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Month: February 2014

Wireless charging for electric vehicles hits the road

Posted on February 28, 2014

Forget building costly charging stations for residents; forget the charging cable: breakthroughs in inductive charging for electric vehicles (evs) means drivers just park over a pad in the road to get more juice With no need to plug in to charge, it’s a breakthrough that should speed up the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EV)…

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Is Multifamily Energy Management Finally Going Mainstream with Nest at the Center?

Posted on February 28, 2014

New advancements around thermostats, wireless, Bluetooth lighting, apartment automation appliances and more are energizing the energy management market. The big news is that Nest Labs announced a developer program for integration with other manufacturers’ products—through Nest’s cloud—and its first partner is Control4, so users of that energy management control systems can see the temperature on a…

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2014 Smartest Energy and Sustainability Decisions

Posted on February 24, 2014

Lighting leads the way! Lighting retrofits were the smartest investment made in 2013. When you consider the substantial capital support for LED lighting made available through utility incentive programs, it is no surprise that lighting tops the list―with savings beginning almost immediately! Other smart investments that topped the list included energy management systems, building controls…

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The Largest Solar Plant in World Opens

Posted on February 19, 2014

  The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a $2.2 billion solar complex, has come on-line in the sunny Mohave desert.  The project, owned by NRG Energy, Inc., Google Inc., and Brightsource Energy,  and constructed by Bechtel Corp. , uses solar-thermal technology, which means that 350,000 large mirrors concentrate sunlight on boiler towers to create electricity.  The cost to…

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Energy Benchmarking results are in for early adopter – Seattle

Posted on February 14, 2014

Seattle, Washington, has joined the growing list of U.S. cities that are publishing detailed reports on building energy use in an effort to motivate property owners to make their buildings more efficient, and to ultimately save energy and money. The Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment released a report in January 2014 that details energy…

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What’s Up Whistle Pig? (The Weather Stylings of Groundhogs and Action You Can Take)

Posted on February 6, 2014

I was super excited that Punxsutawney Phil and Staten Island Chuck (our nations more formidable marmot meteorologists) concurred that we would have six more weeks of winter.  This means that our residents will continue to be frustrated by their heating costs.  Even in Sunny California with our heat wave, residents have seen their bills go up and…

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