Participants in the DOE Challenge 'Build on' Energy Efficiency Achievements - TMCnet's Smart Grid eNews

5/28/2013

Featured Articles » Report: Texas' Coal Plants 'Cough Up' the Most CO2 in the Country » E.ON Selects TOA Technologies to Install Eight Million Smart Meters » Mitsubishi and Echelon 'Sense the Possibilities' in Smart Meters » ComEd Rates to 'Take a Hike': Assembly Overrides Veto of Smart Grid Law   Sponsored By: M2M Evolution Conference & Expo – August 26-29, 2013 Mandalay Bay – Las Vegas, NV M2M Evolution highlights how M2M technologies, the Internet of Things and the wireless network combine to significantly improve business processes, minimize risk, and drive revenue. Join us in Las Vegas for this two track program focused on providing you with information on how M2M solves business problems across multiple industries and in nearly all business functional areas. Conference sessions will focus on the retail and energy verticals as well as applications in big data, security and logistic functions (including transportation, fleet management and demand response). Members of the M2M ecosystem, including wireless carriers, application providers, platform companies, and device manufacturers will discuss their roles in creating effective technologies and procedures that work to create an ecosystem for actionable data, information and efficiencies.   Top Stories » To Date, Metering and Distribution Projects Have Won Majority of SGIG Awards » US Consumers Like Smart Home Devices, But Not Necessarily for Energy Control » Despite a Delay in Meter Deployments, ComEd Creates 2,700 Chicago Jobs during Q1 » Smart Meters Reign in Spain, Where Endesa's Deployments Lead Europe   From The Expert Corner May 23, 2013 Participants in the DOE Challenge 'Build on' Energy Efficiency Achievements By Cheryl Kaften, TMCnet Contributor This week, new U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz recognized the administration’s Better Buildings Challenge partners—including, to name just a few, Best Buy, Macy’s, Sprint, Staples ,Starbuck’s and Walgreens— for their first year of progress toward making America’s commercial and industrial buildings 20 percent more energy efficient by 2020. Data submitted by the Challenge partners demonstrates that they have improved facility energy efficiency by more than 2.5 percent per year on average compared to their baseline years—equal to about $58 million in annual energy savings. Read More    Featured Videos Alcatel-Lucent - Podcast: TMCnet's SmartGrid Product of the Year goes to Alcatel-Lucent    Featured Resources » When Machines Talk to Machines: M2M deployment can make your business systems smarter » IBM SmartCloud Social Collaboration for Government » Cloud & Carrier Routing: Turning Complexity Into Capability   Featured Channels » Smart Grid » Green Technology   Visit smart-grid.tmcnet.com for the Latest Smart-Grid News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Smart-Grid Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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