The function of coils in heating and cooling systems is to transfer heat from one medium to another, either extracting heat from a building and expelling it outside or vice versa. Depending on the application, different technologies are available to ensure thermal energy is transferred as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.
There are now 310 Better Buildings Challenge partners who are set to achieve goals of at least 20 percent energy reduction within 10 years. Together they represent 34,000 buildings and facilities, 4.2 billion square feet of commercial space, and $5.5 billion dollars in energy-efficiency investments.
Two prominent grocery chains in the Upper Midwest are reducing their energy use and cutting energy cost by retro-commissioning their stores. The chains have done so with the help of SINGH360, a service provider that specializes in working with grocery chains.
DOE has rescheduled its public meeting regarding the notice of proposed rulemaking for portable air conditioners to Wednesday, July 20, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in Washington, District of Columbia.
Encycle™ has announced the public release of its HVAC Visibility reports, part of its overall Energy as a Service by Encycle (EASE) solution. The solution is designed to maximize the performance of HVAC systems to save commercial and industrial companies money while reducing their carbon footprint.
Panoramic Power, a provider of device-level energy management solutions, has announced the release of Device Analyzer, what the company calls a new data-science approach to energy management that generates actionable energy and operational efficiency insights.
The national weighted change is 47.8 percent more energy efficient than Standard 90.1-2013 based on site energy and 47.8 percent more energy efficient than 90.1-2013 based on source energy.
Budderfly LLC, a provider of energy management solutions, has been recognized as a 2016 Gartner Cool Vendor in Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions. By adding IoT devices and advanced software to an existing infrastructure, Budderfly’s solution is said to be able to enhance the energy efficiency performance of any building.
As the cost of advanced sensors has decreased and the amount of computational power and data storage has increased, buildings have become data-rich environments, notes Navigant Research.