building energy use News
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U.S. Energy Department Announces $5 Million for Energy Planning, Innovative Energy Practices, and Technical Assistance in 16 States
Recently (9/21), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $5 million in funding for 16 states to enhance energy security, advance state-led energy initiatives, and improve energy productivity. Through DOE's State Energy Program (SEP), each of the 16 awardees will work to advance energy efficiency, renewable energy, grid resiliency, and improve energy reliability and ...
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Building sector must change to meet global energy targets, new study finds
New modeling by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) shows how energy use in buildings can be cut by 60 percent by 2050 - essential to meeting global climate change targets - but this will require immediate action to transform the building sector. This is the central message of the report from the WBCSD's four-year, $15 million Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) ...
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Energy-efficiency-in-buildings project shares knowledge to support carbon challenge
'To win the race against global warming' is the vision of Carbon Challenge, a campaign that unites the ambitious goals of competing in the world's leading sailing events - the Volvo Ocean Race and the America's Cup - with the objective of becoming a catalyst and facilitator for a drastic reduction in carbon emissions. The WBCSD's Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project will share its ...
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New Smart Transformer Helps Commercial Buildings Cut Energy Use
(Burnaby, British Columbia) April 7, 2010 — With a decade of research and development, Legend Power’s new smart transformer helps commercial buildings, big box retailers and other large facilities save 5-7% in electricity bills, energy consumption (kWh) and peak demand (kW). This smart grid device, called the Electrical Harmonizer-AVR, is a high efficiency auto-transformer with an ...
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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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DNV GL: Middle East Electricity Demand Will Triple by 2050, Powered by Rapid Growth of Wind and Solar Energy
Electricity demand in the Middle East will triple by 2050, accelerating the growth of renewable energy and triggering the diversification of economies away from fossil fuels.These are some of the findings of DNV GL’s Energy Transition Outlook 2018, which provides an outlook of the global energy landscape up to 2050.By 2050, solar PV will be the main source of energy in the Middle East and North ...
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How to turn blueprints green
Open-source program developed at MIT allows architects and engineers to optimize a building’s energy systems early in the design process Even in today’s increasingly energy-conscious world, it’s rare for the subject of energy efficiency to be addressed in the early stages of designing a new building, whether it’s a single-family home or a large factory or office building. Typically, issues about ...
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BRIEFING SHOWS INCREASED LINK BETWEEN ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SHAREHOLDER VALUE
New Tool for Success in Energy Efficiency and the Bottom Line Released Today Washington, DC Apr 11, 2005 "Energy Management and Shareholder Value", an executive briefing released today, offers businesses increased evidence on and successful practices for linking energy efficiency and shareholder value. The document's publication is a partnership between GreenBiz.com, the online ...
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Energy Department Announces $42 Million in Project Selections for Innovative Buildings Research
Recently (1/29), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $42 million in project selections to support early-stage research and development (R&D) of innovative residential and commercial building technologies for energy efficiency.Buildings use 75% of U.S. electricity and account for 40% of U.S. overall energy use. Energy efficiency is a key driver of overall economic efficiency ...
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Six Common City-Level Energy Policies Could Reduce Nationwide Carbon Emissions by up to 480 Million Metric Tons Annually
The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently examined the carbon abatement potential of city actions in six policy areas as part of the DOE's Cities Leading through Energy Analysis and Planning (Cities-LEAP) project. The analysis uses new data on energy use in more than 23,400 U.S. cities and estimates the aggregate impact of city actions related to: building energy ...
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US EPA names Texas top performer for energy efficiency
Schools, courthouses, residences, hotels, markets - a total of 356 top performing Texas buildings earned an Energy Star for energy efficiency in 2007. This was enough for Texas to lead all other states in the most greenhouse gas reductions from Energy Star buildings, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, said Wednesday. The Energy Star buildings in Texas save more than $107 million ...
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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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Energy efficiency in buildings: business realities and opportunities
This study highlights opportunities to promote green building know-how and technologies as the WBCSD pushes for zero net energy construction worldwide through its Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EEB) project. Zero net energy buildings will reduce demand by design, be highly efficient and generate at least as much energy as they consume. Buildings are responsible for at least 40% of energy use ...
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Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington businesses compete to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gases in EPA’s Energy Star Battle of the Buildings
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today launched the 2013 Energy Star National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. Teams from more than 220 buildings in the Pacific Northwest -- 3,000 buildings nationwide -- are competing to see who can most reduce their buildings’ energy use. “Battle of the Buildings is a great opportunity for businesses to save money while ...
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City of Houston wins Mayors’ Climate Protection Award
Today, the U.S. Conference of Mayors announced that the City of Houston’s Mayor Annise Parker has received the 2011 U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Climate Protection Award. The Awards ceremony is being held in conjunction with the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ annual meeting. Mayor Parker is being recognized for her work in implementing the Houston Green Office Challenge. The ...
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Bentley selected to join consortium for U.S.-China clean energy research center on building energy efficiency
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused on building energy efficiency. ...
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News Alert: Bentley selected to join consortium for U.S.-China cean energy research center on building energy efficiency
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has been selected to join the consortium, led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) focused on building energy efficiency. The new ...
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Berkeley Lab researchers announce OpenADR specification to ease saving power in buildings through demand response
A new data model developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues at other universities and in the private sector will help facilities and buildings save power through automated demand response technology, and advance the development of the Smart Grid. The researchers who developed Open ADR (Open Automated Demand Response) are part ...
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Why isn`t more being done to slash energy use in buildings?
Buildings are responsible for at least 40% of energy use in most countries. This figure is rising fast as construction booms, especially in countries such as China and India. Knowledge and technology exist today to slash the energy buildings use, while at the same time improving levels of comfort – all for a reasonable cost. Given those basic facts, why isn’t more being done? Because the ...
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EPFL Develops System to Measure In-Building Energy Usage and Coordinate with Smart Grid
A smart grid that decides how best to distribute energy based on availability, cost and customers’ needs – that’s the energy concept being developed by researchers in the Electronics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (EPFL)'s School of Engineering in Lausanne, Switzerland. Researchers have designed a system capable of collecting ...
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