The Air Conditioning Contractors of America Educational Institute (ACCA-EI) Standards Task Team (STT) has announced an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) public review period for its BSR/ACCA 14 QMref -201x, “Quality Maintenance of Commercial Refrigeration Systems” as a new industry standard.

EnerNOC Inc. announced that Weis Markets, a Mid-Atlantic food retailer, has expanded deployment of EnerNOC’s energy intelligence software across its entire chain of 163 supermarkets located in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

A new 2,000-square-foot, two-story home is being built inside The Helix innovation center by Emerson Climate Technologies to serve as a working laboratory, enabling faster testing of future innovations in comfort, energy savings, and connected home concepts.

GE and project partners Kofler Energies and BELECTRIC announced they are putting a hybrid power plant into operation in Berlin that combines solar photovoltaic with combined heat and power (CHP) technology and battery storage.

On Controls, a provider of cloud-based smart home and commercial control solutions for professional installers, has announced the appointment of three U.S. independent sales firms along with three international distributors in important European markets.

Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc., franchisor of the Arby’s brand, announced that its Efficiency Matters program received a Top Project of the Year Award in the Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards.

Emergent Coils announced it is now offering tube bundles and heat exchangers for a variety of industries and applications, including HVAC and refrigeration.

Growing use of plug loads in buildings as well as insufficient data on how much energy they generate present a challenge to engineers in determining how to best cool a building. ASHRAE has announced a new standard that provides guidance to meet that challenge.

The winning entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) 2015 Race to Zero Student Design Competition includes a HVAC system that is so efficient, it would generate only $282 in annual heating costs, and $38 for cooling.

The global geothermal heat pumps market is forecast to reach $130.5 billion by the end of 2020, exhibiting a 13.1 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2020, according to a new market research report from Transparency Market Research.