Roberto Michel

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Plant-focused software vendors correlating energy with production management

The last few days have seen more announcements from plant automation software vendors that point to growing interest in correlating energy with production management. While the idea of using software to match real-time energy trends with production trends isn’t exactly new (OSIsoft began talking about this nearly 10 years ago), it seems that vendors are accelerating the move toward... More

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With government help, even some big Green projects in U.S. plants move forward

As we slowly climb out of recession, it’s still the case that getting the green light for bigger ticket energy efficiency investments is tough to do. That’s why I was pleased to see a list of fairly ambitious projects under way, thanks in part to government funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). According to a recent Department of Energy press release... More

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Schneider Electric's "Energy" University tops 3,300 users

Launched in June of 2009, Schneider Electric’s Energy University –a Web-based learning program focused on energy management and efficiency–is growing in attendance, with more than 3,300 active users over the past five months. While I had heard of the e-learning initiative not too long after its announcement , it was only recently that I got the chance to check it out... More

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Tech giants push the green data center

In catching up on Green IT news the other day, I came across an announcement about a data center of the future project from T-systems and Intel. T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom, and Intel, have dubbed the project DataCenter 2020 . The partners aim to improve data center energy and cooling efficiency by measuring  variables  in this test setting. The data center has... More

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Green building features can make sense, even for smaller operations

One of the last places you’d expect to find a good-sized array of solar panels is on a modest industrial building in Little Suamico, Wisconsin, just a short drive north of Green Bay. Sure, global corporations with sustainability programs and shiny corporate campuses in places like Silicon Valley have installed plenty of solar panels, but you don’t expect to find solar on a small... More