As summer approaches, commercial building managers are literally preparing to take some heat. When temperatures rise, property agents will be responsible for striking just the right balance between two competing priorities – cooling offices down to a comfortable temperature, and holding energy bills to a minimum.
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Is power pilferage a problem for your electric coop or muni? Wondering how cloud services can speed deployment of smart grid apps? Looking for better ways to monitor critical field assets? Today we're highlighting new products and services that tackle a variety of common utility pain points.
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With the influx of natural gas causing energy prices to fall, the payback period for many energy efficiency technologies is becoming longer and more difficult to justify. However, there are opportunities for significant cost reductions in managing peak load, whose cost is largely unaffected by natural gas prices.
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Twenty five new products and applications built with or integrate to the Niagara and Sedona Frameworks made their debut at the 2012 Niagara Summit that took place April 29-May 2, 2012 at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas.
The variety of products and applications ranged from analytic and graphic applications, to energy and lighting, to security applications and new controllers with expanded capabilities.
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Smart meters, datamining and cost awareness is driving the release of new, smart software that enables massive cost savings on energy for commercial property owners and private consumers alike. Companies like OPOWER, FuelFirst, Possitive America and Clean Urban Energy are leaning on the SaaS business model and behavioural and social science to enable 5 – 25% savings on private and commercial customers.
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More than 240 breakthrough energy developments from ARPA-E awardees and other innovative companies were on display at the third annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Technology Showcase this year. These projects covered everything from grid-scale storage to building efficiency to advanced carbon capture and electrofuels.
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