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Market Launch of E.ON's Smart Home Energy Application in the UK
Smart, sustainable living is now becoming reality for London home buyers. In cooperation with quality British homebuilding company Berkeley, E.ON is exclusively offering the new digital E.ON Home product to new home buyers alongside smart energy technology upgrade packages. The performance of smart home energy technology packages can be visualized and controlled via E.ON Home and are now ...
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New Solutions-Based Business Models Are Projected to Transform the Residential Utility Market
A new report from Navigant Research examines the evolution occurring in technology and customer-focused solutions for residential utility customers, analyzing how traditional business models are being disrupted.As the grid evolves into a cleaner, more distributed, and intelligent infrastructure, incumbent utilities are looking to deliver new customer-focused products and services. For some ...
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Department of Energy Releases Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap
The U.S. Department of Energy this week released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap, the Department’s first comprehensive energy storage strategy. Announced in January 2020 by U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC) seeks to create and sustain American leadership in energy storage. In addition to concerted research efforts, the ...
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Survey Reveals Low-Income Consumers Need Financial Help to Engage in Smart Energy
The Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) this week released a new report that sheds light on lower-income consumers' behaviors, attitudes and values as they relate to energy efficiency, smart home technology, renewable energy, their electricity providers and climate change. The "Understanding Lower-Income Consumers and the Smart Energy Future" report was developed from an online national ...
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Energy Department announces building energy efficiency investments in twenty-two states
The Energy Department today announced new investments in state-led energy efficiency projects, supporting the Obama Administration's commitment to reduce building energy costs and transfer those savings directly to taxpayers. The Energy Department awarded nearly $14 million to 22 states and territories to conduct energy efficiency upgrades in public facilities and develop local policies and ...
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Report: 29% of US Internet Households Plan to Purchase a Smart Thermostat in the Next Six Months
Parks Associates' smart thermostat research finds 29% of US internet households plan to buy one of these devices in the next six months. Smart Thermostat Market Assessment finds that adoption of smart thermostats has been flat for several years, at 13% of US internet households, despite owners reporting savings that meet or exceed their expectations. "Energy efficiency and sustainability are no ...
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Microsoft Licenses Berkeley Lab’s home energy saver code for its energy management software
Microsoft Corporation has launched a Web-based home energy management service, Hohm, which uses the energy models in the Home Energy SaverTM, developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Strategist made the announcement at the Edison Electric Institute’s annual convention in San Francisco. Hohm will provide ...
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Survey: 9 out of 10 Consumers Make Direct Link Between Climate Change and Rising Energy Bills
A recent consumer study by Schneider Electric has revealed that nearly 9 out of 10 (86%) global consumers believe climate change will lead to rising energy bills and individuals should play a larger role on climate change. Key findings from consumer study include: 7 out of 10 (72%) consumers consider reducing carbon footprints a personal priority Over half (55%) place importance on their homes ...
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Department of Energy Announces Partnership to Accelerate Commercialization of LDES
The U.S. Department of Energy and partners this week (March 8) announced progress toward a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at accelerating the commercialization of long-duration energy storage (LDES). Parties to the MOU, announced during CERAWeek, are the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions, the Edison Electric Institutes' Institute for the Energy Transition, EPRI, ...
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Report: Eurasia Smart Grid Market Forecast Thru 2026
A new regional study by Northeast Group, LLC examines the smart grid market in Eurasia over the period 2016-2026. The Eurasia region has several drivers for smart grid investment, including an initial base of smart meters already present in the region. Driven by high non-technical losses and aided by affordable local vendors, utilities -- particularly in Russia and Ukraine -- have been ...
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How to design a clean energy standard
WRI’s response to the Bingaman-Murkowski White Paper on the design of a clean energy standard in the United States. In response to President Obama’s goal of generating 80 percent of the U.S. electricity from clean energy sources by 2035, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Murkowski issued a white paper posing six basic questions and ...
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DOE Proposes New Efficiency Standards For Distribution Transformers
The U.S. Department of Energy on December 28 proposed new energy-efficiency standards for three categories of distribution transformers to improve the resiliency of America's power grid, lower utility bills, and significantly reduce domestic carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions. DOE's proposal represents a strategic step to advance the diversification of transformer core technology, which will conserve ...
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mPrest Selected as DERMS Provider for Richmond Advanced Energy Community Project
mPrest, a leading developer and provider of distributed asset orchestration and optimization software for the energy market, this week announced its mDERMS platform will be used by energy provider MCE in the Richmond Advanced Energy Community (AEC) project. The project is led by the Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Alliance and will develop and test comprehensive, scalable clean energy solutions to ...
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Biden Administration Launches New Energy Earthshot to Lower Energy Bills in Affordable Housing
The Biden Administration this week (Oct 12) announced the launch of the Affordable Home Energy Shot, a new initiative from the Department of Energy focused on the research, development, and demonstration of clean energy solutions to decarbonize and deliver energy and cost savings for affordable homes. The Affordable Home Energy Shot will drive innovative clean energy solutions in the affordable ...
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How Utilities are Leveraging Storage & Microgrids
Utilities are looking to the future: both investor-owned and municipal utilities are exploring the role that energy storage and microgrid projects will play in their portfolios. Key deployments and initiatives are beginning to help map a course forward for utilities across North America. To further this trend, a special utility perspectives panel led by NextEnergy at the Microgrid Global ...
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FirstEnergy`s West Virginia Operations Headquarters Earns Green Designation
FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) has earned recognition for its commitment to environmental stewardship through the design, construction and operation of its West Virginia Operations Headquarters in Fairmont. The company recently received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, placing the new facility in the I-79 Technology Park ...
By FirstEnergy
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GE and Venture Capital Partners to Invest $63 Million in 10 Home Energy Technology Companies as part of “ecomagination Challenge: Powering Your Home”
GE (NYSE: GE) and its venture capital partners today announced that they will invest $63 million in 10 innovative home energy technology companies, marking the second round of funding as part of the $200 million “GE ecomagination Challenge” (www.ecomagination.com/announcements). This phase of the Challenge, “Powering Your Home,” was launched in ...
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DRI and University of Nevada work together on biomass conversion process
Researchers from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno are part of a US$4.674 million study by Gas Technology Institute to economically convert any leafy or woody biomass into a uniform, densified feedstock that can be easily fed into any thermal gasifer or pryolyzer for conversion into syngas, fuels and value-added chemicals.'This work will directly address the ...
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Biden Administration Announces $250 Million to Accelerate Electric Heat Pump Manufacturing
As part of President Biden's Investing in America the U.S. Department of Energy recently (April 18) announced a $250 million funding opportunity to accelerate electric heat pump manufacturing in America. This is the first funding opportunity announcement stemming from DOE's new authorization, invoked by President Biden last summer, to utilize the Defense Production Act (DPA) to increase domestic ...
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China should support solar thermal energy research
China must support technological research on solar thermal energy, say Huang Ming and Yidong Gong. China is rich in solar energy. More than two thirds of the country receives more than 2,200 hours of sunshine every year. Estimates put the amount of solar radiation landing on China as up to 10,000 times the energy capacity of the Three Gorges Dam. But despite the huge potential of solar power ...
By SciDev.Net
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