Analysis from the first year of reporting under Seattle’s energy benchmarking ordinance has found the city’s building owners could save up to $90 million in utility bills while cutting emissions 42% per year.
Originally published on CleanTechnica sister site Green Building Elements. The Institute for Market Transformation has created an infographic on why benchmarking the energy use of buildings is important. I’m a huge fan of benchmarking, in general, and I’m also obviously a big fan of saving energy, so I think this … [continued]
From the good folks over at the PennFuture Energy Center (image added): Ignorance may be bliss, but it can be costly when it comes to energy usage. Commercial buildings in the U.S. account for 36 percent of total energy use and 65 percent of electricity consumption. Even small reductions … [continued]
Measuring and tracking the energy efficiency of its commercial buildings is now included in a formal benchmarking program that has been launched by the City of Seattle.
WASHINGTON –– The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week announced the release of an upgrade to its popular online energy management and tracking tool, Energy Star Portfolio Manager. The upgraded tool can help businesses achieve the President’s call to make commercial buildings at least 20 percent more energy efficient by … [continued]
As part of a second phase for its energy efficiency benchmarking programs that measure and rate a building’s energy performance, Seattle is sending letters to the owners of 8,000 buildings this week informing them of its building energy-efficiency program. The program is meant to help building owners and managers reduce energy costs using benchmarking.
In recent months it’s become clear that there’s a distinctly non-cottage industry in Germany producing unintentionally and intentionally misleading reports about hydrogen for energy. Today yet another significant and respected organization crossed my screen, dena, or the German Energy Agency. (Lower-case is their branding and it’s an acronym of a … [continued]
Argonne collaborates with multiple universities to advance new materials, devices for next-generation microchips While the microchips inside electronic devices like cell phones and computers are incredibly small, transistors — the tiny electrical switches inside of microchips — are approaching the atomic level. Today’s microchips pack over 100 million transistors in … [continued]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded NOAA $5 million to support the conversion of the Mauna Loa atmospheric baseline observatory in Hawaii to a net-zero carbon facility. The award, part of $250 million in funding announced by DOE’s Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies (AFFECT) program, will help NOAA’s Global … [continued]
The imperative to move faster from research to application of energy solutions gets a boost with AI trained to dramatically accelerate scientific discovery RICHLAND, Washington — The urgent need to meet global clean energy goals has world leaders searching for faster solutions. To meet that call, the Department of Energy’s … [continued]
