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Water conservation is an important part of commercial building design.

The National Institute of Standards is working to optimizing intelligent building and control approaches, model complex operations to challenge control systems, develop data driven models using machine learning for intelligent controls.

The Camp Fire devastated Paradise, California, and the surrounding community, but it's not stopping one popular holiday tradition.

The owners of commercial buildings, industrial facilities, schools, hospitals, resorts, and government facilities are increasingly turning to thermal energy storage to help reduce the amount of power they consume during the most expensive peak hours of the day. Often, these building owners turn to chilled-water or ice-based storage as their preferred thermal energy storage method.

With heating, ventilation and air conditioning making up 40 percent of a building’s energy use, power consumption forecast to grow 13 percent by 2040, and 72 gigawatts of the country’s aging electrical generating capacity retired, or set to retire, the industry is looking for ways to raise resilience, leverage renewable energy, and lower operating costs.

Norton Healthcare invested $18 million in thermal storage and a cutting-edge hybrid energy plant at Norton Audubon Hospital.

BOMA Cornerstone Partner Showcase. See pages 56-57.

Cutting-edge hybrid energy plant leads the way at Norton Audubon Hospital.

Much of those emissions come from energy used to operate buildings - this can be reduced, but how? One key element is thermal energy storage technologies.

Axiom Exergy uses thermal storage to shave grocery stores' electricity bills and keep food safe during blackouts.

CALMAC, a portfolio of Trane, showcased ice storage tanks during their AHR booth. These are integrated with Trane (HVAC) systems to take pressure off of the energy grid.

Take a closer look at the leading sustainable HVACR products.

This study will help utility companies and building operators optimize resource planning and energy use by capturing the full value of thermal energy storage...

Research shows thermal energy storage can provide significantly greater benefits to utilities and electricity grid operators than previously thought.

Amory Lovins knows the conventional wisdom on energy efficiency. And he doesn’t buy it.

Use it or lose it. Few products in the world have a shorter shelf life than electricity. That's why pretty much everyone involved in the power sector — from utilities to buyers to startups to state regulators — is putting more energy than ever behind ways to extend it.

How a California courthouse saved energy and money with CALMAC’s IceBank energy storage system

In a zero net energy (ZNE) building or for grids increasing in solar or wind, cool thermal energy storage can provide additional energy agility to help optimize the energy generation mix.

The Kings County Courthouse in Hanford, California, has achieved LEED Silver Certification and realized more than $100,000 in annual energy savings thanks to a thermal energy storage system.

One unexpected way to help achieve carbon reduction goals is with ice.

Attendees of AHR Expo can  learn how Kings County Courthouse was transformed into a more sustainable civic landmark with new Ice Bank energy storage system.

For buildings that experience high energy consumption, Ice Thermal Energy Storage is a complimentary chiller add-on that is proven to reduce operating costs by creating and storing cooling the night before.

Replacing or supplementing a building’s heating and cooling energy requirements with renewable-powered alternatives is attractive, particularly in areas with vast renewable resources. However, regardless of the selected renewable generating method, the resources are usually intermittent. In the case of heating and cooling applications, thermal storage is an attractive and readily available technology to overcome this intermittency.

It's been an interesting year for mergers and acquisitions in the distributed energy space, with some unexpected developments.

Several positive signs out there that we are hearing from across our industry

As we forge ahead into 2018 and market indicators continue to look positive for the year ahead, let's take a look back on the merger & acquisition-related deals that occurred during the fourth quarter of 2017.

Due to weather events, such as hurricanes or thunderstorms, a growing number of businesses are turning to Resiliency Planning for more reliable power.

Energy storage is going to be huge.

The ice storage system at the Pueblo facility allows for the most efficient use of chillers to occur, by running at night during low energy cost hours, and generating ice for daytime use during peak energy hours.

All aboard! Aiming to take pressure off the U.S. energy grid, NC-based HVAC giant Trane has begun integrating CALMAC ice storage tanks