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 11/12/20 Active Efficiency seeks to optimizes energy use with the opportunities presented by digital technologies. We sat down with Bryan Friehauf of Hitachi ABB Power Grids, an Active Efficiency Collaborative Member, to discuss what Active Efficiency technologies and approaches could achieve in the... |
 10/21/20 Across the country, utilities are grappling with the challenges posed by an increasingly complex energy system. Along with their traditional arsenal of energy efficiency programs, it will be critical for utilities to optimize energy supply and demand through deep energy retrofits and enhanced... |
 09/30/20 One of the perplexing discoveries from the COVID-19 pandemic is that the energy consumption of office buildings failed to appreciably drop when people began working at home. The Empire State Building, for example, has basically been empty, but electricity use fell only 28%. At the University of... |
 09/11/20 The world is in a pickle when it comes to cooling: We need more cooling as temperatures rise – with some of the world’s most populous cities expected to see increases between 2°C and 8°C by 2050 – yet we risk contributing to global warming even more if we emit more greenhouse gases through air-... |
 09/10/20 Microgrids have received a lot of buzz in recent years, and with good reason: Microgrids are smack in the middle of trends including digitalization, decarbonization, and demand flexibility that are enabling a more resilient, flexible, and efficient energy system. As the Alliance’s Active... |
 09/08/20 The U.S. House of Representatives will likely vote this month on two pieces of legislation that could have major impacts on energy consumption. One – an energy innovation companion to the Senate’s American Energy Innovation Act – has obvious efficiency components. The other may fly under your “... |
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