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Sun, Fun, ASHRAE and AHR Expo: Registration Open For 2016 Wi
Sep 8, 2015 ATLANTA - New technical program tracks, more than 200 Professional Development Hour opportunities and the world’s largest HVAC&R marketplace are just a few highlights of the ASHRAE 2016 Winter Conference and AHR Expo taking place in Orlando, Fla. The two events are expected to draw thousands of industry professionals from around the world. The ASHRAE Conference takes place J...
ZBB Energy Changes Name to EnSync
8 September 2015 MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. - ZBB Energy announced that it has changed its name to EnSync Inc. (dba EnSync Energy Systems). The company is a developer of energy management systems for the commercial, industrial, utility, and multi-tenant building markets. EnSync said it has rapidly evolved from a battery company to an application solutions company, leading to its departure from b...
ASHRAE Announces Fall Online Courses
8 September 2015 ATLANTA - Ten online professional development seminars focused on commissioning, environmental quality, energy efficiency, HVAC applications, and standards and guidelines are being offered this fall by the ASHRAE Learning Institute (ALI). Participants can access these instructor-led courses from anywhere with an Internet connection, and earn continuing education units/profe...
Opower and Nest Score Highest in Assessment of Home Energy M
8 September 2015 BOULDER, Colo. - An examination of the strategy and execution of 16 leading home energy management (HEM) vendors, including vendor profiles and rankings, is provided in a new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research. While the HEM market has struggled to gain traction in the past, particularly from a utility standpoint, it began gathering momentum in 2014 and continues to ...
Tozour Energy Systems Earns Fourth Consecutive ‘Best Places
7 Sep 2015 KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. - Tozour Energy Systems, a provider of HVAC and building automation systems, has again been named one of the “Best Places to Work” in the 12th annual ranking presented by the Philadelphia Business Journal. Only the top 50 employers of Greater Philadelphia, as selected based on surveys taken by employees of companies spanning the region, receive the distinctio...
DOE Initiatives to Advance Clean Energy Technologies
7 Sep 2015 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its Loan Programs Office (LPO) will make up to $1 billion in loan guarantees available to support commercial-scale distributed energy projects, such as rooftop solar with energy storage and smart grid technology. In addition, through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), DOE is awarding $24 million in fundi...
Building Efficiency Software Can Now Be ‘Autotuned’
Sept. 4, 2015 OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - A set of automated calibration techniques for tuning residential and commercial building energy efficiency software models to match measured data is now available as open source code. The Autotune code, developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is available on GitHub. ORNL principal investigator Joshua New, in colla...
BACnet International Plans Online Information and Education
Sept. 4, 2015 ATLANTA - BACnet International has announced development of The BACnet Institute, an online center for educational resources. Its objective is to provide an easy path to BACnet information and learning for everyone involved with BACnet systems. Designed around BACnet community needs revealed in an extensive 2014 member survey, The BACnet Institute will curate existing information and...
Model Supermarket to be Part of New Innovation Center Built
Sept. 4, 2015 DAYTON, Ohio - A model supermarket, complete with refrigerated display cases, dry goods shelves, and point-of-sale terminals is under construction by Emerson Climate Technologies as one of five research areas within The Helix innovation center on the University of Dayton campus. The 2,500-square-foot supermarket module will support research on supermarket and convenience store refrig...
Ingersoll Rand to Reveal Vintage Replica of 1960's Tool Micr
DAVIDSON, N.C., Sept. 4, 2015 -Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR), the Official Power Tools of NASCARR, will reveal at Darlington Raceway this weekend its vintage tool microbus, a replica of the vehicle from wh...
