A new £100 million fund for green investment was announced today by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Speaking at the Global Business Summit on Energy the Deputy Prime Minister revealed that the UK Green Investments (UKGI) team, based in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, will provide initial funding of £100m to two Non-Domestic Energy Efficiency (NDEE) fund managers ...
A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examines the strategy and execution of 12 leading smart thermostat vendors, including vendor profiles and rankings to provide industry participants with an objective assessment of these companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the growing smart thermostat market. The market for communicating and smart thermostats has exploded with ...
Princeton Power Systems (PPS) today announces that Lieutenant General William Lennox Jr., recent Senior Vice President of the Goodrich Corporation, has joined its Board of Directors. "General Lennox brings to Princeton Power valuable experience and capabilities from his many years of distinguished service and leadership in the military and industry. The company will benefit greatly from his ...
The energy transition is changing how power is generated, distributed, managed and consumed. Building on its Everything as a Grid perspective, power management company Eaton's new Home as a Grid approach combines an intelligent home energy portfolio with strategic partnerships to help residential customers integrate, manage and benefit from renewable technologies. Several factors are ...
Inprova Group, the Cheshire-based procurement outsourcing service company, has acquired award winning non-domestic energy consultancy Energy & Carbon Management (E&CM). E&CM, which was awarded Consultancy of Year in a 2017 Industry Awards ceremony, is based in Horsham, West Sussex. It has been purchased from its current owner and founder, Jon Henderson, for an undisclosed sum. ...
The active involvement of regulatory bodies, be it the government, building construction authorities or Facilities Management (FM) associations, plays an important role in the evolution of the FM market. The FM markets in developing nations such as Vietnam and the Philippines are moving sluggishly due to the apathy of their regulatory bodies. In this scenario, countries such as Singapore and ...
Higher foreign investments in Southeast Asia and greater awareness about building management have given a thrust to the integrated facilities management (IFM) market in the region, with Malaysia and Singapore leading from the front. The strong regulatory support, along with market initiatives to educate end users about the benefits of IFM, will enhance awareness about outsourcing FM. New ...
A new report from Navigant Research examines regional and global trends in the home energy management (HEM) market, including global HEM market forecasts, broken out by segment and world region, through 2023. After years of sputtering growth, the HEM market has begun to gather momentum. Product vendors, utilities, service providers, retailers, and other stakeholders report increasing activity, ...
Higher foreign investments in Southeast Asia and greater awareness about building management have given a thrust to the integrated facilities management (IFM) market in the region, with Malaysia and Singapore leading from the front. The strong regulatory support, along with market initiatives to educate end users about the benefits of IFM, will enhance awareness about outsourcing FM. New ...
Dynamic pricing for utility customers, based on rate structures that include changes in rates in response to changes in grid conditions, has long been viewed as a means of reducing energy costs and improving the utilization of electricity generation and delivery assets. Such systems still face considerable barriers to adoption, however, and are likely to remain elusive to most customers in the ...
CeBIT, the nation’s leading trade show for ICT industries and research organisations, is on in Sydney from 24-26 May. The CSIRO stand, staffed by experts in science, engineering and commercialisation, will feature displays of the following technology: augmented reality visualisation to enable remote delivery of complicated expert services in healthcare, education and controlling ...
A recent report from Navigant Research examines regional and global trends in the home energy management (HEM) market, including global HEM market forecasts, broken out by segment and world region, through 2023. Shortly after Google purchased Nest Labs in January 2014, HEM stakeholders began reporting increased market activity, as the acquisition signaled to vendors, utilities, service ...
The 16th Latin Upstream 2010 is focused on the exploration industry, gas-LNG and GTL - with Speakers from Latin America and worldwide on competition, National Oil Companies, strategy and portfolio, new ventures, hydrocarbon potential, regional risks and management issues, integration in energy markets, domestic and cross-border oil and gas ventures, Independents, new basins and acreage, Bid ...
Tendril recenty (5/3) announced it has acquired EnergySavvy, a leader in personalized utility customer engagement. With this acquisition, Tendril’s expanded platform now delivers solutions for the full range of C-level, residential customer experience challenges: reducing service costs, increasing satisfaction, and executing strategic initiatives, such as serving low-income households and ...
The home energy management (HEM) market has struggled to gain traction in recent years, particularly from a utility standpoint. However, HEM systems have picked up momentum since early 2012, as non-utility stakeholders have moved in and started to lay the groundwork for growth. Click to tweet: According to a new Leaderboard report from Navigant Research, Opower currently leads the HEM market in ...
A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examines the strategy and execution of 16 leading home energy management (HEM) vendors, including vendor profiles and rankings, to provide industry participants with an objective assessment of these companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in this growing market. While the HEM market has struggled to gain traction in the past, ...
ACEEE is proud to honor 53 of the United States’ leading energy efficiency programs with the Exemplary Program Award. In a national review, ACEEE selected these programs based on their innovation and effectiveness in helping customers increase energy efficiency in their homes and businesses. The awards accompany ACEEE’s publication, The New Leaders of the Pack: ACEEE’s Fourth ...
The National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) 2016 New American Home (TNAH) will open its doors to International Builders’ Show attendees on January 19, 2016. Both designed and built by the Nevadabased firm Element Design Build, the 5,200-square-foot home incorporates energy efficiency and sustainability into its contemporary “Desert Elegance” design and offers ...
SGIP announced the release of a free white paper that addresses the issue of cybersecurity for smart grid broadcast communications. Smart Grid System Security with Broadcast Communications was published by the Home/Building/Industry-to-Grid Domain Expert Working Group (H/B/I2G DEWG) at SGIP. The white paper is for utilities, energy service providers and vendors of energy management equipment. It ...
Until 2012, home energy management (HEM) systems, which help residential customers monitor and adjust their energy use, struggled to gain market traction. More recently, however, non-utility stakeholders have moved into this segment, increasing awareness of new tools and helping to drive steady growth. Click to tweet: According to a recent report from Navigant Research, worldwide revenue from ...