Richland, Penn., is among several municipalities in the state to have paid money for energy upgrades that were never delivered. In 2009, Richland paid $165,488 upfront to energy consulting company Municipal Energy Managers to help the town secure ownership of its streetlights and to help it install LED bulbs in the lights. But Municipal Energy …Continue Reading
The new $18 million, 45,000-sq-foot Aquatic and Community Centre in Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec, employs a 500-ft-deep geothermal field, exhaust air heat recovery for preheating outside air, dehumidifier compressor heat recovery for free pool water heating, and a reduced refrigerant HVAC dehumidifier strategy. The city will achieve a four-year payback, save millions of dollars in energy …Continue Reading
Colorado State University’s Center for the New Energy Economy (CNEE) has gone live with an online database of energy-related legislation pending in all 50 states. The Advanced Energy Legislation (AEL) Tracker, which was created in partnership with Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), is available to the general public. Currently, state legislatures are considering more than 2,100 …Continue Reading
Ameresco has begun work on an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) with Lewis and Clark County, Mont., in which Ameresco will install over $1.6 million of energy efficiency improvements at 28 county-owned buildings. The project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2013, and the improvements are projected to save the county about …Continue Reading
Facing several legislative mandates to reduce energy consumption, Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Fla., launched a strategic energy master plan, which includes McKenney’s bdoc Building Intelligence energy management system integrated with Splunk Enterprise software. When it is fully deployed, bdoc will use machine data from more than 20,000 sensors deployed in more than 100 …Continue Reading
An official advisory committee has recommended that the federal government continue to use LEED as its main standard for energy efficiency and other green building attributes, FederalNewsRadio.com reports. The Green Building Advisory Committee, set up to advise facilities management agency the General Services Administration, concluded by a 10-6 vote that LEED was the best standard to …Continue Reading
A building energy “tune-up” procedure developed by researchers at Texas A&M University’s Energy Systems Lab has so far yielded more than $100 million in energy savings from around 300 client buildings, the college has announced. Developed by the university’s Energy Systems Laboratory in 1995, the energy tune-up, known as Continuous Commissioning, has been used by public …Continue Reading
Renewable energy parks are at the forefront of discussions lately; in fact, the US Department of Energy (DOE) recently held a webinar to showcase communities that have integrated multiple energy technologies to create renewable energy parks in their areas. What is a Renewable Energy Park? A renewable energy park, or “energy park” is an evolving …Continue Reading
Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman(R-OH) reintroduced their Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, an energy efficiency bill that is supported by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Alliance to Save Energy and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association among others. The bill is is scheduled for a Tuesday hearing in the Senate Energy and …Continue Reading
New York City is replacing all its streetlights, about 300,000 bulbs, with LEDs and expects to complete the project by 2019, resulting in a 35 percent decrease in energy consumption for streetlights. Margaret Newman, chief of staff for the NYC Department of Transportation, told GreenBiz that The Central Park installation has been completed with about …Continue Reading
