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Primer on Organizational Use of Energy Management and Information Systems
Energy Management and Information Systems, or EMIS, are a broad family of tools and services used to manage building energy use. EMIS include benchmarking and monthly utility tracking tools; energy information systems; equipment-specific fault detection and diagnostic systems; building automati Read More...
Utilities Increase Access to Energy Data to Help Commercial Customers Benchmark
As energy benchmarking becomes standard practice in the commercial building industry, owners and managers of buildings are seeking to simplify the process of obtaining utility data.In addition, as the U.S. EPA's Energy Star Portfolio Manager has become the tool of choice for most organizations to be Read More...
Hoboken microgrid supports renewable energy, efficiency, greenhouse gas reporting
The city of Hoboken, N.J., located directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan was knocked offline for about two weeks in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. As a result, city leadership embarked on an ambitious goal to develop a microgrid that could provide resiliency in the face of a gri Read More...
Energy efficiency in existing buildings must be addressed; here’s how
...City governments can facilitate this by implementing energy benchmarking and disclosure ordinances that help identify opportunity buildings; acting as a convener and potentially as a program administrator to enable the model to be deployed at scale; and passing legislation that enables innovative fi Read More...
