by Paul Kenney | Jul 10, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Emerging Technologies Leading to More Efficient Buildings, Say Industry Leaders WASHINGTON, D.C.—Emerging and maturing technologies such as natural gas, variable speed air conditioning, solar power, combined heat and power (CHP), and energy storage are reducing...
by Paul Kenney | Jun 26, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Texas Inmates Sue Over Lack of Air Conditioning NAVASOTA, Texas—Claiming that even the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is air conditioned, prisoners in Texas have filed a federal lawsuit over high temperatures in state prisons that they say have killed at least 12...
by Paul Kenney | Jun 26, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
New Yorkers Can Control Their AC Over the Internet for Free NEW YORK—New York City residents now can remotely control their air conditioners via the Internet for free. As part of the “CoolNYC” program from local utility Con Edison, customers can request a...
by Paul Kenney | Jun 12, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Decentralization of Electricity Grid Leading to ‘Personal Power Plants’ FORT COLLINS, Colo.—A medium-sized city north of Denver is ground zero for one of the most ambitious energy agendas of any municipality in the United States. Fort Collins, Colo.,...
by Paul Kenney | May 29, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Scientists Find New Way to Harvest Waste Heat PALO ALTO, Calif.—Researchers at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a new alternative for low-temperature waste-heat conversion into electricity—that is, in cases where...
by Paul Kenney | May 29, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Controls Could Halve Packaged HVAC Energy Use, Says Study RICHLAND, Wash.—Commercial buildings could cut their heating and cooling electricity use by an average of 57% with advanced energy-efficiency controls, according to a year-long trial of the controls at malls,...
