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If the Fan Belt Breaks on the Rooftop, Does Anybody Hear It?
May 22, 2013
A number of new technologies offer the potential to gain greater efficiencies from existing rooftop air-conditioning units. These technologies—which include such functionality as fault detection, diagnostics, and demand-controlled ventilation—are proving promising in early trials.
Content type: Tech Brief | Document ID: TAS-TB-5 | Author: Peter Criscione
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Nest and DR, Latest EV Analysis, Black Boxes, and More
May 7, 2013
May 2013 issue of E Source Tech News.
Content type: Service E-mail | Document ID: TAS-TN-5-13
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Capture Smart Thermostats for Demand Response While People Care About Them
April 30, 2013
Learn how to leverage a recent resurgence in customer interest in smart thermostats for energy savings and demand response.
Content type: E NEWS | Document ID: ENews-4-13 | Author: Rachel Reiss Buckley
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Can Smart Thermostats Rise from the Ashes of Their Programmable Predecessors?
September 26, 2012 | Updated: April 29, 2013
The latest wave of thermostats are designed to deliver everything traditional programmable thermostats couldn’t. With powerful communications capabilities and on-board smarts, these smart thermostats can offer much more to both utilities and consumers.
Content type: Focus Report | Document ID: TAS-F-2 | Author: Lee Hamilton
Drinking from the Fire Hose Never Tasted So Good
Wrapping Up the 2013 Energy Managers' Roundtable
April 29, 2013
It’s been a wild week at the E Source Energy Managers’ Roundtable. From building energy analytics and information technologies to deep energy retrofits and behavior-change strategies, we covered a lot of ground in just a few short days.
Content type: E Source Blog | Document ID: ES-Blog-4-29-13-EMR-Day3 | Author: Bryan Jungers - Research Manager
EMR 2013 Presentation
April 26, 2013
During much of 2012, we collaborated with a team of architects and engineers to design the renovation of a 1980s office building that’s now E Source’s new home. To get the building up to our standards, we reduced its energy consumption by more than a third by specifying new daylighting, lighting, ...
Content type: Slides | Author: Jay Stein
Efficient Refrigeration Systems' Eco-Assist
EMR 2013 Presentation
April 25, 2013
Energy-efficiency technologies change fast. Brilliant new solutions and ineffective “black boxes” are released constantly—it can be difficult to keep track of which is which. That’s why the E Source tech team will present this rapid-fire roundup of energy-efficiency techniques and technologies. ...
Content type: Slides | Author: Peter Criscione
Putting the Gas Back in GasPACs
EMR 2013 Presentation
April 25, 2013
Energy-efficiency technologies change fast. Brilliant new solutions and ineffective “black boxes” are released constantly—it can be difficult to keep track of which is which. That’s why the E Source tech team will present this rapid-fire roundup of energy-efficiency techniques and technologies. ...
Content type: Slides | Author: Peter Criscione
Smart Thermostat Pilots and Programs
April 22, 2013
The latest round of smart thermostats has emerged onto the scene, with promises to provide energy savings for utilities and consumers and to enable smarter demand response. In just a few short years, more than 15 utilities are offering smart thermostat programs or are piloting programs.
Content type: Research Brief | Document ID: EDRP-RB-52 | Author: Rachel Reiss Buckley
Smart Thermostat Programs Are Smart for Utilities and for Customers
April 19, 2013
Smart thermostats that are Wi-Fi-enabled, include demand-response (DR) capabilities, and demonstrate energy savings can bring energy-efficiency and DR benefits to utilities and residential customers.
Content type: Research Brief | Document ID: EDRP-RB-53 | Author: Rachel Reiss Buckley
Warehouses
April 16, 2013
Warehouses, both refrigerated and nonrefrigerated present opportunities to save energy in a range of areas, including lighting, HVAC, and materials-handling equipment.
Content type: Sector Snapshot | Document ID: BAM-S-15 | Author: Ira Krepchin
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Sector Snapshot
December 9, 2010 | Updated: March 6, 2013
The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry covers medicinal and botanical products as well as in vitro diagnostic substances and other biological products. Numerous opportunities are available for saving energy and reducing demand.
Content type: Sector Snapshot | Document ID: BAM-S-10 | Author: Ira Krepchin
Top 20 Technologies and Trends of 2012
December 26, 2012
It’s been a remarkable year for efficiency technologies. The E Source Tech Team takes a look back at what we consider the biggest game-changers of 2012.
Content type: Focus Report | Document ID: TAS-F-4 | Author: Bryan Jungers, Ira Krepchin, Peter Criscione, Mary Horsey, Lee Hamilton, Essie Snell, Jay Stein, Spencer Sator
Results for RTU Retrofit Technologies Continue to Be Positive
December 20, 2012
The latest body of research supports previous indications that devices that convert constant-speed rooftop units (RTUs) to variable-speed operation and enable a mix of energy-saving control strategies can provide energy savings of as much as 50 percent for single-zone RTUs.
Content type: Research Brief | Document ID: TAS-RB-60 | Author: Peter Criscione
Packaged Cooling Technologies Selection Matrix
December 13, 2012
To ease the challenge of sorting through the myriad of packaged cooling equipment options, we’ve created a spreadsheet that provides a quick, high-level overview of data needed to evaluate equipment, such as efficiency and capacity levels, pricing, applicable sectors, and links to test reports.
Content type: Data Resource | Document ID: TAS-DR-2 | Author: Peter Criscione
Detecting and Diagnosing the Faults of FDD
October 17, 2012
Fault detection and diagnostics (FDD) could be a game-changer for commercial building efficiency because it can provide persistent and ongoing commissioning-like savings. However, FDD products must still prove they can perform as promised and do so cost-effectively.
Content type: Focus Report | Document ID: TAS-F-3 | Author: Lee Hamilton
Back to the Future: Smart Thermostats Are Here!
Forum 2012 Presentation
October 5, 2012
Back to the Future: Smart Thermostats Are Here! Programmable thermostats were designed to help us save energy, but those savings never fully materialized. Many utilities stopped incentivizing them and Energy Star discontinued its thermostat program. However, over the past few years a ...
Content type: Forum, Slides | Author: Lee Hamilton
Energy Smart Climate Controls
Forum 2012 Presentation
October 5, 2012
Back to the Future: Smart Thermostats Are Here! Programmable thermostats were designed to help us save energy, but those savings never fully materialized. Many utilities stopped incentivizing them and Energy Star discontinued its thermostat program. However, over the past few years a ...
Content type: Forum, Slides | Author: Abigail Daken
Power Partner Thermostat Program
Forum 2012 Presentation
October 5, 2012
Back to the Future: Smart Thermostats Are Here! Programmable thermostats were designed to help us save energy, but those savings never fully materialized. Many utilities stopped incentivizing them and Energy Star discontinued its thermostat program. However, over the past few years a ...
Content type: Forum, Slides | Author: Scott Jarman
EcoFactor: Intelligent Residential Energy Automation
Forum 2012 Presentation
October 3, 2012
DSM Startup Lab: Is This Technology Ready for Prime Time? Ever wonder how your peers decide which new technologies are ready to be incorporated into DSM program portfolios and which need more time to develop? In this interactive session entrepreneurs will present their latest energy-efficient ...
Content type: Forum, Slides | Author: Roy Johnson
Transformative Wave Technologies
Forum 2012 Presentation
October 3, 2012
DSM Startup Lab: Is This Technology Ready for Prime Time? Ever wonder how your peers decide which new technologies are ready to be incorporated into DSM program portfolios and which need more time to develop? In this interactive session entrepreneurs will present their latest energy-efficient ...
Content type: Forum, Slides | Author: Danny Miller
If the Fan Belt Breaks on the Rooftop, Does Anyone Hear It?
Forum 2012 Presentation
October 3, 2012
From Energy Analytics to Fault Detection and Diagnostics and Beyond Come explore recent developments that have the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of finding and maintaining energy-saving opportunities in commercial buildings. We’ll look at retrofit hardware products ...
Content type: Forum, Slides | Author: Peter Criscione
It's Time to Give Ground Source Heat Pumps a Second Look
September 25, 2012
Long relegated to a few niche applications, commercial ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) have struggled to gain market traction because they have long payback periods. But technological and programming innovations have made GSHPs significantly easier to install and finance in a variety of climates.
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Content type: Web Conference | Document ID: TAS-WC-9-12-GSHPs | Author: Mary Horsey, Spencer Sator
It's Time to Give Ground Source Heat Pumps a Second Look
Recording
September 25, 2012
This is the web conference recording.
Content type: Recording | Document ID: TAS-WC-9-12-GSHPs-R | Author: Mary Horsey, Spencer Sator
It's Time to Give Ground Source Heat Pumps a Second Look
Slides
September 25, 2012
These are the web conference slides.
Content type: Slides | Document ID: TAS-WC-9-12-GSHPs-SL | Author: Mary Horsey, Spencer Sator
Notes from the 2012 ACEEE Summer Study
September 11, 2012
The 2012 American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings was held in August 2012. Mary Horsey, research manager for the E Source Technology Assessment Service, was there.
Content type: Research Brief | Document ID: TAS-RB-59 | Author: Mary Horsey
What Do MELs, VRFs, and PCMs Have in Common?
Impressions from the ACEEE Summer Study Conference
August 17, 2012
What do MELs, VRFs, and PCMs have in common? Not much and quite a lot—though mostly they’re all topics that energy-efficiency afficiandos spend lots of time thinking and talking about.
Content type: E Source Blog | Document ID: ES-Blog-8-17-12-ACEEE-Day3 | Author: Mary Horsey - Research Manager
Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Kitchens (Technology Topic)
August 16, 2012
BEA members can use this blurb in their customer-facing materials to draw small and midsize business customers to the Business Energy Advisor on the utility website.
Content type: ESCD News Content | Document ID: BEA-PA-65-NC-ESCD | Author: Essie Snell
Upgrading Commercial Kitchen Equipment (Technology Topic)
August 16, 2012
BEA members can use this blurb in their customer-facing materials to draw small and midsize business customers to the Business Energy Advisor on the utility website.
Content type: ESCD News Content | Document ID: BEA-PA-66-NC-ESCD | Author: Essie Snell
Savings from Variable Refrigerant Flow Systems
July 30, 2012
I've been studying heating and cooling technologies for many years, and variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems are one of the more interesting efficiency opportunities that I've seen in a while. Instead of circulating conditioned air, VRF systems circulate refrigerant to multiple fan-coil units in the ...
Content type: E Source Blog | Document ID: ES-Blog-7-30-12-VRF | Author: Peter Criscione - Research Manager
