November 1, 2011
Special Section: Networked Controls
Lighting, HVAC, and controls improvements among most- implemented energy-efficiency measures in global survey ...
Evaluating the ability of retail demand-response strategies to meet the requirements of wholesale ancillary services...
How winner of Smartest Building in America Challenge leverages BAS to improve efficiency and environment ...
Features
This article will discuss the energy consumption of the three basic configurations of chilled-water piping currently in use: constant primary flow (CPF), constant primary flow/variable secondary flow (P/S), and variable primary flow (VPF). Also, it will discuss the attributes of equipment-room space, installed cost, and control complexity....
The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org) is an organization dedicated to helping the information technology industry improve energy efficiency in data centers. ...
Columns
Energy efficiency, environmental stewardism, "green" HVAC—we've been writing a lot about these topics, and you've been reading about them for several years now. Much of the focus on energy efficiency began as a way to stem our dependency, as a nation, on foreign energy sources (oil), but slowly evolved into a need to reduce the very negative impact of industrialization and carbon emissions into our atmosphere. ...
Reducing energy consumption can be hugely beneficial to a facility’s bottom line, but the second most direct route to decreasing energy costs is to manage the energy purchase itself. No single energy-procurement plan works for all companies. Business managers need to be aware of their options to make energy-purchasing decisions that will positively affect their bottom line....
Departments
Looking to expand a thriving colocation data-center business, LightBound LLC, an Indianapolis-based provider of business-technology services, including managed servers, data backup, disaster recovery, and cloud computing, set out to create a 47,000-sq-ft data center to handle server densities from 1 kw to 35 kw per rack with a uniform but flexible cooling solution....
News & Notes
After four years, there is a new No. 1 in the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s (ACEEE’s) annual ranking of best states for energy efficiency. ...
A new independent nationwide survey reveals that nearly three out of four Americans support federal investment in school-building improvements focused on creating healthier learning environments, saving tax dollars, or lowering carbon emissions. ...
Lynn G. Bellenger, PE, FASHRAE, the first female president in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers’ (ASHRAE’s) 116-year history, died Oct. 19. ...
Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International elected officers and directors during its 56th annual meeting in Kauai, Hawaii, Oct. 21. ...
MultiStack LLC, the Sparta, Wis.-based manufacturer of high-efficiency modular chillers for commercial, industrial, and government applications, is the winner in Danfoss' second annual EnVisioneer of the Year award competition. ...
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