building energy monitoring News
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Onset Publishes Best Practices Guide on Monitoring Green Roof Performance
As green roofs become more popular for environmentally-sensitive, sustainable buildings, monitoring and documenting their performance has become important. A new 12-page best practices guide from Onset, Monitoring Green Roof Performance with Weather Stations, discusses the importance of monitoring and documenting green roof performance, and explains how data logging weather stations can help ...
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Onset Announces Green Roof Monitoring System
Onset (http://www.onsetcomp.com), a leading supplier of data loggers and weather stations, today announced the HOBO® Green Roof Monitoring System, a research-grade system for measuring the performance of green roofs. Providing reliable performance in harsh rooftop conditions, the 15-channel system enables users to quickly and easily monitor green roof conditions, measure stormwater runoff, ...
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U.S. Congresswoman Schakowsky holds renewable energy and jobs mini-summit with Indie Energy
U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky convened a meeting with representatives of Indie Energy, Garrett-Evangelical, Northwestern University, and the Evanston Chamber of Commerce to discuss the economic benefits of using renewable energy to create highly energy efficient buildings for campuses and communities. The meeting was preceded by Schakowsky's visit to the joint Garrett-Evangelical and Indie ...
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Diagnosing “Broken` Buildings to Make Them Greener
Original story at MIT News The co-founders of MIT spinout KGS Buildings have a saying: “All buildings are broken.” Energy wasted through faulty or inefficient equipment, they say, can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in avoidable annual costs. That’s why KGS aims to “make buildings better” with cloud-based software, called Clockworks, that collects existing ...
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New VPLog-i-R: current transducer with Modbus interface
VPInstruments, manufacturer and worldwide supplier of measurement and monitoring equipment for compressed air and gas, now offers the proven VPLog-i current sensor in a new version with Modbus interface. The VPLog-i-R is the only Rogowski type current sensor with RS485 (Modbus RTU) output. You can now connect multiple VPLog-i-R sensors with other Modbus RTU devices to a PLC or smart data ...
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G8 summit will test leadership of world’s richest nations - WWF
Leaders of the world’s wealthiest industrialized countries gathering in L’Aquila must commit to keep global average temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius in order to prevent climate change from threatening the future of our planet, WWF says ahead of the G8 summit. The meeting taking place in L’Aquila from July 8-10 will be a major test of leadership and commitment, and will show whether ...
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Orange, Calif. JCPenney among winners of U.S. EPA’s first national building competition to save energy (CA)
The JCPenney Store located at 2200 N. Tustin, Orange, Calif., is among the top three winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Building Competition. The competition, launched on April 27, 2010, challenged teams from 14 buildings across the country to measure their building’s energy use and reduce waste with help from the Energy Star program. "The amazing results ...
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Suniva Helps Power Science Education Center in Avon, CO
Suniva, Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar cells and modules, today announced that it is helping power the Walking Mountains Science Center’s Buck Creek Campus in Avon, Colorado. The new campus, which opened to the public on August 20, features a 33 kW solar system comprised of Suniva’s high efficiency ...
By Suniva, Inc.
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Johnson Controls participates in the Green Button initiative for energy efficiency
Johnson Controls, a global leader in delivering solutions that increase efficiency in buildings, today announced its participation in the Green Button initiative. This White House-inspired, industry-led initiative, allows commercial and residential customers to securely download detailed energy usage from their utility's website. A Green Button link will be integrated into Johnson Controls' ...
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EPA announces winners of first national building competition to save energy (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program has announced that Morrison Residence Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has won the first EPA National Building Competition. The competition, launched on April 27, 2010, challenged teams from 14 buildings across the country to measure their building’s energy use and reduce waste with help ...
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Funding Boost for Scottish Marine Energy
Scotland’s marine energy sector is to benefit from a £2.8 million share of the Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) which is run by the Carbon Trust. The news was announced by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing during the RenewableUK Wave and Tidal Conference and Exhibition in Belfast today (Wednesday). The MRCF grant funding is critical to facilitating the success of the first ...
By Carbon Trust
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Government`s Focus on Energy Savings Fosters Growth of the Indian Lighting Control Systems Market, Finds Frost & Sullivan
Escalating investment in the real estate and construction industry, coupled with the growing need to reduce energy consumption across the commercial, residential and government sectors, is propelling the Indian lighting control systems market. Green building projects, in particular, are illuminating avenues for lighting control systems since they have to comply with various national standards set ...
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Noesis Energy Officially Launches Energy Advisor Program; More Than 230 Energy Consultants Already Participating
Noesis Energy, whose free, cloud-based energy management platform puts businesses in control of their energy costs, announced the official launch of the Energy Advisor Program (EAP). Already, more than 230 consultants have joined the program and are using the Noesis energy management platform to boost client engagement and reach new business prospects through Noesis' extensive network of ...
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