Energy Use Monitoring News
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SECC Releases 2024 State of the Consumer Report
As American consumers become more in tune with the household energy usage data that’s now widely available from smart home and smart grid technologies, the possibilities of what they can achieve with electricity become more top of mind, finds a new report from the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC).According to the 2024 State of the Consumer report, a meta-analysis of SECC’s 2023 research ...
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Hawaiian Electric Highlights Renewable Energy Progress in 2022-23 Sustainability Report
By the end of 2022, 37% of single-family homes across the five islands Hawaiian Electric serves had rooftop solar, Oahu's first grid-scale solar and storage project was online, and the state's last remaining coal plant was retired. That's the kind of progress outlined in Hawaiian Electric's 2022-23 Corporate Sustainability Report, "Building a Strong and Resilient Hawaii Together," now online. ...
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EIA Releases Consumption and Expenditures Data from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey
U.S. households on average consumed less energy in 2020 than in 2009, according to newly released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). RECS data show that households used an average of 76.8 million British thermal units (MMBtu) of energy, including electricity, natural gas, propane, and fuel oil. That consumption is relatively ...
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Dexma Grows by 20% and Consolidates with more than 10,000 Customers in 35 Countries
Dexma, provider of energy management solutions for buildings, retail and industry, expects to close the year with a turnover of 4.3 million euros, a figure that represents an increase of 20% over the previous year. The Catalan company, which since 2020 is part of the technology firm Spacewell – integrated in the multinational Nemetschek – has managed to become, from Barcelona, the ...
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Report: U.S. Commercial Buildings Consuming Less Energy per Square Foot as of 2018
The average total amount of energy used per square foot in commercial buildings decreased by 12% from 2012 to 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS). The amount of energy used per square foot decreased in commercial buildings overall, particularly in buildings used for inpatient health care, offices, and education. ...
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Energy monitoring using bluebee®?
Not just data for your ESG report (although it can be used for that)! Not just a pretty dashboard connected to IoT meters (although we have this too, with a BIM model thrown in)! Instead, all your energy data in context: Your assets, how they interact with each others (structures and process dependencies: monitoring your utilities is useless without knowing what asset, what process they ...
By Siveco China
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EIA Releases Key State-Level Household Energy Characteristics Data
For the first time, the U.S. Energy Information Administration has released Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) data for households broken down by all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The 2020 RECS results show how homes use energy for space heating and cooling, water heating, cooking, appliances, and electronics, highlighting how household energy characteristics differ across the ...
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Recurrent Energy Acquires 400 MWh of Standalone Storage Projects in Development in ERCOT
Recurrent Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc., this week announced the acquisition of two standalone energy storage projects from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES). The projects, which are in the South Load Zone of the Texas ERCOT market, are each anticipated to store up to 200 MWh of energy. Both projects are currently in development and are anticipated to reach notice to ...
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AEP Ohio Receives PUCO Approval To Expand Smart Grid Across Service Territory
AEP Ohio, an American Electric Power company, this week received approval from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to move forward with the third phase of its grid modernization plan. The recent settlement will allow AEP Ohio to bring advanced smart grid technologies including smart meters, customer access to real-time energy usage data, and distribution system reliability enhancements ...
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AEP Ohio Gets Unanimous Support To Expand Smart Grid Across Service Territory
AEP Ohio this week filed a settlement, with unanimous support or agreement not to oppose from all interested parties, for its grid modernization expansion plan with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to bring advanced smart grid technologies including smart meters, customer access to real-time energy usage data, and distribution system reliability enhancements throughout its service ...
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Atlantic City Electric Receives Approval to Build Smart Energy Network in South Jersey
Atlantic City Electric has received approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to build a Smart Energy Network across the company's entire South Jersey service area, including upgrading the local energy grid and installing smart meters to enhance local energy grid reliability and resiliency and improve the customer experience. The Smart Energy Network is a critical component in ...
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Landis+Gyr and National Grid Sign Contract for Landmark Grid Modernization Project
Landis+Gyr Technology Inc., a subsidiary of Landis+Gyr Group AG, has signed a 20-year contract with National Grid for a state-of-the-art grid modernization project that is set to open the next wave of smart metering capabilities for utilities.National Grid will be among the first to deploy Landis+Gyr's Revelo meter, a residential meter that offers high-resolution sensing of streaming waveform ...
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Uplight and AES to Transform Customers` Energy Experience While Achieving Greater Efficiency and Cost Savings
Uplight and The AES Corporation this week announced a new partnership that will transform how AES customers engage with their energy provider and manage their energy use. The partnership will allow AES and the communities it serves to accelerate a cleaner energy future by using Uplight's suite of products and services, including the latest release of the Uplight Connect Platform. The Connect ...
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LG Electronics And Sense Announce Collaboration On AI-Driven Home Solar And Usage Monitoring
LG Electronics has announced its collaboration with Sense, a leading provider of home energy monitors for consumers, to deliver to LG residential solar customers detailed, real-time data on their homes' solar generation and power usage down to the appliance level using the Sense Solar Home Energy Monitor.Consumers have little visibility into their day-to-day electricity consumption and how using ...
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Intertrust Launches CleanGrid Toolkit for Energy Data Applications
Intertrust this week announced CleanGrid -- a new Intertrust Platform toolkit that helps energy companies and their vendors develop data-driven energy applications. The toolkit leverages Intertrust Platform's innovative features -- including data virtualization and data interoperability, data governance and secure execution environments -- and helps energy companies support consumer protection, ...
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Business alliance between measurement and calibration solutions vendor ETAS and electrical measuring instrument manufacturer HIOKI
ETAS K.K. (Headquarters: Nishi-ku, Yokohama, President & Representative Director, Takayuki Yokoyama, hereinafter, “ETAS”), which provides measurement and calibration solutions for ECU software and HIOKI E.E. Corporation (Headquarters: Ueda, Nagano, President & CEO, Kazutoshi Hosoya, hereinafter “HIOKI”), which engages in electrical measuring instrument development, ...
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NYSERDA and National Grid Partner to Launch Innovative "Home Energy Savings Program" in Central New York
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and National Grid this week launched the Home Energy Savings Program, a pioneering, pay-for-performance residential energy savings pilot program in Central New York. This initiative will help provide opportunities for contractors to perform work and enable energy efficiency service providers to serve National Grid's customers ...
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America Has Lost 594,300 Clean Energy Jobs; 850,000 Expected by June 30
Nearly 600,000 U.S. clean energy workers have lost their jobs since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic after 447,208 new workers filed unemployment claims in April- tripling the claims filed in March. That's according to a new analysis of unemployment data released last week by E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), E4TheFuture, and BW Research ...
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U.S. Utility Scorecard Reveals a Dramatic Increase in Energy Savings
The 52 largest US electric utilities have dramatically increased their overall energy savings as they adopt innovative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the ACEEE's 2020 Utility Energy Efficiency Scorecard. Leading the way are Eversource Massachusetts and National Grid Massachusetts, which tied for first place for the second time, followed by San Diego Gas & Electric (#3), ...
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New Data From FortisBC Reveal the Impact of Making Older Apartments More Sustainable
FortisBC released emissions and energy use data this week showing that simple energy efficiency upgrades in older apartment buildings have the potential to reduce carbon emissions in the province by about 200,000 tons annually, or the equivalent of removing 43,000 gasoline-powered cars off the road. FortisBC estimates there are over 11,000 older rental apartment buildings in B.C. providing ...
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