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Virtual Power Plants Can “Relegate California Blackouts to the History Books”
October 14th, 2020Smart Buildings Offer a Scalable Foundation for Creating the Smart City
November 25th, 2019
Building-to-Grid Interconnectivity has “Far-Reaching Electricity Policy & Regulatory Implications”
The energy landscape is changing. Compelled by climate change and supply reliability drivers, our power systems are trying to find ways to introduce stable, clean, and affordable power to homes, businesses, and institutions. However, the variability of renewable generation and distributed energy resources (DERs) leads to complexity and as these systems expand across progressive electricity […]
The Threat to Microgrid Momentum
In this historic hurricane season, the fragility of existing energy infrastructure is on full display. One bright spot in all the coverage of Hurricane Harvey in Houston was that the microgrid equipped H.E.B. Grocery chain of stores kept its shops open and served the public, while power outages kept competitors closed. Each such microgrid success […]
Smart Buildings Can Be ‘The Nodes’ Of The Smart Grid
“As nodes of the smart grid, smart buildings will become increasingly active participants in the energy eco-system, moving beyond simply being served by the Smart Grid, they can also become an integral part of it”, this is just one of the findings from our recent reports: The Market for Building Performance Software 2016 to 2020 […]
Future City Glasgow Programme Reaches Two-year Milestone
In 2013, Glasgow beat a host of other UK cities to win funding worth £24m from the Technology Strategy Board (now known as Innovate UK) to explore innovative ways to use technology and data to make life in the city safer, smarter and more sustainable. Over the last two years, Glasgow has been developing a […]
Illinois C-CAP Project Networks Buildings for Advanced Demand Response
Environmental and consumer advocates, along with Illinois’ regional electric grid operator, launched an innovative pilot project this month to demonstrate how demand response can continue to support grid reliability year-round and lower electricity costs for Chicago businesses, institutions, government, and homeowners. The pilot program, called the Combined Capacity Asset Performance Project (C-CAP), is a collaboration […]
A Growth Spurt for Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems
A 2013 Memoori Report outlined that one of the main drivers for interfacing and integrating Smart Grid with Smart Buildings is to take advantage of distributed energy that is available in the many hundreds of thousands of smart buildings and industrial sites around the world. It stated that this development should be achieved through energy […]
Commercial and Industrial Smart Buildings Primed for Energy Storage
In the first quarter of 2015, 5.8 megawatts of energy storage systems were installed across the US, 16% higher than the same period in 2014 – according to a report released by GTM Research and Energy Storage Association last week. The US is forecast to deploy a total of 220 megawatts in 2015, more than […]
Honeywell and Tata Launch Automated Demand Response Project in Delhi
Last week Honeywell and Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL) announced that they have successfully implemented the first ever, automated demand response (ADR) project for commercial and industrial facilities in India. TPDDL is using Honeywell technology and services to link more than 160 buildings in its distribution network, and require temporary reductions in energy use when […]
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