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Why Make Smart Buildings Smart Grid Compatible?
September 3rd, 2012Total World Sales of Building Energy Management Systems Hit $13.39b in 2011
August 27th, 2012Strategic Acquisitions in the Smart Building to Smart Grid Space
Although the Smart Building to Smart Grid Interface business is still in its infancy, just a quick take on the strategic acquisitions that have been made over the last 2 years makes a strong statement that the world’s major suppliers see this as a great opportunity to extend their business. They have invested heavily in […]
The Consumer Interface of the Smart Grid Business is where the Building Controls Suppliers are now Focused
Although the Smart Building to Smart Grid Interface business is still in its infancy, just a quick take on the strategic acquisitions that have been made over the last 2 years makes a strong statement that the world’s major suppliers see this as a great opportunity to extend their business. They have invested heavily in […]
The Smart Grid is Dead, Long Live Smart Grid
The literal meaning of the expression “The King is Dead – Long Live the King is that the king has died, and it is hoped that the new king will live a long time. But the reasoning for the statement goes deeper. A speedy succession, to the throne was needed to avoid a power vacuum […]
White Paper: Why Interfacing Smart Grid with Smart Buildings is the Perfect Union
The Central Electricity Generation, Transmission & Distribution business model for over a century has been to build and operate a base load capacity to meet the very maximum demand needed. This has created an inefficient system because central power generating plant cannot be rapidly ramped up and down and electricity cannot yet be stored on […]
White Paper: Strategic Acquisitions in the Smart Building to Smart Grid Space
Although the Smart Building Smart Grid Interface business is still in its infancy just a quick take on the strategic acquisitions that have been made over the last 2 years makes a strong statement that the world’s major suppliers see this as a great opportunity to extend their business for they have invested heavily in […]
Why Interfacing Smart Buildings With Smart Grid Will Develop Into Multi-Billion Dollar Business
There is an almost perfect case for interfacing Smart Buildings with Smart Grid because all the stakeholders win. It will require minimum technical and commercial risk and decades of latent potential business is stacked up waiting to be converted. The driver for this business is, Negawatts, through reducing consumption at the consumer end and reducing […]
Demand Response set to be a ‘Multi-Billion Market by 2016′
Demand response (DR) continues to evolve as the smart grid’s “killer application”, leveraging technology infrastructure to deliver measurable value to utilities, grid operators, and customers alike. The demand response market encompasses hardware, software, and services, but it is the services sector that is defining the future direction of the business, both within the United States […]
Why Negawatts & Distributed Energy Will Drive The Smart Building to Smart Grid Interface Business
At the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in London last week ministers from 23 economies – representing 90% of global renewables and efficiency investment, heard from the International Energy Agency that under current policies, carbon dioxide emissions will nearly double by 2050. “This would likely boost global temperatures by at least 6 degrees Celsius,” IEA deputy […]
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