Barriers to Achieving Energy Efficiency
From Pike Research, here’s an exhaustive list of all the financial and regulatory barriers to cost-effective, existing technologies to make buildings more energy efficient — as well as a long list of...
View ArticleGE and Ingersoll Rand Launch Intelligent Building Automation Platform For...
General Electric and Trane, the HVAC business of Ingersoll Rand, have partnered up to build an automation platform to run data center environmental control systems. GE has been offering data center...
View ArticleToday in Green IT
Will building energy efficiency be the next greentech boom sector — and does that mean it’s becoming a bubble? Yes, and yes, are the answers from a Lux Research report this morning that predicts a boom...
View ArticleDynamic Chilling Goes Big Time
Optimum Energy, maker of technology that helps building cooling systems run more efficiently, has linked up with building systems giant Johnson Controls — just one of the many partnerships and...
View ArticleIce Energy, Carrier Partner to Cut Energy Consumption and Cost
Ice-cooled air conditioner-energy storage startup Ice Energy has a partnership with big HVAC company Carrier to deploy hybrid cooling and energy storage systems for commercial buildings. Making ice at...
View ArticleMarijuana, Top U.S. Crop, Has a $5B Power Bill
Indoor marijuana growing operations suck up about $5 billion in electricity per year in the United States, or nearly 1 percent of the country’s power supply, according to a report from Lawrence...
View ArticleAT&T data center sale highlights advantages of leasing
More and more companies are moving from an ownership to a leasing model, an arrangement AT&T continues to benefit from.
View ArticleForecast: electric vehicle technology markets, 2012 -2017
More than 900,000 light-duty PEVs will be sold in the United States between 2012 and 2017.
View ArticleFinding the right strategy for home energy management
As Nest becomes the first true success in the home energy management market, companies like EcoFactor are employing a software only solution. Which is the right strategy?
View ArticleBuilding energy management systems: overview and forecast
Although there has been a focus on energy efficiency in commercial buildings for some years, the BEMS market can still be considered nascent. The landscape of new entrants, new technologies, and new...
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