CLEAResult, a leader in designing and implementing energy efficiency programs for utilities, announced that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the assets of Conservation Services Group (CSG), a leading provider of residential energy efficiency programs in the United States.

The global residential energy management market was an estimated $2.86 billion in 2014 and is forecast to reach $15.6 billion by 2019, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.4 percent between 2014 and 2019, according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets.

The public campaign is designed to enhance understanding and acceptance of geothermal technology as an unlimited, renewable form of energy and serve to advance the industry and its dedicated stakeholders, including equipment manufacturers, drillers, installing contractors, industry associations, residential home developers, and homeowners. 

GEO provided comments to a CEC Workshop Docket, addressing problems with the Title 24 energy code for building permits that limits the use of geothermal heat pumps in the state.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reference case projections in its Annual Energy Outlook 2015, domestic energy consumption is expected to grow at a modest 0.3 percent per year through 2040, less than half the rate of population growth.

Having shown its effectiveness in Germany and Europe, MeteoViva is now bringing its energy-efficiency technology, MeteoViva Climate, to the United States market. With its patented software solution, the company claims it can reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions up to 40 percent in office and industrial buildings.

The Atlanta City Council unanimously passed a building energy benchmarking and disclosure ordinance. Two days later, the Portland, Oregon, City Council unanimously adopted its own benchmarking ordinance, making Atlanta and Portland the 12th and 13th U.S. cities, respectively, to adopt such policies.

Rising health care costs, competitive industry pressures, and concerns over stable power supplies in the face of recent severe natural disasters have generated a new and concentrated focus on the ways in which health care facilities procure, use, and manage energy, notes Navigant Research.

Worldwide capacity of distributed energy storage systems (DESS) is expected to grow from 276 MW in 2015 to nearly 2,400 MW in 2018. 

Today, there are 20 GW of installed solar capacity in the U.S. — enough to power more than 4 million homes — with another 20 GW projected to come online by the end of 2016.