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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Centrica
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Renewable energy investors closely monitoring US-China relations
On her first trip to Asia as the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has announced: 'We will be looking for ways to collaborate on issues that go beyond just our mutual concerns to really addressing global concerns.' Accompanying Mrs Clinton was Todd Stern, the administration's climate change envoy, and amid the flux of economic stimulus facilities announced this month by both the US and ...
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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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Early-adopters of ISO50001 now achieving significant power cost savings
With savings of over $2,000,000 USD per annum reported by Delta Electronics and carbon emissions reductions of 11% at Sheffield’s Hallam University, could ISO50001 change the way energy is monitored and managed? Many of us are familiar with the industrial and commercial standards outlined by the International Organisation for Standardisation. These standards are followed throughout the ...
By Jacarta Ltd.
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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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ABB wins US$62 million energy order in Oman
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth approximately $62 million from Vale to supply electrification and automation systems and related equipment for a new iron ore pellet plant in Oman. The new Vale plant, 230 kilometers northwest of Muscat, is expected to produce up to 10 million tons of iron ore pellets per year. Scheduled to start operations at the end ...
By ABB
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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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Recurrent Energy Acquires 400 MWh of Standalone Storage Projects in Development in ERCOT
Recurrent Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc., this week announced the acquisition of two standalone energy storage projects from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES). The projects, which are in the South Load Zone of the Texas ERCOT market, are each anticipated to store up to 200 MWh of energy. Both projects are currently in development and are anticipated to reach notice to ...
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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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