Leveraging Energy Management System Data for the Greatest ROI
Across nearly every industry-type, regardless of their location, size, product offerings, or customer base, businesses are feeling the pressure to do more with less. In our world–companies with commercial or industrial refrigeration systems like walk-in coolers and freezers, and refrigerated warehouses–it’s a top-of-mind consideration. Whether it’s a kitchen in a chain of restaurants, or a […]
Is HVAC/Refrigeration Automation the Next Big Thing for IoT?
As we throttle toward the end of this decade and into the future, the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to become more and more ubiquitous in our daily lives. On smaller scales, we see it in our homes with products that now merge thermostats with home security, or allow us to order items from Amazon […]
Equipment Optimization: A Driving Force in High-Performance Buildings
The concept of energy efficiency at the commercial level is nearly a ubiquitous one in today’s landscape. Cutting costs is a high-priority goal for just about any entity, and we’ve finally reached a point where technology has made a building’s energy consumption a viable target to go after. There are also the goals set forth […]
Energy Efficiency Can Get Us Halfway to Our Energy Goals, says the ACEEE
While large, obviously impactful changes in energy consumption will determine whether the international community reaches its lofty climate change goals or not, it is a situation in which the classic saying “a little bit goes a long way” still applies. In this case, we’re talking about how energy efficiency can support the broader, harder-to-reach goals. […]
Customer Service and Food Safety are Most Important Factors for Cold Chain Customers, Survey Finds
If one were to quickly guess which factor in the cold chain process was the most important when it came to large-scale refrigerated storage and transportation, no one could fault you if you said cost. When considering millions upon millions of units that need stored, shipped, and delivered in a fluid, constantly changing world economy, […]
More States Turn to Energy Efficiency to Address Emissions Goals
As of this writing, a large swathe of US states are forging ahead with clean energy goals regardless of the current administration’s aim to roll back as many Obama-era standards as they can. Arizona, California, Colorado, Illionois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin have all passed legislation, or are currently […]