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A variety of energy efficiency projects has helped the California city of West Covina to cut its energy spending by $184,800 a year and reduce its power consumption by more than 80 million kilowatt-hours (kWh). The city’s efforts have earned it a Gold Level Achievement award in Southern
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A company that works to reduce energy loads using smart-grid technology expects to help San Antonio reduce its peak power demand by 250 megawatts over the next four years. Consert is doing more than implementing its Virtual Peak Plant software for the Texas city, though: it’s also relocating its
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Two energy-focused firms — one based in Canada, the other in Kentucky — are teaming up to offer their customers new ways to save on energy costs by taking advantage of smart-grid technologies. Toronto-based ENBALA Power Networks and Fellon-McCord, headquartered in Louisville, will both work with clients in the PJM Independent System
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Energy customers in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia will begin testing a new demand management program next year aimed at reducing utility costs and better managing fluctuations in wholesale energy prices. The program is part of a new partnership between Constellation Energy and Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC). Working together, the
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One of the big obstacles people always talk about in making the switch from fossil fuels to cleaner energy is intermittency in supplies: that is, the variable nature of sun and wind power. Keeping the lights on gets tricky when your electricity sources are neither steady nor 100-per cent predictable.
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UK grocery chain Sainsbury’s has signed an agreement with RLtec to fit dynamic demand technology to its stores’ heating and ventilation systems. To be installed in more than 200 stores, the smart-grid technology that cut carbon emissions by two million tonnes a year, according to RLtec. The 10-year deal
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When researchers tell us we need to cut our carbon dioxide output by megatonnes a year, it’s hard to see how we as puny little individuals can have much of an impact. But lots of puny little individuals acting in concert can help generate significant savings in both energy
