Enernoc (ENOC), an emerging leader in demand response networks, has signed a deal with one of Vermont’s largest electric utilities, Green Mountain Power allowing its customers to save on energy costs by reducing their energy usage during peak demand. Customers currently enrolled in Green Power’s demand response system will be rolled into EnerNOC’s system and the two companies will work together to add more commercial, institutional and industrial customers to the demand response network. Companies … Read the rest
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Xcel (XEL) Energy Announces 3-Year Minnesota Conservation Plan
Xcel Energy just announced a 3-year plan for conserving energy in its Minnesota service area. Through the plan, which includes items like conservation kits for low-income customers and incentives like rebates for customers who install solar panels, Xcel expects to cut expected demand by320 megawatts of power and 2.4 million dekatherms of natural gas during the 3-year span. This will eliminate the need for a medium-sized conventional power plant that would emit 1 million metric … Read the rest
Comverge (COMV) Gets Approval For 165MW Demand Response Contract, Secures 680MW Capacity
Comverge (COMV), a demand response up and comer similar to EnerNoc (ENOC), has announced this morning that it has approved regulatory approval for its 15 year, 125 MW contract with Arizona Public Services originally announced in September of last year. It’s the largest commercial & industrial VPC demand response contract in the industry to date and will enable Arizona Public Services to help its customers reduce the amount of electricity that is required at peak … Read the rest
Borg Warner (BWA): "This Will Be The Ignition Technology Of the Future"
Alison first wrote about Borg Warner as a fuel efficiency play following the government announcement of stricter fuel standards a few weeks ago. Today, the company appears to be an even better play for the trend to lighter, more efficient vehicles. The company is announcing it has purchased the advanced ignition technology from Florida based Etatech that will improve peak energy efficiency (by 40%) and reduce emissions (by 50 – 80%). The company wants to … Read the rest
General Electric (GE) Producing Hybrid Water Heaters
General Electric just announced that it will be producing highly energy efficient hybrid water heaters in Louisville, Kentucky. The hybrid water heaters are the first water heaters to meet the Department of Energy’s stricter 2009 Energy Star standards. The water heaters use about 1/2 the energy of conventional water heaters. Manufacturing them in Kentucky will also create about 400 new jobs.
In a post on the Sustainability Ninja, James Campbell, GE’s Consumer and Industrial President … Read the rest
Xcel Energy Partners With 42U To Improve Data Center Efficiency
Xcel Energy just announced a partnership with 42U as part of its Data Center Efficiency Program. Under the agreement, 42U will work with Xcel Energy’s data center customers to help them find ways to become more efficient and use less energy.
42U will act as a consultant to participating Xcel customers, reviewing their operations and making recommendations. Xcel Customers can get rebates for each kilowatt of energy saved after they make the suggested improvements.
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Capstone Turbine (CPST) Receives 3 Microturbine China Orders
Capstone Turbine (CPST) announced that it has received an order for three C200 microturbine systems for China Southern Power Grid (CSG), one of two state owned power grid companies in China. The low emission, natural gas powered turbines will be installed in a CSG dispatch building as a test project to show the benefits of microturbines in a combined cooling heat and power application.
China doesn’t currently have a standard grid-interconnection policy for distributed power … Read the rest
GE Energy (GE) Hooks Colorado Springs Utilities Up With Smart Grid Technologies
GE Energy just announced that it has installed smart grid technologies for Colorado Springs Utilities to help them better manage power flow and customer communication in their service area. Here’s more on the announcement, from Trading Markets:
The newly installed GE PowerOn Outage Management System (OMS) helps CSU respond more quickly to power outages, while providing consumers with updated restoration-time estimates when outages do occur.
GE said that it is currently enhancing the system … Read the rest
San Jose Selects Echelon (ELON) Technology For LED Streetlight Initiative
Echelon’s (ELON) LonWorks technology will be used in California’s first smart streetlight project in San Jose which is part of the City’s Green Vision. The plan calls for a transformation of San Jose into an epicenter of clean technology and innovation in order to promote green energy and limit energy use.
125 streetlights will be converted to use LED and will be controlled with Echelon’s power line networking technology and segment controllers, improving quality, decreasing … Read the rest
American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) Gets Korean Order For Superconductor Power Cable
American Superconductor Corporation just announced that it has received an order for 80,000 meters of its 344 superconductor wire from a Korean company, LS Cable. LS Cable will use the wire to improve the power grid in the city of Seoul, South Korea. Under the agreement, AMSC will deliver the wire by the end of this year, and LS cable will use it to create a 50 MW superconductor cable system. The high capacity and … Read the rest