ABCO HVACR Supply + Solution’s ABCO University is hosting its ninth annual Vocational Field Day on Dec. 10, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at its Somerville, Massachusetts, office and distribution center. All Somerville and greater Boston area high school students, guidance counselors, and teachers are invited to attend.

DTE Energy will issue a request for proposal (RFP) for a package of energy-efficiency programs whose vendor contracts expire. The company will seek two-year contracts for programs that include HVAC and home performance with insulation and windows.

Predicting radiative heat transfer between extremely close objects has proven elusive for the past 50 years. Now, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mathematicians have derived a formula for determining the maximum amount of heat exchanged between two objects separated by distances shorter than the width of a single hair.

Direct Energy®, one of North America’s leading energy and energy-related services providers, has combined its residential and home services divisions to create a single division, called Direct Energy Home™. The new division will focus on serving customers’ entire home, including providing energy and services, and more.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $125 million in funding for 41 cutting-edge energy technologies awarded by its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). These new projects are funded under ARPA-E’s OPEN 2015 program.

While the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve and expand, moving from planning to execution, commercial enterprise momentum is growing. According to a new global IoT decision maker survey from International Data Corp., 73 percent of respondents have already deployed IoT solutions or plan to deploy in the next 12 months.