Sentences with phrase «reducing utility consumption»

Office Properties: Reducing utility consumption in tenant space.

Established and trained all employees on an energy conservation program, monitoring its performance and making recommendations on systems and procedures that reduced utility consumption by 22 %

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«This funding and the demonstration project ensure that Ontario will continue to lead in the development of smart grid technology,» said Bob Leigh, President, Prolucid Technologies Inc. «Utilities globally face significant challenges to change the model of power consumption, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the efficiency of the grid.

In all our equipment and solution development, Tetra Pak focuses on minimizing utilities consumption and reducing the product losses generated by the process.

Through investment in the right water treatment technologies, food processors can significantly reduce water consumption which can impact hugely on their utility -LSB-...]

«You can have an awful lot more teachers, police officers and firefighters for $ 32 million a year,» Bloomberg said at a press conference at the Flatiron headquarters of Efficiency 2.0, a three - year - old firm dedicated to helping utility companies work with their customers to reduce energy consumption.

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

Duke Energy Corp. today tapped Cisco Systems Inc. to test «smart grid» software and hardware that the utility hopes will enable its customers to track and reduce their electricity consumption more efficiently.

In 2008, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District tried to reduce household energy consumption by issuing bills that compared customer's energy use to their neighbors.

By just getting your staff to help, you could reduce energy consumption by 33 % and by taking control, a further 20 % reduction in utilities costs.

However, the smaller size of the truck imparts it with more pleasant driving dynamics than many of the plus - sized sport - utilities available from Ford and General Motors, and the reduced weight means that differences in fuel consumption for each of the available engines is negligible.

OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.

However, there are IoT devices that are designed to help us get a better handle on our home utilities, and some can even go beyond helping us understand and manage our consumption, thanks to an innovative platform called OhmConnect, which can effectively put money back in our pocket while working to reduce the strain on the grid.

Commercial refrigerators and freezers that have earned the ENERGY STAR are on average 20 percent more energy efficient than standard models because they are designed with components such as ECM evaporator and condenser fan motors, hot gas anti-sweat heaters, or high - efficiency compressors, which will significantly reduce energy consumption and utility bills.

In addition, the RES includes an «energy transformation» requirement, known as Tier III, that tasks electric utilities to look for ways to reduce fossil fuel emissions (even where doing so may increase electric consumption).

Virginia investor - owned utilities are not even close to reaching Virginia's voluntary energy efficiency goal of reducing electricity use by 10 % by 2022 (relative to 2006 base consumption — equal to a reduction of 10.76 million megawatt hours).

Opower combines a cloud - based platform, big data, and behavioral science to help utilities around the world reduce energy consumption and improve their relationship with their customers.

They are funded in part by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to help reduce energy consumption in the city.

ENERGY STAR laboratory grade equipment can reduce energy consumption and lower utility bills through the use of technologies such as more efficient cooling compressors, advanced microprocessor temperature control and defrost sensors, more efficient high - capacity air circulation systems, and innovative refrigerants.

The primary solution has been «Demand Response» loads where utilities send signals to consumers to curtail consumption in exchange for reduced rates.

In 2013, utilities reduced their withdrawals by 830 billion gallons and cut consumption by 27 billion gallons.

Similarly, most utilities have no interest in reducing the energy consumption of their customers, since utilities usually make profits off the consumption of energy, not the savings of energy.

From smart meters to embedded sensors to routers, Echelon makes more than 90 products that reduce energy consumption and link complex network tasks for buildings and transportation and utility systems the world over.

It's always a good time to reduce your energy consumption and save on utility bills!

A green mortgage should help to save resources, reduce energy consumption and debt — offsetting costs of upfront energy efficiency building and utility infrastructure cost; while greatly reducing the investment and climate risk for both the mortgagee and the investor or mortgagor.

The rationale: Owners of homes that reduce energy consumption pay lower utility bills than owners of energy guzzlers, so why not factor these out - of - pocket savings into calculations of household debt - to - income ratios and appraised valuations?