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Sustainable Energy Management includes three key components: price optimization, usage optimization and generation optimization. An awareness of the energy balance and prediction of consumption and production require an energy management system and a savings program. Energy management constitutes optimization of all the components to order to achieve the goal of ensuring a continuous supply of energy resources and water in the short and long range, in the quantity, availability and quality required, at an optimal economic and environmental cost, while ensuring the strategic security of the infrastructure.
Related Topic Areas: energy efficiency for residential buildings, energy efficiency for commercial buildings, energy audits, Energy Upgrade California (EUC), Building Performance Institute (BPI), U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED, lighting, smartgrid, energy harvesting, energy storage.
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A Brief Introduction to Residential Energy Efficiency: From Small to Major, Looking at the ROI |
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Written by Scott E Petersen
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- Why look at home energy efficiency
- Energy Audits, Creating a baseline
- Indoor Lighting, it’s not just light bulbs
- Insulation & Sealing the Envelope
- Heating, Cooling, & Hot Water Appliances
Scott has over 15 years as a high-tech project and training manager. About 5 years ago, he left the high-tech world to pursue his interests in the clean tech sector. He has received training at PG&E’s Pacific Energy Center in Building Commissioning & Recommissioning, Energy Auditing, Heat Pumps, Lighting, Food Service Energy Efficiency, and Energy Efficient house flipping. He is a Certified Green Building Professional from Build It Green and has taken the Solar Sales training at Ohlone College, as well as helped installed rooftop and ground based Solar PV systems.
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An Overview and Status Update on California AB2514: Energy Storage Bill |
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Written by Gregory Chu
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California AB2514, co-sponsored by Nancy Skinner & Jerry Brown was signed into law by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 9/2010 and requires California electric utilities to procure energy storage systems with a minimum capacity by 2014. Learn how this transformative legislation has and will:
- Lower Electricity Costs & Reduce Air Pollution
- Enable Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid here in California
- Create Bay Area Jobs
 Gregory Chu writes about the clean tech arena for the EcoGreen Group. He is an energy storage enthusiast who firmly believes that grid scale energy storage will enable the widespread adoption of renewable energy and Smart Grid here in California. His wide ranging research interests include Six Sigma and Lean Methodologies, Value Chain Analysis and climate change. Gregory received a BS Chemical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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Grid-Scale Energy Storage: Beyond Batteries |
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Written by Gregory Chu
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On November 13, 2012, MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) sponsored “Grid Energy Storage: Beyond Batteries”, a panel event to discuss grid-scale energy storage. After treating the audience of about 300 investors, entrepreneurs, technologists and thought leaders to a short harmonica solo, Eric Wesoff from Greentech Media proceeded to outline the landscape around grid-scale energy storage and moderate the panel around future directions in grid-scale energy storage.
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The Home Energy Efficiency BIG Picture |
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Written by John Kemp
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- What is the state of home energy consumption?
- What is the problem?
- What are current solutions, trends, and regulatory initiatives?
- Where are the opportunities?
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Energy Harvesting ~ What is it? |
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Written by Elizabeth Guimarin
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 Energy harvesting converts ambient energy to electricity. Ambient energy might be from light, magnetic, vibration, radio frequency, or thermo electric. Energy harvesters provide very small amount of power for low-energy electronics. The range of energy generated is 10nW – 100W. The energy source for energy harvesters is present as ambient background and is free.
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Opportunities in Energy Efficiency - Existing Small Commercial Buildings |
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Written by Bill Walton
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 Liz Valdez presents an overview of Energy Efficiency in small commercial buildings. She provides a high-level overview of employment opportunities in energy efficiency.
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