Energy Efficiency Archives

Schneider Electric Canada Strengthens Commercial Leadership to Help Customers Navigate the New Energy Landscape

August 11, 20263 weeks Press Release 0 Comments

Expanded leadership roles for Shaun MacGarvie and Sophie Chadefaud reinforce Schneider Electric’s commitment to helping customers accelerate efficiency, resilience, and sustainability outcomes. MILTON, Ontario — Schneider Electric Canada is strengthening its commercial leadership to help customers navigate the new energy landscape. As the world’s most sustainable energy technology company, Schneider … [continued]

TFIE Strategy Briefing graphic showing data-center electricity demand as a small share of the global power system, with a much larger concentration of demand in the United States.

AI power demand is growing quickly, but the global electricity denominator remains large.

AI Data Centers Are A Regional US Grid Issue, Not A Global Power Crisis

August 11, 20263 weeks Michael Barnard 0 Comments

AI has changed the data-center electricity story. Demand is rising much faster than it did through much of the 2000s and 2010s, hyperscale facilities are being proposed and built at extraordinary scale, and utilities in several US regions are confronting loads large enough to affect generation planning, substations, transformers and … [continued]

Colorado District Court Latest to Dismiss Industry Lawsuit against Building Updates

August 10, 20263 weeks Sierra Club 0 Comments

Denver’s Energy Code aims to cut pollution, energy bills for households & businesses A Colorado District Court Judge has dismissed a corporate-backed lawsuit against Denver ordinances aimed at reducing air pollution from buildings and reducing energy bills for owners and tenants. The court agreed with arguments made by the City of Denver and Sierra … [continued]

A. O. Smith Partners with Panasonic to Bring a CO2 Split HPWH to Market

August 10, 20263 weeks Joe Wachunas 0 Comments

Split heat pump water heaters (HPWH), where the compressor and tank are separated, are having a moment. Several new products have come to market this year, and more are on the way. To add to this excitement, A. O. Smith, one of the “big three” manufacturers in US water heating, … [continued]

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Is All-Electric Living Possible In A Basic Summer Home?

August 10, 20263 weeks Carolyn Fortuna 0 Comments

Like many people today, I am able to work remotely. My primary home is on the Atlantic coast of Florida, but, for ten or twelve weeks in the summer, I move to Connecticut. I own a modular home in a rural seasonal community that was established in the 1960s. It’s … [continued]

New Anti-Energy Efficiency Bill Will Cost Consumers, Waste Energy

August 7, 20263 weeks Sierra Club 0 Comments

Washington, DC — Yesterday, Senator Mike Lee (R-AZ) introduced a bill that would roll back existing energy efficiency standards and prevent the Department of Energy from updating existing or implementing new strong efficiency standards. The bill would result in energy waste, adding extra strain to the grid and raising energy … [continued]

Affordable Homes, Cooling Centers, and a Faster Grid? Yes, Please

July 27, 20261 month US Department of Energy 0 Comments

How 4 Companies Are Working To Bring New Technologies to Communities in Need—With Help From National Laboratory Experts By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy and Stacy Parker, NLR A year after the Palisades and Eaton wildfires destroyed more than 13,000 homes in Los Angeles County, fewer than a dozen had been rebuilt. Rebuilds … [continued]

EU Backs Electrification to Make Europe More Secure

July 21, 20261 month Transport & Environment (T&E) 0 Comments

EU Commission identifies grids as a bottleneck for electrification, promising to standardise vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology The EU Commission has announced an electrification target of 46% by 2040 — doubling the current level. Accelerating electrification is crucial if Europe is to reduce its reliance on imported fossil fuels. Prioritising transport — … [continued]

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Head of IEA Roasts Europe for “Slow Electrification”

July 12, 20262 months Z. S. 0 Comments

Europe still uses a lot of fossil fuels. Four years since Russian invaded Ukraine and threw European energy supply into chaos, one would think the continent would have electrified heating and transport more in order to quickly ween itself off of fossil fuel dependence. Well, Fatih Birol, executive director of … [continued]

Energy Intelligence Platform Florion Launched to Help South African Businesses Navigate a New Era of…

July 11, 20262 months Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai 0 Comments

Florion, a first-of-its-kind South African energy intelligence business co-founded by Robert Futter, has launched in South Africa. Futter brings more than 20 years of advisory experience in energy, infrastructure, and project finance. Florion says the South African energy market is changing based on technology interventions, market reform/liberalisation, and flexible “complex” … [continued]