HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Greensmith Energy, one of the largest providers of energy storage software and turn-key solutions, announced 70 megawatts of energy storage deployments – all powered by the company's proven GEMS software platform. While most of the capacity was integrated and installed by the company over the past two years, Greensmith is also reporting growth in software licensing as punctuated by the 53MWh software-as-a-service contract awarded earlier this year by Deltro Energy.
Friday, 1 April 2016
Greensmith Energy Secures Market Leader Position-Reaches 70 Megawatts of Energy Storage
Six core activities in the commissioning of the earthing system
Greensmith Energy Secures Market Leader Position-Reaches 70 Megawatts of Energy Storage
HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Greensmith Energy, one of the largest providers of energy storage software and turn-key solutions, announced 70 megawatts of energy storage deployments – all powered by the company's proven GEMS software platform. While most of the capacity was integrated and installed by the company over the past two years, Greensmith is also reporting growth in software licensing as punctuated by the 53MWh software-as-a-service contract awarded earlier this year by Deltro Energy.
Six core activities in the commissioning of the earthing system
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Energy Efficiency is Still Cheaper than Building Power Plants
Energy efficiency is still cheaper than building a new power plant. That's the word from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, which plans to release a report on the economics of 14 energy efficiency program administrators with particularly high energy savings.
The forthcoming report finds the average cost of the programs to be about 3.5 cents per kWh saved, says ACEEE in a recently published fact sheet. “How Much Does Energy Efficiency Cost?”
This is signficantly lower than the 7.5 cents/kWh that the Environmental Protection Agency calculated in Clean Power Plan documentation for the first year of the federal program.
Why the difference?
To be fair, the EPA did call its figure conservative - overly so, says ACEEE.
“To us, it appears that the agency wanted a relatively high cost in order to show that even if costs are high, energy efficiency is cost effective,” said ACEEE. “Most likely, energy efficiency will cost program administrators under 4 cents per kWh saved, much less than a new power plant. EPA's very conservative numbers are higher, but still show an energy efficiency cost that is likely to be less than most new power plants.”
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Lighting the way with LaaS
More and more energy products are being offered 'as-a-service', where customers pay a subscription fee for an outside party to operate the system. And lighting is no exception. In a new report, Navigant Research forecasts that global revenue from lighting as a service (LaaS) will grow from $35.2 million in 2016 to $1.6 billion in 2025.
“Navigant Research defines LaaS as the third-party management of a lighting system that may include additional technical, maintenance, financial, or other services,” says Benjamin Freas, principal research analyst with Navigant Research. “These offerings can begin with the installation of a lighting system, continue through maintenance and management, and include the recycling or disposal of equipment at the end of its life.”
Building owners seek out LaaS to overcome one of the main barriers to installing new sophisticated lighting and lighting controls - lack of experience in operating them.
Several companies are beginning to offer various forms of LaaS, as they experiment with how best to meet customer needs, according to the report. Navigant Research anticipates that these efforts represent the start of a trend that is expected to mature and grow rapidly during the next 10 years.
An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Navigant Research website.
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New York's energy efficiency bragging rights
New York is reporting some big numbers from its energy efficiency efforts. The state has undertaken 112,000 energy efficiency projects since 2012, which is expected to save customers $341 million annually and spur $800 million in private investment.
Both residential and commercial customers participated in the energy efficiency programs - 90,000 individual homes and 22,000 commercial buildings, including apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, art galleries and office buildings.
Homeowners are saving an average of $56 per month on electric and natural gas bills, and building owners are saving an average of $1,023 per month, according to a news release issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo's office.
In all, the projects will reduce annual electricity demand by 2 million MWh/year, the equivalent of saving enough electricity to power more than 275,000 average-size homes. They will also reduce annual heating fuel demand by 9 trillion Btu, the equivalent of heating more than 85,000 average-size homes, according to the state.
In his State of the State address, Cuomo vowed to increase energy efficiency of 500,000 households and 20,000 businesses by 2020. To meet this goal, the state will invest part of its Clean Energy Fund to help property owners and renters audit their current energy use to identify energy savings opportunities and replace inefficient systems and appliances with high-efficiency models wherever possible.
Learn more about New York's clean energy efforts at the Microgrid Knowledge 2016 conference, which will be May 19 in Manhattan.
Energy Efficiency is Still Cheaper than Building Power Plants
Energy efficiency is still cheaper than building a new power plant. That's the word from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, which plans to release a report on the economics of 14 energy efficiency program administrators with particularly high energy savings.
The forthcoming report finds the average cost of the programs to be about 3.5 cents per kWh saved, says ACEEE in a recently published fact sheet. “How Much Does Energy Efficiency Cost?”
This is signficantly lower than the 7.5 cents/kWh that the Environmental Protection Agency calculated in Clean Power Plan documentation for the first year of the federal program.
Why the difference?
To be fair, the EPA did call its figure conservative - overly so, says ACEEE.
“To us, it appears that the agency wanted a relatively high cost in order to show that even if costs are high, energy efficiency is cost effective,” said ACEEE. “Most likely, energy efficiency will cost program administrators under 4 cents per kWh saved, much less than a new power plant. EPA's very conservative numbers are higher, but still show an energy efficiency cost that is likely to be less than most new power plants.”
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Lighting the way with LaaS
More and more energy products are being offered 'as-a-service', where customers pay a subscription fee for an outside party to operate the system. And lighting is no exception. In a new report, Navigant Research forecasts that global revenue from lighting as a service (LaaS) will grow from $35.2 million in 2016 to $1.6 billion in 2025.
“Navigant Research defines LaaS as the third-party management of a lighting system that may include additional technical, maintenance, financial, or other services,” says Benjamin Freas, principal research analyst with Navigant Research. “These offerings can begin with the installation of a lighting system, continue through maintenance and management, and include the recycling or disposal of equipment at the end of its life.”
Building owners seek out LaaS to overcome one of the main barriers to installing new sophisticated lighting and lighting controls - lack of experience in operating them.
Several companies are beginning to offer various forms of LaaS, as they experiment with how best to meet customer needs, according to the report. Navigant Research anticipates that these efforts represent the start of a trend that is expected to mature and grow rapidly during the next 10 years.
An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Navigant Research website.
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New York's energy efficiency bragging rights
New York is reporting some big numbers from its energy efficiency efforts. The state has undertaken 112,000 energy efficiency projects since 2012, which is expected to save customers $341 million annually and spur $800 million in private investment.
Both residential and commercial customers participated in the energy efficiency programs - 90,000 individual homes and 22,000 commercial buildings, including apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, art galleries and office buildings.
Homeowners are saving an average of $56 per month on electric and natural gas bills, and building owners are saving an average of $1,023 per month, according to a news release issued by Governor Andrew Cuomo's office.
In all, the projects will reduce annual electricity demand by 2 million MWh/year, the equivalent of saving enough electricity to power more than 275,000 average-size homes. They will also reduce annual heating fuel demand by 9 trillion Btu, the equivalent of heating more than 85,000 average-size homes, according to the state.
In his State of the State address, Cuomo vowed to increase energy efficiency of 500,000 households and 20,000 businesses by 2020. To meet this goal, the state will invest part of its Clean Energy Fund to help property owners and renters audit their current energy use to identify energy savings opportunities and replace inefficient systems and appliances with high-efficiency models wherever possible.
Learn more about New York's clean energy efforts at the Microgrid Knowledge 2016 conference, which will be May 19 in Manhattan.
California RFP Seeks Help with Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings
The Calfornia Energy Commission is seeking a consultant team to provide technical support for its programs to increase energy efficiency in existing buildings
The commission has up to $1 million available for the contract.
The team will help the commission implement portions of Assembly Bill 758 (Skinner, 2008), Senate Bill 350 (de Leon, 2015), and Assembly Bill 802 (Williams, 2015), and any other complementary mandates or executive orders. Among other things, the legislation focuses on updates to the state's Existing Buildings Energy Efficiency Action Plan; work on building energy-use benchmarking and public disclosure for nonresidential and multifamily buildings; and the state's authority to collect data for long-term demand forecasting for statewide resource planning.
The commission will choose the winner based on a point system. The team should have knowledge and experience concerning:
- Building energy use benchmarking and public disclosure programs
- Residential and nonresidential real estate purchase and sale requirements Residential building energy science and related energy modeling;
- Nonresidential building energy science and related energy modeling;
- Business and industry needs related to building energy use and efficiency savings;
- Building energy efficiency savings measurement and verification approaches using metered energy consumption data;
- Best practices and limitations of using calculated energy savings
- Behavior and comfort preferences that affect energy savings in electricity and gas retail end uses
- Building Energy Efficiency Standards and energy-related installation practices relevant to existing buildings;
- Utility and other ratepayer funded energy efficiency programs for residential and nonresidential buildings;
- Data analysis approaches that leverage and build upon available solutions.
- Best practices for data standardization, security and public accessibility in governmental and private agencies.
- Energy consumption forecasts and demand analysis
Bids are due April 18 for a two-year contract expected to begin in June.
For more details contact, Rachel Grant Kiley, contracts office manager; California Energy Commission; 1516 Ninth Street, MS-18; Sacramento, California 95814; (916) 654-4379; Rachel.Grant-Kiley@energy.ca.gov.
The RFP is available on the CEC website.
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