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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is offering up to $8 million in funds to promote new ways to make better energy consumption data available to residential and business utility customers. The “Smart Grid Data Access” Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) aims to encourage utilities and third-party technology companies to work
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Constellation Energy’s latest version of its online energy management application for commercial customers is also available as an app for the iPhone and iPad. VirtuWatt 3.0 provides commercial customers with minute-to-minute meter telemetry, real-time pricing information, marketplace bidding capabilities and automated energy reduction strategies. It also lets users
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Silver Spring Networks has released a new energy monitoring platform that lets utilities provide customers with daily insights into their consumption patterns even if they don’t yet have a smart meter installed. The CustomerIQ2.0 platform is designed for both residential and commercial utility customers. “Utilities no longer have
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The energy management software company BuildingIQ has been awarded a $1.2-million grant from Commercialisation Australia, an initiative of the Australian federal government. BuildingIQ plans to use the funds to expand its offerings, which focus on energy maangement in commercial buildings. As recent heat waves have shown, power grids are
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GridPoint has released its GridPoint Energy Manager, a unified platform for enterprise and utility energy management. The software is designed to complement existing hardware and service offerings to manage the deployment and operation of energy endpoints, such as building management systems, solar arrays, electric vehicle and home energy management technologies.
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Energy managers and other officials from the US military’s Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) plan to review smart-grid technology innovations and other developments in energy management during a July 12 workshop in San Antonio. The JBSA Sustainable Energy Workshop 2011 is being organized by the JBSA and the Defense
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Researchers in the UK are looking for volunteers to help them with a project designed to study how people use energy in their homes, and how they can reduce their consumption. The LEEDR (for Low Effort Energy Demand Reduction) project at Loughborough University needs 20 household volunteers who live within
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A boutique hotel chain hopes to save a bundle on electricity costs with the help of a wireless energy management system. Amsterdam Hospitality, which operates hotels in New York City, New Jersey and North Carolina, is installing a system from Evolve Guest Controls designed to improve the efficiency of a
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Energy management specialist Schneider Electric has signed an agreement to acquire Summit Energy Services Inc., which provides outsourced energy procurement and sustainability services to industrial, commercial and institutional enterprises. Summit Energy employs more than 350 people in 11 international offices across North America and Europe and serves client facilities in
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Energy management applications provider EnerNOC has entered into a contract with Southern California Edison (SCE) to deliver EnerNOC’s EfficiencySMART data-driven energy efficiency application to SCE customers. As part of the contract, which runs through December 31, 2012, SCE will provide funding for EfficiencySMART Commissioning deployments at commercial and institutional
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Verizon Wireless and Consert Inc. have announced the release of a complete energy management turnkey solution for utility customers that runs on Verizon’s 3G wireless network. The Consert Energy Management Solution enables utilities to create and load resources for peak and intermediate periods, improve demand forecasting, facilitate compliance with
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AT&T and Georgia-based startup E3 Greentech are partnering to provide wireless access to a central unit, the home-based E3 Intelligent Bridge, that’s designed to help homeowners and property managers optimise their energy use by automatically reducing energy waste. E3 Greentech’s Home Energy Management System (HEMS) uses
