Newsletter February 2014
Hello everyone. Here’s what’s new.
CALMAC hosted it’s International Sales Meeting during the ASHRAE AHR Expo in New York City. The meeting kicked off in Times Square and concluded at CALMAC’s ice rink at Rockefeller Center. Meanwhile at the AHR Expo, show attendees went on ASHRAE Technical Tours of ice storage systems at New York University’s New School and Rockefeller Center. Private group tours of the CALMAC factory and New York’s largest office space, 55 Water Street, were also offered by Trane and CALMAC during the expo. Mark MacCracken, CALMAC CEO, presented the “The Ever-Growing Value Proposition of TES” and was part of a Panel Discussion “Why Aren’t You Using Thermal Energy Storage? Dispelling the Myths and discussing the Realities of TES Integration and Cost Savings” at the ASHRAE Winter Conference and CALMAC’s 8 foot tall IceBank energy storage tank really got the attention of attendees in the exhibit hall.
Major news highlights included announcements by Puerto Rico to issue an energy storage mandate and New York City to propose thermal energy storage incentives of $2,600/kW. A groundbreaking ceremony of an Ice Storage Cooling Project was held in Aruba (video). And CALMAC's Evan Berger, Director of Energy Solutions, has been chosen as Member Chair of the California Energy Storage Alliance’s Permanent Load Shifting Working Group.
In other news, SmartGridNews published a guest editorial by MacCracken on the proposed New York incentive program. Paul Valenta, CALMAC VP of Sales & Marketing posed the question “What are some missed opportunities with chillers?” with his contributed article in Construction Specifier. Valenta also contributed the article “Understanding Today’s Energy Pricing” which uncovers the mystery of demand billing. NOESIS Energy did a product review of IceBank®. Plus, Turkish construction magazine İnşaat Dünyasi, published an article about CALMAC’s IceBank.
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- Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) Issues Renewable Energy and Energy Storage RFP, Energy Storage Association
- Report: Solar Paired with Storage is a 'Real, Near and Present' Threat to Utilities, GreenTechGrid
- FERC Affirms Support for Removing Market Barriers to Energy Storage, Other Clean Energy Resources, NRDC
- Video: Minister President Mike Eman nainicio Ice Storage Cooling Project
- 3 States Driving Energy Storage for Utilities and Customers, GreenTech Media
- Smart Grid: New York joins California as leader in energy storage (and what it means for your state)
- Smart Grid, energy storage and smart cities, Fierce SmartGrid
- Smart Energy Storage Becomes the New Power Source, SmartGrid.Testing-blog
- 4 Factors Driving the Commercial Energy Storage Market: Greentech Media
- Going Green in 2014: A Conversation with Two Thought Leaders on Urban Green Design
- Large-Scale Energy Storage to Reduce Load in New York City: GreenTech Media
- Will New York be next to mandate energy storage?(And will your state be next?)
- Powering California with 50% Renewable Energy by 2030: New analysis Shows it can be Done, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Understanding Today's Energy Pricing, Daily Energy Report
- CALMAC Thermal energy storage, HPAC Engineering AHR Expo Event Coverage
- What are some missed opportunities with chillers?, Construction Specifier
- DOE throws its weight behind energy storage, Smart Grid News
- University Shaves Peak Costs Up to $38,000 Per Month by Time Shifting With CALMAC IceBank, Noesis Energy
- ASHRAE is in a NY State of Mind, The ACHR News
- Register for the AHR Expo 2014. Free tickets available.
- Demand Response Made a Path for Energy Storage Growth, The Motley Fool
- Puerto Rico Issues Energy Storage Mandate, PowerMag