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Hot off the Presses: New Grid-Interactive Buildings for Decarbonization Guide
To succeed in decarbonizing our energy systems, we will be relying much more on variable renewable resources like wind and solar energy—but we’ll need to do more than install more clean generation resources. We’ll also need to get better at how and when we use energy: that is, to use more electricity at times when it is clean, abundant, and affordable, and trim usage when electricity is expensive, constrained, and polluting.
2022 Is The Year Of The Electricity Grid
“Behind the meter” distributed energy resources (DERs) such as rooftop solar, electric vehicle car batteries, and appliances with “smart” controls, can be an asset to grid managers because they enable buildings to shed and shift demand at opportune times (peak demand). Such grid-interactive building measures could save the U.S. power system between $100 to 200 billion over the next 20 years, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
New GridOptimal LEED pilot credit encourages designers to help solve grid issues
In 2019, renewable energy provided more energy in the U.S. than coal. The last time this happened, in 1885, the Edison Electric Company had been running the first American central power plant for all of three years and was serving just over 500 customers. Across North America and beyond, coal plants are closing—a sign of the times and the end of an era.
2020 State of the Industry
The last decade of growth in construction is reaching a turning point. How much will it change? By Paul Deffenbaugh Editorial Director Posted February 03, 2020 For the last 10 years, the construction industry has seen a remarkable line of expansion, with every year seeming to top the previous year. Only the shortage of skilled labor has taken any of the steam off the growth. But going into the next decade, uncertainty is creeping into the market, and not just on the economics side.
New Tool Considers Deep-energy Retrofits in Existing Buildings
Posted By: Alexi Miller, P.E. September 8, 2015 The Portland Building is an iconic example of postmodern architecture occupying an entire city block in downtown Portland, Ore. Building owners considering an energy-efficiency upgrade now have a new tool to help them weigh their options and choose strategies that will optimize energy savings or target the biggest opportunities among a portfolio of buildings.
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