Energy User News articles from October 2004

Energy User News archives from October 2004

Barich named energy manager of the year: University of New Mexico is best project.
October 1, 2004... EUN presented its energy manager of the year award to Mark Barich in a presentation held on the show floor of the World Energy Engineering Congress on September 22, 2004. Kevin Heslin, editor of EUN, awarded a plaque to Barich, energy manager...

Verdiem helps Southern California schools find cash in PCs.(personal computers)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... San Diego, CA -- In one of the country's highest electricity cost regions, the Poway Unified and Oceanside school districts have adopted a software program from Verdiem Corporation that measures and manages the energy consumption of the...

EUN load profile.
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Plug Power Inc.(GenSys5C fuel cell system has been certified by the California Air Resources Board)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Plug Power Inc.'s GenSys5C fuel cell system has been certified by the California Air Resources Board as meeting the 2007 distributed generation emission standards requirement. In 2001, the Air Resources Board adopted regulations pursuant to...

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) announced plans to present its 20th Annual Technical Seminar free of charge on October 18, 2004. The seminar will be delivered in conjunction with the 31st Annual Western Protective Relay...

New York Independent System Operator.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The Board of Directors of the New York Independent System Operator [NYISO) approved Phase I of a comprehensive planning process developed by the NYISO and its stake holders. The comprehensive planning process for reliability needs establishes...

Platts' Global Power Report.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... The shakeout in the United States' power generating business over the past three years has prompted financial players to snap up power generating assets at an accelerated pace over the past several months, hitting a total value of nearly $13...

EUN calendar.(Current Happenings And Events)(Calendar)
October 1, 2004... OCTOBER 17-19 IFMA's World Workplace, Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT. International Facility Management Association. For more information visit: www.worldworkplace.org/northamerica/2004/. 17-20 7x24 Exchange, Hyatt...

Square D Services launches educational tour, live demos.(Current Happenings And Events)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... PALATINE, IL -- The Square D Services Plant Tour features a customized, 20-foot cargo truck that is a mobile display of products designed to help customers with critical power and production applications. The tour began its nationwide...

Solar Expo expects star power.(Current Happenings And Events)
October 1, 2004... Johnson & Johnson, Toyota Motor Co., and Alameda County in California are among the large commercial and public electricity users that are sharing their experiencing with solar electricity at Solar Power 2004. Speakers from these and other...

Gridwise: merging information technology and energy.(Management Information Systems)
October 1, 2004... EUN's looks at the energy industry's future, especially through tiffs column, include many variations on a theme. Gridwise is a further refinement of these postulations. The term will recur as EUN chronicles new developments in the...

Recognition overdue: EUN award recognizes energy managers everywhere.(Opinions And Commentary From The Editor)
October 1, 2004... Now that Mark Barich, SUMMA Health Systems has been named Energy, User News Energy Manager of the Year, what will he say? Almost certainly, he will credit others for their role in the energy management projects that helped him gain the...

It's VAR-Y important: understand VAR compensation in a power system.(volt amperes reactive)
October 1, 2004... Reactive power is one of the most misunderstood concepts in electricity. By definition, real power is the electrical energy that does real work such as providing light in bulbs and turning motor shafts to provide horsepower. Reactive power is...

Industrial fuel switching gains favor: combating rising fuel costs in industrial settings.
October 1, 2004... Industrial facilities using as little as 10 million British thermal units per hour can implement fuel switching, the strategy of temporarily changing to an alternative or backup fuel, to achieve cost savings or to continue operating when the...

Wireless technology meets the real world: sometimes there are obstacles.
October 1, 2004... The following dialog is imagined, or is it? Roger: If you have to move us to the new third floor next week, Dodger, can we at least get temperature controls in the new office right away? Dodger: You know it takes 34 weeks after we...

Power Converter from Ballard.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 101 Ballard Power Systems' 30-kW Ecostar power converter is specifically designed for photovoltaic (PV) applications. The 30-kW grid-tie utility interactive power converter combines superior inverter and transformer...

DALI interface module from WAGO.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 104 WAGO's 750-641 BALI interface module (digital addressable lighting interface) enables customers to efficiently monitor and control building lighting. The 750-641 DALI Interface Module uses WAG0's 288-893 15-Vdc...

Socket-based revenue meter from EIG.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 107 Socket and switchboard-based revenue meters from Electro Industries/Gaugetech are based on the Nexus platforms. This product adds over 200 new features to the product line. Designed specifically for critical...

CD-ROM catalog from Baldor.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 110 Baldor's new CB catalog, Version 9.0, represents a vast improvement over previous editions. More than 600,000 copies of previous versions are in circulation. Users are able to instantly access a wide variety of...

Temperature transmitter from Universal Flow Monitors.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 102 CalPoint from Universal Flow Monitors, Inc., is a vortex-shedding flowmeter and temperature transmitter for measuring and balancing chilled-water flows in HVACR applications. The CalPoint meter helps assure efficient...

Custom inspection lights from Paramount.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 105 Paramount Industries' custom inspection lights for product finishing lines help manufacturers meet lighting requirements for inspection booths. These requirements may vary with the types of defects at issue. Lighting...

HVAC Mini DataLoggers from E Instruments.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 108 E Instruments has released a series of HVAC Mini Data Loggers, including the MiniLog T (Temperature) & MiniLog T+RH (Temp + Relative Humidity), designed to meet the needs of various Instrumentation Engineers and...

Chiller diagnostics from efficiency technologies.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 111 Efficiency Technologies, Inc. (EffTec) has developed a powerful, easy-to-use, online diagnostic service called EffHVAC that gives facilities the ability to document, monitor, evaluate, and manage centrifugal chiller...

New BACnet control system from York.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 103 York's Integrated Systems Network (ISN) ConneXsys line of controls makes York the first HVAC manufacturer to offer a control system that provides complete, BACnet connectivity from the smallest terminal unit to the...

Mirrored-power UPS from MGE.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 106 A mirrored-power UPS from MGE makes it the first to offer a double-layer of power availability in a small 6U package. The new 5, 7 and 11-kVA systems provide up to two hours of battery backup time and up to eight...

Mark 5 electronic ballasts from advance.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 109 Advance Transformer enhanced its line of Mark 5 program-start electronic ballasts for the operation of one, two, end three 17-watt, 25-W, and 32-W T8 fluorescent lamps, Enhancements include the availability of...

Quicktronic T8 Ballasts from Osram Sylvania.(Metering, Lighting, And Power)
October 1, 2004... FREE INFO: Write 112 OSRAM SYLVANIA released the Quicktronic high-efficiency series of energy-saving electronic T8 instant start ballasts that use up to 6% (2 to 7-W) less energy than standard electronic ballasts without compromising...

Bank's backup power system ensures uninterrupted customer service.(Current Happenings And Events)
October 1, 2004... Wachovia Corporation (formerly First Union Corporation), one of the nation's largest banks, can't afford downtime at its customer information centers. Serving more than 15 million customers in 11 states along the East Coast, these centers are...

Plug Power adds new fuel cell.(Current Happenings And Events)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... LATHAM, NY -- Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG), a leader in the development of proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems, announced the availability of GenCore 5T24, a 24-V, 5-kW backup fuel cell system that will be marketed to wireless...

ABB provides drive to MSOE students.(Current Happenings And Events)(Milwaukee School of Engineering)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... MILWAUKEE, WI -- The August 20th delivery and set up of ten new motor drives from at Milwaukee School of Engineering's Industrial Control Laboratory "both helps complete the extensive retrofit of this facility for students and gives them...

EUN index gains despite slump.(Statistics, Trends & Energy Data)
October 1, 2004... Major markets fell this session, hammered by consumer confidence woes. Job creation worries caused the Consumer Confidence Index to drop to 98.2, far below the 103.5 reading economists had expected, from the 105.7 posted in July. The index...

Errata!(Statistics, Trends & Energy Data)(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2004... Due to an editing error, the rebate information presented in September EUN's Marketplace is not correct. Please disregard the entire table. The correct table can be downloaded at www.energyusernews.com/FILES/HTML/PDF/0904Marketplace.pdf or...

Degree days for selected cities.(Statistics, Trends & Energy Data)(August 2004)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... August DEGREE DAYS For Selected Cities Monthly Monthly Deviation Monthly Deviation from City Total from...

Gas price comparison.(Statistics, Trends & Energy Data)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... Gas Price Comparison Breakeven Rates ($/therm) 2003 Large Office (150,000 [ft.sup.2]) Avg. 1st Q-03 May-04 Boston Gas...

Weather hedging: Chicago mercantile exchange weather futures prices.(Statistics, Trends & Energy Data)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... Weather Hedging: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Weather Futures Prices Each Degree Day valued at $20 per contract Cooling Degree Days HDDs Location Aug Sept Oct Oct Atlanta, GA ...

Ranking of electricity prices industrial.(Statistics, Trends & Energy Data)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... Ranking of Electricity Prices Industrial * April 2004 Rank Cts/kWh ST UTILITY % Total kWh 1 55.66 CO San Luis Valley R E C, Inc 0.000 2 23.14 HI Kauai Island...

Utility curtailment incentives.(Statistics, Trends & Energy Data)(Directory)(Illustration)
October 1, 2004... Utility Curtailment Incentives State Utility Utility Website AL Southeast Alabama Gas District www.seagd.com/ AZ Southwest Gas ...

Ranking of gas utility prices by state commercial.(Statistics, Trends & Energy Data)
October 1, 2004... Ranking of Gas Utility Prices By State Commercial * May 2004 Rank State Price/Mcf 1 Hawaii 21.06 2 District of Columbia 13.28 3 Delaware 12.53 4 ...