Energy User News articles from March 1998

Energy User News archives from March 1998

BAS companies work to resist millennium bug. (building automation system)
March 1, 1998... According to a recent EUN survey of vendors, some building controls manufacturers are still working to resolve the Year 2000 Problem, but the majority are confident their products will not be affected by the millennium bug. The well-publicized...

New fixtures help revive old warehouse.
March 1, 1998... TORRANCE, Calif. - CUC Software, an entertainment and educational software development company here, instituted an energy efficient fixture and lighting controls retrofit at its new manufacturing and packaging facility that increased light levels...

Enrollment spike spurs energy services deal.
March 1, 1998... FLOSSMOOR, Ill. - A paid-from-savings performance contract executed at the Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School here guarantees savings of $7.8 million in energy and operational costs over the next 10 years from a complete building automation...

Heat recovery to repay cost in nine months.
March 1, 1998... CELEBRATION, Fla. - The natatorium at the new Celebration Health facility, still partially under construction here, will be 75 percent more efficient than a comparable facility in large part due to a heat recovery system added to the facility's...

Retrofits help county overcome maintenance staff shortages. (Butte County, California)
March 1, 1998... OROVILLE, Calif. - Facing equipment failures and maintenance staff reductions, the Butte County government here performed a countywide building automation system, lighting controls, and HVAC retrofit a year ago that is on track to achieve...

End users query professionals over energy issues.(Panel Discussion)
March 1, 1998... ATLANTA - This feature concludes EUN's three-part coverage of the Deregulation Critical Issues Forum, a panel discussion held here at the 1997 World Energy Engineering Congress last November. This month's Energy Dialogue answers the concerns of...

BACnet on duty: new BAS frontiers for end users. (building automation system)
March 1, 1998... BOULDER, Colo. - Nearly three years ago the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (Ashrae) approved the BACnet standard protocol for building automation systems, which was designed to broaden the communication...

A state-by-state update. (electricity retailing)(Retail Competition, part 2)
March 1, 1998... RADNOR, Pa. - This is the second part of a two-part, comprehensive report on the current state of electric industry restructuring and the U.S.'s transition to a competitive power market. Last month's coverage featured updates and legislative...

Real time pricing and its impact on the end user. (electricity)
March 1, 1998... RADNOR, Pa. - Real time pricing (RTP), or the practice of paying for electricity at a rate according to its cost at discrete time periods throughout the day, is being offered more and more by utilities around the country. Since the benefit of...

AHR '98 yields improved building system wares. (1998 Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigerating Exposition)
March 1, 1998... SAN FRANCISCO - More than 19,000 visitors from around the world scoured the aisles of the Moscone Center here for information on new, energy efficient building products at the 1998 International Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigerating (AHR)...

Building automation system communications: the impact of protocols.
March 1, 1998... Communications is one of the most important aspects of building automation systems (BAS). Without communications these systems cannot tell the building manager anything about what is happening with the building systems they monitor and control....