Energy User News articles from December 1997

Energy User News archives from December 1997

Pilot programs offer glimpse of energy future. (California's electricity competition)
December 1, 1997... RADNOR, PA. - All eyes will be on California when the state begins the era of full retail electricity competition on Jan. 1, 1998, but end users in states with pilot programs may already know something about what an open market will be like....

New cogen plant saves Princeton Univ. $3 million. (cogeneration plant in Princeton University)
December 1, 1997... PRINCETON, N.J. - A natural gas-fired cogeneration plant completed last October at Princeton University is now providing steam and electricity to the campus close to 100 percent of the time; a move that is expected to save the school between $3...

Multisite end users form energy ed. institute. (Institute for Multisite Energy Consumers)
December 1, 1997... LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. - Energy executives from some of the nation's largest retailers recently announced their intention to form a new organization located here known as the Institute for Multi-site Energy Consumers, or IMEC. IMEC will serve...

$500,000 incentive aids med. supplier's retrofit. (Becton Dickinson and Co)
December 1, 1997... FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. - A multifaceted lighting overhaul currently under way at the headquarters campus of Becton Dickinson and Co., a medical supplies manufacturer here, is expected to increase the facility's overall light levels by...

New motors help school district cut energy costs by 20%. (Hilton Central School District)
December 1, 1997... HILTON, N.Y. - The Hilton Central School District here is performing a multisite, guaranteed-savings retrofit that includes the installation of efficient motors and variable-frequency drives. The project is expected to yield a 20 percent...

Boeing expects 1.8 year payback from $4.5 mil controls retrofit. (Boeing manufacturing plant)
December 1, 1997... AUBURN, Wash. - Large, preliminary savings from a building automation system retrofit motivated officials at Boeing's manufacturing plant here to outfit their entire facility - a move that is expected to save the end user $2.5 million a year...

Building award winners meet the challenge of change. (recipients of Efficient Building Awards)
December 1, 1997... ATLANTA - Once again, EUN was pleased to honor the 14 award winners and 17 certificate of merit recipients of our Efficient Building Awards competition at our annual luncheon that took place here Nov. 20 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. The...

San Diego shools add controls that will help save $5.5 million. (San Diego Unified School District)
December 1, 1997... SAN DIEGO - As part of a multifaceted $43 million energy efficiency project, the San Diego Unified School District installed extensive energy management controls system upgrades, which earned the district the 1997 Efficient Building Award for...

New York hotel fully automates chiller plant, saves $190,000. (Four Seasons Hotel)
December 1, 1997... NEW YORK - The Four Seasons Hotel here earned the 1997 Efficient Building Award for Building Automation-Single Facility for a complete cooling plant automation plan that is part of a three-phase energy conservation project expected to yield...

Compressed air project saves Carrier Corp 3.7 Mwh per year. (Carrier Corp)
December 1, 1997... SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The 1997 Efficient Building Award for Building Management has been awarded to Carrier Corp. for a compressed air management project at its Thompson Road site here that reduced energy consumption by about 3.7 megawatt hours per...

Hospital's chilled water project takes healthcare efficiency award. (Summa Health System's Akron City Hospital)
December 1, 1997... AKRON, Ohio - The 1997 Efficient Building Award for a Healthcare Facility goes to Summa Health System's Akron City Hospital here for a multiphase chilled water project that is saving more than 3.6 million kilowatt hours per year. The $1.7...

Efficient hospital rehabilitation takes heating, cooling honors. (1997 Efficient Building Award for Heating and Cooling)
December 1, 1997... KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A major mechanical systems rehabilitation that will conserve 2 million kilowatt hours (kwh) per year at the 20 West Ninth Building here, has won the 1997 Efficient Building Award for Heating and Cooling. Built in 1888 for...

Ellis Island retrofit saves 2 million Kwh/Yr.; captures building award. (National Park Sefive's Ellis Island Museum)
December 1, 1997... ELLIS ISLAND, N.Y. - This year's Efficient Building Award for Lighting Controls goes to the National Park Service (NPS) for a paid-through-savings retrofit project at the National Park Service's Ellis Island Museum here that reduced the...

New government facilities use 50 percent less energy, take award. (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
December 1, 1997... GOLDEN, Colo. - The National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) here, winner of the 1997 Efficient Building Award for New Construction, built an innovative thermal test facility and central water plant that are both about 50 percent more...

Interruptible rate helps school district save $53,000 per year. (Falcon Ridge Middle School)
December 1, 1997... APPLE VALLEY, Wis. - For its use of emergency generating assets that have helped promote a 40 percent reduction in power costs, the Falcon Ridge Middle School here took the 1997 Efficient Building Award for On-Site Power. Wold Architects and...

Performance contract backs $7.8 million citywide retrofit project. (City of Long Beach)
December 1, 1997... LONG BEACH, Calif. - The City of Long Beach has earned the 1997 Efficient Building Award for Performance Contracting for teaming with energy services company Southland Industries, also here, to complete an extensive lighting, HVAC, and controls...

Chiller changeout, lighting retrofit captures EUN-EEI accolades. (CSN Management Crop)
December 1, 1997... ROCKVILLE, Md. - With the aid of $86,000 in incentives from its local electric utility, CSN Management Corp., Kensington, Md., completed an extensive electric chiller installation and lighting retrofit that reduced both natural gas and...

Study: ballast standards may not ensure lamp life.
December 1, 1997... Yunfen Ji is a research specialist at the Lighting Research Center's Technology Group, Troy, N.Y. He has published more than 15 technical papers on energy-efficient lighting products, luminaires, ballasts, HID dimming systems, and fluorescent...

Forum explores deregulation from different angles.(Panel Discussion)
December 1, 1997... ATLANTA - Seven industry professionals took part in a panel discussion, moderated by EUN Editor-in-Chief Mike Randazzo, entitled "Deregulation Critical Issues Forum" at the 1997 World Energy Engineering Congress here. The panel featured...

Renewable energy at work. (alternative energy sources)
December 1, 1997... The term "renewable energy" encompasses a host of technologies, all of which are based on energy sources that continually replenish themselves or are so abundant as to be virtually limitless. These sources, including sunlight, wind, wood and...

Concerning profit and loss: what you can do today can affect your stockholders tomorrow.
December 1, 1997... What YOU do today can affect your STOCKHOLDERS tomorrow. Deregulation is rapidly approaching, with it comes increasing competition among energy services suppliers. Absent their monopoly protection, electric utility executives must shift their...

EUN-AGA award honors college's gas cooling, controls project. (Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
December 1, 1997... CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A contribution of nearly $104,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy Resources (DOER) helped Lesley College here complete a gas chiller and temperature control system replacement that will reduce energy use by about 30...

Savvy HVAC controls, motors upgrade captures ventilation laurels.
December 1, 1997... EDMONTON, Alberta - At the Capitol Square Building here, a tenant-owner partnership that created a 44 percent reduction in annual HVAC-related electricity use and a 41 percent decline in natural gas consumption has earned the 1997 Efficient...