Articles for December 8, 2008
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DISTRIBUTED ENERGY
"Fuel
Cells and PV Power California Brewery," by Cheri Chastain, Sustainability
Co-Coordinator, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, reports on the successful effort
of a brewery in California to develop what is now 80% on-site power generation
and will, ultimately, grow to 100%. The author emphasizes that energy
efficiencies needed to be in place for the fuel cell and photovoltaic (PV) efforts
to work. Both the efficiencies and the subsequent fuel cell and PV power-generation
are well-described. See this case study in Cogeneration & On-Site Power
Production, September-October 2008, at http://www.cospp.com/display_article/341383/122/CRTIS/none/none/1/Fuel-cells-and-PV-power-California-brewery/
ENERGY STORAGE
"Emerging Electricity
Storage Technologies" is an article by John Slowe, Director, Delta Energy &
Management (Glasgow). The author explains that electricity is already
successfully stored via pumped hydro and batteries (lead acid batteries, for
example). However, he emphasizes that emerging storage technologies are where
the future of large-scale electricity storage lies. He describes these
technologies, which include newer types of batteries, flywheels, and advanced
compressed air. See this article in Cogeneration & On-Site Power
Production, September-October 2008, at http://www.cospp.com/display_article/341386/122/CRTIS/none/none/1/Emerging-electricity-storage-technologies/.
LIGHTING
"Green Intelligent Buildings" is a
special section devoted to lighting controls in the November 2008 issue of Engineered Systems (ES). The section includes the following four articles:
1.
"Retrofitting Yesterday's Building with Today's
Lighting Controls," by Bob Eckery,
Enocean, includes some tips on working around the limitations of older
buildings to maximize energy savings from lighting controls. View this article
at http://www.greenintelligentbuildings.com/CDA/Articles/Feature_Article/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000456334.
2.
"Lighting Controls for
Daylight Spaces Provide Tremendous Benefits," by Daniel Trevino,
Daylighting Product Manager, WattStopper, shows how effective photosensors are
in saving energy. This article is at http://www.greenintelligentbuildings.com/CDA/Articles/Feature_Article/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000456312.
3.
"Accountegration - Proven Integration
at a Lower Cost," by Ron Poskevich, General Manager, Lumisys, explains why
building automation systems (BAS) often do not include lighting controls. When
lighting controls are added, after the fact, to a BAS, the effect is higher
cost and less energy savings. Accountegration, he suggests, can help. Read
this article at http://www.greenintelligentbuildings.com/CDA/Articles/Feature_Article/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000456295.
4.
"Lighting Intelligence in
Small, Medium, or Large," by Pierre Chaput, President, Cristal Controls, shows
some of the adaptations necessary to realize maximize energy efficiencies with
lighting controls for buildings of three different sizes. See this article at http://www.greenintelligentbuildings.com/CDA/Articles/Feature_Article/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000456264.
POLICY
"CPUC Sets Utility
Budgets for Low Income Energy Programs" is a November 6, 2008, press
release from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). While the
programs amount to an impressive $3.6 billion for three major utilities, the
real story is in the list of new approaches the CPUC aims to take with them. See
the press release at http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/NEWS_RELEASE/93446.htm.
"How
Major Countries Encourage CHP and District Energy: Comparing Germany, Japan and the United States" was written by Tom Kerr, Senior Energy Analyst, International
Energy Agency (Paris). He describes the International Energy Agency (IEA)
project by which countries will be judged as to how strongly they support the
development of combined heat and power and of district heating and cooling.
The IEA is using a score-card approach; the author reports on the first three
score-cards, one each for Germany, Japan, and the US. See this study in Cogeneration
& On-Site Power Production, September-October 2008, at http://www.cospp.com/display_article/341380/122/CRTIS/none/none/1/How-major-countries-encourage-CHP-and-district-energy:-Comparing-Germany,-Japan-and-the-United-States/.
"Obama
Embraces 'Green Path' in Economic Stimulus Plan," by Lorraine Woellert,
Reporter, Bloomberg News, discusses what are the likely Obama-plans for
connecting both infrastructure re-building and economic stimulation to a
green-emphasis that includes efficiencies on a large scale, grid connections to
where renewables are likely to be developed, and training a workforce for
green-collar jobs. Criticisms of these tacks are included. See the article in
Bloomberg News, December 2, 2008, at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aGZs6vevDXyg&refer=home.
"States
Explore Policy Options in Promoting Clean and Efficient Energy" is an
article, by staff, describing the policies of three states: California, New Jersey, and Oregon. The article appeared in the November 12, 2008, issue of SSTI
Weekly Digest; select the November 12, 2008 issue at http://www.ssti.org/Digest/2008/headlines08.htm
, and, then, select the first article listed. The article includes links to
Oregon's Governor Kulongoski's climate change agenda at: http://governor.oregon.gov/Gov/pdf/climate_change_agenda_1008_final.pdf, to New Jersey's Governor Jon Corzine's economic recovery plan available at http://www.state.nj.us/governor/home/plan.html
, and to California's Next 10 report "Energy Efficiency, Innovation, and
Job Creation in California" at http://www.next10.org/research_eeijc.html.
SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
"Oregon Convention Center's Eco-Friendly Policy
Boosts Business," by Abby Haight, the Oregonian, reports that the
Center is to receive a Silver Recertification for Existing Buildings from the
U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) program. The Center's aggressive recycling program and the LEED
recertification are cited as the reasons for its financial success during a
recession that is battering other businesses. See this article in the Oregonian,
December 4, 2008, at http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2008/12/oregon_convention_centers_ecof.html.
WASTE-TO-ENERGY
"New Waste-To-Energy
Plant Feeds Heat to Western Paris: DE Has the Power to Change Our Lives" is
an article by Ray Burelle, AE&E Von Roll, Inc. In it, the author describes
a new waste-to-energy plant in Paris which annually treats 460,000 tons of
residential waste to provide power and district heat to 79,000 households. See
this case study in Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production,
September-October 2008, at http://www.cospp.com/display_article/341387/122/CRTIS/none/none/1/New-waste-to-energy-plant-feeds-heat-to-western-Paris:-DE-has-the-power-to-change-our-lives/.
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