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Employee engagement: bringing your best self to work
Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company It's so common to discuss employee engagement from the perspective of the company. Obviously, the benefits of engaged employees to a business are many: increased productivity, better communication, collaborative team work, employee retention, and best of all, the alignment of a corporate sustainability plan with ...
By 3BL Media
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Mercy Takes Commitment of Saving Energy to New Level
Mercy is expanding its energy management efforts at its hospitals. As part of its commitment towards saving energy, Mercy will be using eSight energy management software to streamline energy data collection and monitor energy usage across the hospitals to target areas for savings. Douglas Neidigh, Executive Director of Energy/Sustainability at Mercy said, “The eSight Energy program will ...
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Sustainability at Harper Adams – Paul is energy manager of the year
Paul Moran, Estates and Facilities Manager at Harper Adams University College, has been crowned Energy Manager of the Year at The Energy Institute’s Environment and Energy Awards 2011. The results were announced at the NEMEX Gala dinner, held during the Sustainability Live Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham. Paul, 39, was among six people to reach the finals, sponsored by the Energy ...
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Prepay energy’s pathway to consumer satisfaction and benefits
EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency in the energy sector, released the findings today of a consumer survey testing customer awareness and acceptance of prepay electricity offerings in Texas and Arizona, the two states with the most consumers currently on prepay electricity plans. Nine hundred consumers in those two states responded to the survey conducted in November 2011. “While ...
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Get Energy Smart!
British Gas has always been committed to offering customers the best possible deal for their energy needs. With a range of unique incentives - like Online Energy and EnergySmart? - as well as a great choice of flexible tariffs, they've got everything you need to keep your bills to a minimum. To help homeowners kick-start their own energy transformation around the home, British Gas offer ...
By Centrica
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Carbon Trust response to role of Carbon Trust Standard in meeting ESOS regulations
Commenting on the release of the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) guidance, Darran Messem, Managing Director of Certification at the Carbon Trust, said: "ESOS should help more than 7,000 large enterprises in the UK to save billions on their energy bills through to 2030. The regulations are a great wake up call for those that are still not aware of the compelling business case for ...
By Carbon Trust
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Enel X Signs 100 MW Demand Response Agreement with Ameren Missouri
Enel X, the Enel Group’s advanced energy services business line, has signed an exclusive agreement with Ameren Missouri, the state’s largest utility with more than 1.2 million customers, to deliver 100 MW of demand response resources from the utility’s commercial and industrial (C&I) customers for the 2019 - 2021 program period, with delivery periods running May-September each year. Under the ...
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All-New 2013 Fiat 500e Recharges the Electric Vehicle (EV) Segment with Italian Style and Performance
SOURCE: Chrysler Group LLC SUMMARY:All-new 2013 Fiat 500e electrifies the Cinquecento lineup with even more innovation and style, plus up to an estimated 116 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) city and 100 MPGe highway of pure battery-electric power and zero tailpipe emissions Fiat 500e is designed to keep electric vehicle (EV) ownership simple with its familiar no-nonsense design, convenience ...
By 3BL Media
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Businesses urged to monitor energy use
Businesses have been encouraged to pay closer attention to their energy use ahead of the implementation of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency regulations. The scheme kicked off this month (April) but will only gradually come into force with the full bill for carbon emissions not being applied until the same time next year. However, PriceWaterhouseCoopers has urged companies to ...
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Central California Leads the State in Zero Net Energy Homebuilding
De Young Properties and energy consulting company ConSol jointly announce De Young RidgeView, the largest grid-connected zero net energy (ZNE) single-family community to be developed in California. De Young RidgeView, located in the Central California community of Clovis, will include 58 zero net energy homes designed with the potential to produce as much clean energy as they consume in a year. ...
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EPA challenges American School Districts to save energy and money with energy star
During the back to school season, EPA is challenging school administrators and building managers to improve energy efficiency throughout their facilities. School districts can answer EPA’s call-to-action by taking the Energy Star Challenge, a pledge to improve the energy efficiency of our nation’s buildings. Schools that accept the challenge will join more than 500 school districts across the ...
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You can’t manage energy costs you don’t measure
ENMAT energy management solutions allows companies to track energy cost, usage and demand to automatically generate reports and identify savings opportunities. Companies are able to compare and evaluate power usage efficiency across multiple sites, with the aim of reducing costs and minimizing risk. The service can also help building owners validate the results of energy reduction projects. ...
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NREL Collaborates with ComEd on Evaluating Highly Efficient Technologies for Building Energy Savings
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently partnered with the midwestern utility company Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) on a project that will help the utility reach their goal of nearly doubling savings for customers and reducing electricity use in Illinois by 21% by 2030. This new collaboration with NREL will help ComEd reach their goal through more energy-efficient technologies for ...
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Spectroscopy Probes the Energy-Level Landscape of Solar Cells
A new spectroscopic method developed by researchers at Heidelberg University could enable scientists to study the physical principles of organic photovoltaics with extreme precision to better understand how energetic losses occur. The new method combines ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and argon cluster etching to allow scientists to directly visualize the vertical energetic landscape in ...
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Smart Homes Have Become an Expected Standard
by Neil Strother, Navigant Research. Reprinted with permission.Smart home technology is now standard in new residential construction. This is according to executives from leading US home builders such as Meritage Homes, Lennar, and Pulte, among others. This news might not come as a surprise for close watchers of the smart home trend.Smart Home Tech Adoption Moving Fast The speed at which this ...
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Irish companies told to monitor energy use
Irish businesses need to look at ways they can manage and reduce their energy use, an industry expert has said. Speaking to the siliconrepublic.com website, Liam Relihan, technical director of ResourceKraft, said that better energy management would help businesses reduce their environmental impact and operating costs. He cited a recent report from the Small Firms Association which showed ...
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Eaton white paper explores impact of part L2 on energy management
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton has published a white paper examining what effect Part L2 of the Building Regulations has had on the measurement of energy consumption in non-domestic buildings. The white paper, entitled Electrical Power Management: The impact of Part L2 of the Building Regulations, is written by David Pitt, Product Marketing Manager for power distribution components, ...
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Boston earns top honors in a new report ranking 34 of America’s largest cities on their efforts to cut energy use and costs; all cities have opportunity to save more
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) today released the 2013 City Energy Efficiency Scorecard, a report that ranks 34 of the most populous U.S. cities on policies to advance energy efficiency. The report includes recommendations and strategies for all cities to lower energy use. ACEEE also launched a new interactive infographic accompanying the report that highlights each ...
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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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GE helps the UK meet its goal of placing smart grid technology in every home by 2020
GE Energy smart meters are helping prove the value of a smart grid in the United Kingdom as part of a government-sponsored Energy Demand Research Project (EDRP). GE is committed to assisting the U.K. government meet an objective to have smart meters in every home by 2020. Using smart meters as information collection and reporting devices, the EDRP study tracks energy use by time of day. The ...
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