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The Army’s overall “energy intensity” went down last year, said the Army’s lead on energy-use reduction. “Just last year, overall, the Army’s energy use per square foot decreased by a little more than four percent,” said Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary of the Army for installations, energy and environment, adding the Army is on track with [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a report that documents the increased adoption of energy-efficient lighting products in the United States over the last decade. The 2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization examines the current conditions and broad trends in the U.S. lighting market, broken down by technology and sector. The report also details [...]
Energy-efficiency upgrades in U.S. apartment buildings could cut energy bills by almost $3.4 billion annually nationwide, according to a new report this week from think tanks CNT Energy and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. The estimate includes $2.03 billion in potential electricity savings and $1.34 billion in potential natural-gas savings from retrofits such [...]
The Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $3 million to help American manufacturers leverage energy efficiency as a path to increased competitiveness. Provided by the Advanced Manufacturing Office and the Building Technologies Program, the funding will support a Program Administrator whose role will be to promote and operate the American National Standards Institute [...]
Saving energy around the home is a pretty lonely task, so why not make a game of it? That’s the idea behind Simple Energy’s software that combines home energy technology and “game mechanics” in a way that’s gotten some San Diego Gas & Electric customers to cut their power bills in half — at least, [...]
The U.S. economy has tripled in size since 1970 and three-quarters of the new demand for energy comes from an amazing variety of advances in energy efficiency—not from other energy supplies. Going forward, the current economic recovery, and our future economic prosperity, will depend much more on energy-efficient behaviors and investments than we’ve seen in [...]
Reliant customers are learning what the smart energy future looks like with the Reliant e-Sense(R) Home Energy Monitor. More than 3,500 Reliant customers have received the free in-home display and the company is giving away 6,500 additional monitors to help customers make smarter energy decisions based on the unprecedented, near real-time information about their electricity [...]
Americans tend to beat themselves up over their imperfections. We eat too much, watch too much TV and owe China too much money. Despite all of our sloth, we can feel good about one area: our progress saving energy. A report issued this week by the Institute for Electric Efficiency found that we saved enough [...]
Fort Bliss in Texas has signed a $16 million energy-efficiency project with Johnson Controls. The deal is the first I’ve seen to emerge under President Barack Obama’s federal directive calling for the government to make more than $2 billion of improvements over the next two years in order to save money and to create jobs. [...]
SunMaxx Solar, Johnson Controls and Intelligent Green Solutions have installed a solar thermal system at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. The solar thermal system was installed for a domestic hot water heating system, which will preheat water for five of Fort Hood’s dining facilities. A total of 93 TitanPowerPlus SU2 series flat plate collectors were [...]