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  • Traditional System Jump into the Smart Buildings Game

    The race is on to demonstrate that your integrated building energy management platform will drive Smart Buildings. Headlines are popping up every day announcing new ways to increase energy efficiency, drive down electricity consumption, or effectively participate in demand response programs. Will we see integrated energy management platforms promote smart buildings that can shrink the sector's energy consumption from 40% of the US energy pie?

  • Will Offshore Wind be a US Energy Industry Game Changer?

    On Oct. 7, the Department of Energy released "<a href="http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy10osti/40745.pdf">Large-Scale Offshore Wind Power in the United States: Assessment of Opportunities and Barriers</a>."&amp;nbsp; A couple highlights from this 240-page document authored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL):

  • Energy Management Moving Facilities to Smart Buildings

    Today Comverge, a major player in the demand response market, launched its rebrand - Intelligent Energy Management software, hardware, and services "that help utilities, commercial and industrial (C&amp;I) organizations and consumers optimize energy use." At the same time EnerNOC a major competitor in the demand response space has also been marketing its services as a means for "transforming the way the world uses energy."

  • NetComm continues Nth America expansion

    ASX-listed networking vendor, Netcomm, has reported it is continuing its penetration of the North American market, signing up Canadian company Rogers Communications.

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