FirstFuel Software announced that the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has selected its Remote Building Analytics (RBA) platform to help drive energy efficiency savings and meet key energy reduction targets across its entire U.S. building portfolio.

In response to the increasing rise of cyber threats, network compromises, and vulnerabilities directed at building systems, Lynxspring and Netop have announced the availability of LYNX CyberPRO™, a new cyber protection solution for building automation and energy management systems. 

With the groundwork for growth in place, the global installed base of homes with home energy management (HEM) systems, either standalone or networked, is forecast to grow from 4 million in 2013 to 87 million in 2022, according to a new report from Navigant Research.

EcoFactor®, a leader in cloud-based home energy services, has been awarded a United States patent (No. 8,556,188) for the use of geolocation data from smartphones and other mobile devices to optimize home energy management services.

The Energy@home Association has announced the release of JEMMA (Java-based Energy Management Application framework), an open-source project designed to facilitate the development of home energy management applications.

The scale of global investment in energy efficiency and its contribution to energy demand are as significant as those of other developed supply-side resources, stated the International Energy Agency (IEA) as it introduced a new report that describes the wide range of energy efficiency activities worldwide in market terms.

Both building energy management systems (BEMS) and enterprise energy management (EEM) have major parts to play in delivering distributed energy and demand response services connecting across smart buildings, says Memoori Business Intelligence Ltd. 

A new report on the market for building energy management systems (BEMS) and enterprise energy management (EEM), published by Memoori Business Intelligence Ltd., says total global sales of BEMS will be $16.7 billion in 2013, and it is forecast to grow to $23.14 billion by 2017.

EnerNOC Inc., a provider of energy intelligence software, announced that EnerNOC and the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) have won the 2013 Region I Energy Project of the Year Award from the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE).