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Ready, Set, Go: Campuses Nationwide Compete for Water & Energy Savings

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By Sonya Ulen
Director, Load Response, Constellation Energy

On Monday, more than 170 colleges and universities across the country will begin competing to see who can reduce the most energy and water in their residence halls by April 23.  This is part of Lucid’s Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN), which is sponsored by Constellation. 

Last year, winners DePauw University and Humboldt State University saved an average of 25.8% on electric usage and an average of 15.4% on water, respectively. This year, Constellation is excited to be part of the competition, which has a goal of saving 1…
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VirtuWatt 3.1: New Notification & Monitoring Capabilities

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Exciting news for our customers using VirtuWatt™! We’re proud to introduce VirtuWatt 3.1, the newest version of our online energy management application, which features a number of upgrades.

The latest features were implemented following feedback from our customers. The latest version of VirtuWatt now includes:


 VirtuWatt™ Notify

- Customers using VirtuWatt can set high and low price and load thresholds
- Customers will receive e-mail notification when those thresholds have been exceeded.

Key Benefit: This will be particularly useful to our customers in situations where…
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GreenGov 2011: The Future of Sustainability for Government Agencies

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It can be challenging for federal agencies to determine which energy management solutions will most effectively help them meet the performance goals set by the Congress in the 2007 Energy Bill and by President Obama in his Executive Order 13514 on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance.

Earlier this month, my colleague Jim Connaughton, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs & Public and Environmental Policy, and I were thrilled to discuss both tried and true, as well as dramatic new energy management, financing and contracting innovations with a distinguished gathering of more than a thousand leaders from…
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How Customers with a Blended Electricity Solution Can Create a Reliable Budget

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Since I last posted about the different approaches that some customers with a blended electricity solution may take to create a reliable budget, one of my colleagues came to me with an interesting story. From time to time, customers with blended electricity solutions would come to him with questions about why a certain bill was higher or lower than expected.

One customer, a large property management firm with more than 100 commercial condo buildings, no longer has that question since they began using our i2i platform. i2i, which includes a suite of services and reports, gave this…
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VirtuWatt 3.0’s Debut at GridWeek

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A screengrab of VirtuWatt 3.0, which was unveiled to the public earlier this month

During GridWeek 2011 earlier this month, we were proud to introduce VirtuWatt™ 3.0, the next generation of our online energy management application for commercial demand response customers.

For electricity customers who want to be more strategic about how and when they use electricity, access to real-time pricing combined with automation is just the beginning. The latest version of VirtuWatt, available as an iPhone® and iPad® app, takes energy management to…
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CA Solar Power Project Gets $1.2 Billion Loan

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Image Source: NASA's Earth Observatory, courtesy of National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) is undergoing something of a renaissance in the solar-rich areas of the world, especially Spain and the Southwestern U.S.  The Department of Energy secured a $1.2 billion loan for the Mojave Solar concentrated solar power (CSP) project.  The facility will supply 250MW and is sponsored by Abengoa Solar, a leading developer of solar power based in Spain.  The plant will be built in San Bernardino County, CA.

CSP focuses sunlight…
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