demand management
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
Smart Grid
UK-based Seamless Sensing is unveiling its wireless energy monitoring and control solutions at the Ecobuild conference in London today. The solutions, enabled by EnOcean’s energy harvesting technology, are energy-autonomous wireless products designed for integration with smart grid networks. According to Seamless Sensing, they are the only such solutions designed
energy management
IBM is collaborating with McMaster University to improve the energy uses and supplies in the Canadian college’s buildings campus-wide. The new technology, which will debut at McMaster University, will assess, simulate and forecast energy consumption from 60 campus buildings and a university hospital using the latest modeling techniques in
energy storage
Dutch energy consulting firm KEMA is offering expanded energy storage performance testing solutions at its new laboratory located at the KEMA-Powertest facility in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. According to KEMA, the offering is the US’ first comprehensive component-to-megawatt-system testing service for the rapidly evolving energy-storage industry. KEMA’s energy storage performance testing
heat
Like the time-lapse photographs that climate-change-watchers have taken of melting ice caps and retreating glaciers, the images of nighttime Britain snapped by aerial mapping company Bluesky have a disturbing beauty. That’s because the vivid hues and bright contrasts of colour aren’t meaningless, decorative splashes but indicators of how
photovoltaics
Southern California Edison (SCE) has connected the state’s largest investor-owned utility photovoltaic (PV) plant to its Central Valley power grid. The new generating station, the utility’s first ground-mount PV installation, covers 32 acres of land SCE has leased from the city of Porterville in California. It adds 5
lighting
OSRAM, Siemens’ lighting division, is acquiring Germany-based Siteco Lighting GmbH from Barclays Private Equity for an undisclosed purchase price. The acquisition is aimed at extending OSRAM’s reach in the urban infrastructures market for lighting systems. “As a leading manufacturer of lighting components, we are now also further expanding our
sustainability
UK officials today announced a “Mainstreaming Sustainable Development” package aimed at guaranteeing that government policies have been “sustainability-proofed.” The goal is to make sure policies help to deliver sustainable economic growth, improve quality of life and protect the natural environment now and for future generations. “The government is determined that
sustainability
Leipzig’s St. Georg Group has become the first medical centre to complete Siemens’ Green+ Check. The St. Georg Medical Centre commissioned Siemens Healthcare to conduct a Green+ Check to determine its sustainability index and identify areas in which sustainability performance could be improved. The analysis produced a Green+ score
energy management
Echelon Corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California, will provide a preview of its new Echelon Building Energy Management (BEM) solution at this week’s Ecobuild conference in London. The system is based on Echelon’s building automation technology, the LonWorks platform, which is used in over 300,000 buildings worldwide.
Smart Grid
The New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NHEC) has selected Elster’s EnergyAxis smart-grid solution to improve operational efficiency and give its members more visibility and control over energy usage. The largest cooperative utility in New England, NHEC will deploy EnergyAxis and more than 84,000 Elster smart meters to enable advanced
photovoltaics
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy initiative, will collaborate to test the performance of specially coated solar photovoltaic modules designed to avoid the moisture and cementation problems currently faced by PV module producers worldwide and prevent dry dust adhesion. Developed by the US
