In May 2008, Aaron left my corporate software job in search of my next challenge. He had spent 10 years developing software in various product roles mostly at Microsoft.
Soon he learned about energy efficiency and the software challenges in the domain.
After co-founding an energy efficiency software company, EnergySavvy, in 2008, Aaron has been surrounded by interesting software challenges for the last two years. This space has barely had a Web 1.0 (let alone a Web 2.0) and is entering a great modernization phase.
His hope is that this will inspire at least one other software person to think about applying their software skills to energy efficiency. So here’s a round up of interesting software challenges. He focuses in on three areas of high activity: energy monitoring and analytics, energy data, and building analysis.
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Smart Grid Solution Provider of Proven IPv6 Network Platform Recognized as Global Leader in Multiple Industry Rankings
Silver Spring Networks is a leading smart grid solution provider that enables utilities to achieve operational efficiencies, reduce carbon emissions and empower their consumers with new ways to monitor and manage their energy consumption. Silver Spring provides the hardware, software and services that allow utilities to deploy and run multiple advanced solutions, including Smart Metering, Demand Response, Distribution Automation and Distributed Generation, over a single, unified network. Silver Spring’s Smart Energy Platform is based on open, Internet Protocol (IP) standards, allowing continuous, two-way communication between the utility and devices on the grid. Silver Spring has numerous deployments with leading utilities in the US and abroad, including Baltimore Gas and Electric, Florida Power & Light, Jemena Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Inc., and United Energy Distribution, among others.
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San Francisco-based CSRware is one of 35 new companies the Cleantech Group spotted in the past week looking to raise money. Details in Pitch o’ the Week.
A California startup is working with enterprises to collect the necessary data embedded in their operations and supply chain that enables resource management of energy, water, waste and carbon emissions.
In October, the company, San Francisco-based CSRware, partnered with Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) to successfully integrate power use data with CSRware’s software platform, enabling energy analytics for Cisco’s EnergyWise products (see Cisco chases billion-dollar smart grid dreams).
CSRware said it has successfully centralized power usage data on all Cisco network-connected devices and currently powers Bloomberg’s sustainability index with its on-demand software.
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Green IT or Green Computing seems to be the keyword for the new paradigm shift by enterprise IT globally. This year saw many companies putting their best efforts to promote green and contribute to the overall green initiatives to address global warming concerns.
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Sentilla Energy Manager Integrates With SAP Carbon Impact and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to Provide Comprehensive Visibility and Capacity Planning for a Leaner, Greener Data Center
Sentilla® Corporation, leading provider of energy management solutions for data centers, recently released a new version of Sentilla Energy Manager™, which now provides open interfaces to integrate with the SAP® Carbon Impact solution and SAP BusinessObjects™ Explorer software. The integration provides comprehensive visibility into energy performance and forecasting, capacity planning, service optimization and carbon reduction for the data center. Sentilla Energy Manager monitors and manages energy consumption in the data center, then populates SAP BusinessObjects Explorer with energy usage information, enabling decision makers to quickly address critical areas within the data center that have the highest return on energy optimization strategies.
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GE has expanded its smart grid software portfolio with the acquisition of data migration and SCADA simulation specialists Opal Software. The acquisition allows GE’s Digital Energy business to deliver greater operational and network productivity to utility customers and increase the development speed and delivery of new solutions–securing GE as a smart grid technology leader. In addition, the Australia-based Opal Software team will improve GE’s ability to support growth in the Asia Pacific region by providing increased local workforce and technology.
Opal Software is a well-respected specialty software designer, supplying professional engineering services and SCADA and DMS software products to electricity, water and gas utilities. Opal Software’s data migration capabilities are able to switch quickly between multiple platforms, easily integrating GE software into non-GE systems to provide greater flexibility and more options for customers.
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Green software is popping up all over. Here are Greentech Media’s favorites.
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IBM Green computing software provides the intelligence and insight to not only green IT, but to extend beyond the walls of the datacenter to address the other 98%.
IBM Software for a Greener World is a comprehensive strategy and a broad set of capabilities to help businesses achieve green goals and benefits across their organization. Leveraging offerings from all of the IBM software brands, this strategy is designed to help clients adopt software solutions that optimize and reduce energy consumption and costs, minimize their impact on the environment, and address emerging stakeholder expectations.
IBM Software Group provides the underlying intelligence and green computing capabilities that help organizations…more from here
When Walmart made the announcement in 2009 that it would soon require suppliers to report statistics on resource consumption, many vendors were nervously sent back to the lab to figure out how to adhere to the largest retailer’s forthcoming Sustainability Index. Regardless of a company’s size, calculating the carbon footprint of your toothpaste, video game console or sofa bed is an intimidating challenge. Marketing fish sticks is much different from measuring CO2 emissions.
Yet one company’s nightmare is another firm’s dream. Entrepreneurial ventures such as Hara, which is based in Redwood City, CA, are marketing a new class of software called Enterprise Carbon Accounting (ECA). These tools are designed to help businesses manage, analyze and report on their carbon footprints. Despite the generally frigid financial markets in 2009, a study by Groom Energy found that over $46 million in venture capital was invested in ECA start-ups. Another industry report projects that the global carbon accounting and consulting market will reach $7 – $9 billion by 2012. The big dogs have taken notice. Software giants such as SAP and Microsoft have been making acquisitions to bolster their suite of carbon management products.
From counting carbon to managing smart grids to processing consumer waste, applications for Green IT abound. RecycleBank uses RFID technology to weigh recycled materials and reward customers for collecting garbage. According to the company, its incentive programs have increased recycling rates over 400 percent in some participating communities. Greenopolis, which is a subsidiary of Waste Management, offers yet another innovative example of Green IT in action. The newly launched social gaming platform, Oceanopolis, rewards online players for physical recycling by distributing points that can be redeemed for rewards. These are just some of the ways that Green IT can revolutionize everything from pollution control to recycling.
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Some interesting books I came across
WEB BASED ENTERPRISE ENERGY & BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS – Edited by Barney L. Capehart and Lynne C. Capehart
The capability and use of IT and web based energy information and control systems has expanded from single facilities to multiple facilities and organizations with buildings located throughout the world. This book will answer the question of how to take the mass of available data and extract from it simple and useful information which can determine what actions to take to improve efficiency and productivity of commercial, institutional and industrial facilities. The book will also provide insight into the areas of advanced applications of web based EIS and ECS systems, integration of IT/web based information and control systems with existing BAS systems, commissioning IT/web based systems, measurement and verification of energy saving projects, and monitoring and control of all operations of a facility to integrate the energy related operations of a facility to the business side of the facility-including financial, purchasing, sales, personnel, quality control, manufacturing and service delivery.
More from here – https://www.aeecenter.org/store/detail.cfm?id=957&category_id=6
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A list of companies providing software and IT solutions for the oil & gas industry – http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Energy/Oil_and_Gas/Information_Technology/
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Lots of interesting posts and references on Green IT – http://www.clubofrome.at/technology/energy.html
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Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE), an international energy information exchange agreement formed in 1987 under the International Energy Agency (IEA). ETDE’s mission is: “To provide governments, industry and the research community in the member countries with access to the widest range of information on energy research, science and technology and to increase dissemination of this information to developing countries.” – http://www.etde.org/
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