Managing Electricity Consumption with Demand Response: Maximize Your Bottomline By Minimizing Peak Loads

Managing Electricity Consumption with Demand Response: Maximize Your Bottomline By Minimizing Peak Loads

Demand Response is an increasingly popular component in addressing our nation’s aging electrical grid. Currently a fragmented market, Demand Response will be experiencing consolidation and growth as more businesses implement programs to achieve cost reduction and energy savings.

Smart Meter Upgrades and Market Opportunities

Smart Meter Upgrades and Market Opportunities

As a time-limited $19.5 billion market opportunity, meter and communications suppliers with be working with utilities around the world on replacing typical home and business electric meters with Smart Meters. Be prepared for empowered decision making around your business’s energy usage and energy costs.

EPA Releases Energy Star for Servers; A good First Step, but More Work Is Needed

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the 1.0 version of the Energy Star for Servers specification. This first release only covers standalone servers with one to four processor sockets; it does not yet cover servers with more than four processor sockets, or blade servers of any size. Three criteria are being weighted by the specification: power supply efficiency, virtualization functionality, and energy-efficiency benchmarks and standards for measuring and reporting energy use.