaving capabilities to NYPA's White Plains offices, as part of a demonstration project. The BESS ...
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DOE Releases New National Requirements for Zero Energy Ready Single-Family Homes
DOE's Zero Energy Ready Home (ZERH) program in EERE's Building Technologies Office (BTO) has released Version 2 of its national program requirements for single-family homes (ZERH V2), the most significant overhaul of DOE's energy and environmental performance benchmarks in history. Since 2013, the DOE Zero Energy Ready Homes program has consistently set the federal government's highest standards ...
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Southern Housing selects Switch2 as Brighton heat network ESCo partner
The heat network supplies Southern Housing’s Home X residential development of 369 affordable rent, shared ownership, and open market homes. Home X is part of Brighton’s £300m Preston Barracks masterplan to create a new neighbourhood for the city. Switch2 will be responsible for operating, optimising, and maintaining the entire community heat scheme to maximise efficiency, cost, ...
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Shaping Energy Efficiency: Nemetschek Group Brand Spacewell Helps Tackle the Energy Crisis
The Nemetschek Group, a leading global provider of software for the digital transformation in the construction and media industries, is driving a more sustainable building management. It is responding to the energy crisis with the solution Spacewell Energy (Dexma), enabling the energy-efficient operation of facilities and helping companies save operational costs and increase revenues. ...
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New U.S. DOE White Paper: Compensation Mechanisms for Long- Duration Energy Storage
This is the Executive Summary of the recently published white paper, Compensation Mechanisms for Long-Duration Energy Storage (August 2022, U.S. Department of Energy) Rapidly changing power system conditions, driven by decarbonization goals, are leading to significant growth in renewable energy sources, which can be both variable and uncertain. This has been accompanied with increased reliance on ...
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HSGS-Ameresco Awarded Microgrid Project with White Sands Missile Range
HSGS-Ameresco, LLC, a joint venture certified as a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) by the Small Business Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), today announced that it has been awarded a contract to install a microgrid system at the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), the Department of Defense’s largest open-air military test facility in New Mexico. ...
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Leap and NRG Energy Partner on Next-Gen Grid Services Program in Texas
Leap, a leading energy market access provider, and NRG Energy, Inc. brand Direct Energy, a retail electric provider serving C&I customers in Texas, this week (July 6) announced a strategic partnership to deploy a real-time grid services program in Texas to bolster grid flexibility generating savings for NRG customers. Leap together with NRG's automated real-time economic dispatch program will ...
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Managing the 'perfect storm' of heat networks challenges
Residential developers can learn how to manage the 'perfect storm' of regulation, rocketing energy prices and decarbonisation targets at a free webinar series, hosted by Shoosmiths and Switch2 Energy. The webinars will help these developers, owners and operators of heat networks prepare for formal regulation of the sector and meet the triple challenge of delivering affordable, resilient, green ...
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Aerzen Extends Its Portfolio of Turbo Machines. The New Duo: Best Energy Efficiency With Smallest Footprint
The Aerzen Turbo G5plus series is one of the most compact and efficient turbo machines in its class. With two new sizes, AERZEN offers numerous innovations. In addition to an increased system pressure, the new turbos can also score with an extended control range and an efficiency increase of up to 10%. The two new turbo sizes, Aerzen Turbo AT 35 and AT60, are designed for medium volume ...
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DEWA achieves world records in energy and water performance indicators
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)’s adoption of the latest international technologies in the production, transmission and distribution of energy and water contributed to setting world records in the performance indicators of the energy and water sectors, and surpassing an array of leading utility companies in the European Union and the US in various global competitiveness ...
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Switch2 wins government funding to improve heat network performance
Switch2 Energy has won funding from The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) to improve efficiency and carbon performance across 9 of the communal heating schemes it operates. The £4.175 million HNES government grant scheme supports performance improvements to existing heat networks. The aim is to deliver sustained efficiency savings in fuel consumption and carbon emissions to provide a ...
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DOE Seeks Input on Building-Integrated Photovoltaics
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) and Building Technologies Office (BTO) have jointly issued a request for information to gather input on technical and commercial challenges and opportunities for building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems. While roof-mounted solar systems on buildings are more common, BIPV systems offer other ways to site solar ...
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The 50 States of Grid Modernization: All 50 States Addressed Grid Modernization During 2021
The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) released its 2021 annual review and Q4 2021 update edition of The 50 States of Grid Modernization. The quarterly series provides insights on state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions on grid modernization, utility business model and rate reforms, energy storage, microgrids, and demand response. The report finds that all 50 states and ...
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EEW Schwedt Plant Turns to Asynchronous Technology and Flywheel Energy Storage from Recycling Pioneer Lindner
Schwedt (Germany), November 2021. Nestled at the edge of the Lower Oder Valley National Park, the Schwedt power plant, which belongs to the EEW Energy from Waste Group, supplies the local paper industry with electricity and process steam. In line with circular economy principles, the plant recovers paper mill, commercial and industry waste. To optimally prepare the waste for the fluidised ...
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Data Centres Ireland 2021 - 16-17 November - RDS Dublin
Clarke Energy will be exhibiting alongside DE Power at DataCentres Ireland 2021 on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th November at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS). High energy users such as data centres are realising the potential benefits of deploying gas-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) plants in the UK. For data centres as there is a primary requirement for cooling rather than heating ...
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