Everyone knew Lightfair 2011 was going to be all about LEDs.
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Everyone knew Lightfair 2011 was going to be all about LEDs.
Topics: LED lighting, Lightfair 2009, Lightfair 2010, commercial led lighting, LED 2.0, Lightfair 2011, LightFair, industrial led lighting, Enterprise LED Lighting
Today’s hype around Smart Grid 2.0 continues to be focused on utilities and the homeowner.
Topics: demand control, energy monitoring, Sub-metering, demand side management, Enterprise SmartGrid, Behavior Change, meter data management, Enterprise Smart Grid
In 2008, when Groom Energy named and published the first report on “Enterprise Carbon Accounting” (ECA) the corporate world was just starting to track their GHG emissions as a new metric for their company’s sustainability efforts. The financial markets hadn’t yet collapsed and EHS managers were using speadsheets to build GHG baselines and begin regular reporting to the EPA’s Climate Leaders and the Carbon Disclosure Project. We tracked initially 40, and later 75, software vendors with GHG tracking and reporting solutions for this new market.
Topics: Enterprise Carbon Accounting, Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA), 2011 EECA report, EECA, ECA, Enterprise Energy and Carbon Accounting (EECA)
With last night’s tax bill passage by the House, the renewable energy industry has been given a wonderful holiday gift. But this toy’s battery only lasts one year and you might not be able to replace it.
Topics: Solar PV, Federal Grants, renewable grants, Section 1603, Renewable Energy
Tomorrow we’re announcing the publication of our research report Enterprise LED Lighting, distributed with our partners at GreentechMedia.
Topics: LED lighting, C&I lighting, C&I LED lighting, commercial led lighting, industrial led lighting, Digital Lumens, LED retrofit, Enterprise LED Lighting, cold storage
Today I’m attending the 27th annual NAESCO conference in Phoenix, AZ, a conference that serves as an annual checkpoint for the ESCO industry.
Topics: Energy Efficiency, Solar PV, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant pro, ESCO, performance contracting, Investment Tax Credit
Ever notice that when politicians tour a factory they remove their sportcoats? If you’ve walked an industrial plant you know it can be a pretty sweaty experience. An energy engineer knows this heat can represent a big energy efficiency opportunity.
The most common waste heat recovery application reuses flue or stack heat to produce hot water. With heat exchangers tightly coupled to machines the heat can be captured into water and transported into another hot water process thereby reducing boiler loads. Where an industrial process is less continuous, hot water storage tanks (energy storage) can be added, which cost more, but enable the time shifting use of the waste heat. Where an industrial process produces extremely high temperatures exhaust (1000 degree +) a potentially more powerful opportunity exists – turning this heat into steam, a much higher density energy source than hot water.
Topics: waste heat recovery, ORC, Stirling, Organic Rankine Cycle, Industrial Waste Heat Recapture
Labor Day typically marks the time when our year-end project installation schedule becomes more clear. Our corporate customers, often operating on a fiscal-calendar year for budgeting, also exhibit end-of-year psychology and “get it done by year end” becomes a priority. Normal product lead times, procurement contracts, permits, and even potential interruptions from winter weather means by Labor Day our construction year is pretty much set.
This year many cleantech project developers have even more tension leading up to their 2011 New Year’s party planning. With Section 1603, the US Federal program for renewable Grants in Lieu of an Investment Tax Credit (ITC), set to expire at the end of 2010, projects which are not at least 5% underway by year end will miss the proverbial party.
Topics: Grant in Lieu of Investment Tax Credit, Solar PV, Power Purchase Agreement, Clean Energy grants, Section 1603, Renewable Energy
Recently in conducting our corporate energy assessments, we’ve come across more frequent situations where our customers are incurring high demand charges from their utilities. In most cases they haven’t known the relative size of these charges, nor that they can often be reduced or even avoided.
As we dig in, studying interval data from their utility bills and correlating usage with their operations, we typically discover that large loads (ventilation, chillers, machinery) can be time shifted an hour or two with limited impact to the overall business. Depending on the size of the load, time of day and the utility’s demand charge rate, this can have huge dollar savings impact.
Topics: Energy Cost, Demand charges, Time shifting energy use, Demand Charge Reduction, real time electricity pricing
Attendees witnessed a dramatic shift at this week’s Lightfair 2010, the lighting industry’s most visible, 20th annual conference and tradeshow – LED’s have become the dominant lighting technology in virtually every session, presentation and vendor booth. Goodbye fluorescent, halogen, high intensity discharge, induction, you’re all passe’, OLEDs your time will come….
While Lightfair 2009 was a coming out party for LED’s, this year EVERY possible lighting application, from 2 watt dimmable candelabras to 200 watt street lighting, was on display. LED chip performance has increased another 30% since last year and manufacturers have seen the proverbial light. UL’s engineering teams are now overwhelmed with the volume of pending new applications they need to review.
Topics: LED lighting, LM79, Lightfair 2010, commercial led lighting, SSL, LightFair, LM80, L70, industrial led lighting
