Energy Information News

Exele TopView assists Flakeboard in Energy Savings
PennEnergy- Energy News (press release)
Using the data from the EMIS Audit an EMIS implementation plan was developed which included: a process to establish baseline data, selecting the appropriate meters for acquisition of energy usage data and development of a software specification for ...

The Big Promise of Big Data
PCWorld
This pursuit, made possible by a number of new technologies that are mostly open source is often referred to as big data. "It absolutely gives us a competitive advantage if we can better understand what people care about and better use the data we have ...

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DC Building Power: Emerging Trends, Application Drivers and Market Adoption ...
MarketWatch (press release)
For each sector an analysis identifying two key market penetration rates of adoption for dc power was used. The first is the "threshold" rate of market penetration required for dc technology to achieve in each sector in order to continue expanding.

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GE Nucleus: Home Energy Management System
Green-Buildings.com
The Nucleus device collects energy use information either by plugging it into any electrical outlet or communicating wirelessly with smart meters via ZigBee and Wifi radios. Additionally, the Nucleus can collect estimated consumption data from GE's ...

Data Center Knowledge
What's The True Meaning of DCIM?
Data Center Knowledge
This enterprise data center process helps data center operators address difficult challenges, including: Escalating energy costs, tight budgets, dwindling network capacity, limited floor space, and pressure for more uptime.

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DataGryd Opens Green Data Center Doors at Iconic 60 Hudson Street
SunHerald.com
The MicroGryd will enable overall power consumption to be reduced by up to 30 percent and will deliver significant reductions in energy usage and operating costs for customers. The Data Center also will have the unique capacity to load-shed for the New ...

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Groom Energy Releases Enterprise Smart Grid Research
MarketWatch (press release)
Enterprise Smart Grid is the integration of submetering, hardware and software by organizations that seek visibility, control and management of their energy consumption. According to Groom Energy's research, the new market represents a $5.2B industry ...
Ecova Named One to Watch in Groom Energy Enterprise Smart Grid ResearchEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)

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Server Technology Launches Sentry Power System at DataCenterDynamics New York City
Sacramento Bee
Serving the Data Center and Carrier markets, Server Technology offers the most extensive selection of cabinet PDUs to manage power usage for servers, storage and network equipment. Based on the innovative Server Tech Quality Power Architecture (QPA), ...

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DataGryd Opens Green Data Center Doors at Iconic 60 Hudson Street
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
The MicroGryd will enable overall power consumption to be reduced by up to 30 percent and will deliver significant reductions in energy usage and operating costs for customers. The Data Center also will have the unique capacity to load-shed for the New ...

DataGryd Opens Green Data Center Doors at Iconic 60 Hudson Street
MarketWatch (press release)
The MicroGryd will enable overall power consumption to be reduced by up to 30 percent and will deliver significant reductions in energy usage and operating costs for customers. The Data Center also will have the unique capacity to load-shed for the New ...

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Data Center Knowledge
Data Center Pulse IDs Top 10 Industry Challenges
Data Center Knowledge
Aligning applications to availability requirements can lowers costs, even as it increases the uptime of a service. 5. Renewable Power Options: The lack of cost-effective renewable power is a growing problem for data centers, which use enormous volumes ...

Globe and Mail
Japan utilities Feb LNG consumption rises yr/yr
Reuters
The utilities burned 5.00 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) equivalent last month compared with 3.47 million tonnes a year earlier, data from the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan showed. They generated 84.59 billion ...
How US Banking Wasted Its Fukushima MomentUS Banker
Japan barely improves nuclear regulatory systemSeattle Post Intelligencer

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Environmental Leader
Microsoft to track global footprint with CarbonSystems roll out
Business Green
The company said the system would also allow it to accurately assess the impact, payback period, and return on investment of efficiency initiatives, such as projects to reduce the energy consumption of data centres, deploy low carbon fleets, and use ...
Microsoft Adopts CarbonSystems Software as Global Standard for Environmental ...MarketWatch (press release)
Microsoft tracks greenhouse gases in the cloudComputing
Microsoft looks to the cloud to cut its carbon footprintComputer Business Review

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World Energy Consumption Since 1820 in Charts
Forex Rate It!
This rise in energy consumption is primarily from increased fossil fuel use. Figure 1. World Energy Consumption by Source, Based on Vaclav Smil estimates from Energy Transitions: History, Requirements and Prospects together with BP Statistical Data for ...

Globe and Mail
Japan utilities Feb gas usage rises 44 pct yr/yr
Reuters
Yet, the utilities generated more electricity than a year earlier for the first time in a year, the data from the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan also showed, helped by heating demand due to colder than usual weather.
GUEST COLUMN: Fukushima brought extensive changes to attitudes in Japan - but ...Helsingin Sanomat
How US Banking Wasted Its Fukushima MomentUS Banker
Japan barely improves nuclear regulatory systemSeattle Post Intelligencer

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LEED 2012 for data centers and healthcare
Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Power utilization effectiveness (PUE) must be reported and two systems must be modeled: one for the building's energy costs and another for IT energy costs. PUE is the ratio of total data center energy use including process loads to regulated energy ...

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Steps Industry Can Take to Reduce Energy Consumption
IndustryWeek
The study found that many organizations lack the skills, technology, or incentives to monitor and evaluate energy usage at even a facility or site level. Without seeing and assessing facility energy-usage data, these firms are unlikely to reduce costs ...

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Report lists possible uses for DOE site
Chillicothe Gazette
PIKETON -- An independent report on the future re-use of the Department of Energy site in Piketon was released this past week by Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership. Faculty and staff at the school, which conducts research and grants ...

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Gasoline Falls on Concern Lower Chinese Exports May Cut Fuel Use
BusinessWeek
In the US, gasoline consumption slipped 1.2 percent in the week ended March 2, and the amount of the fuel supplied over the prior four weeks was 7.8 percent below a year earlier, Energy Department data show. Total fuel use over the four weeks ended ...

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Emerson Network Power Introduces Latest Release of Aperture Suite for Managing ...
Telecom Reseller (press release)
The rapid adoption of server virtualization enables potential reductions in data center energy consumption, while introducing new management challenges associated with aligning virtual and physical resources. The virtual management capabilities in the ...