News | Newswire | Feb 24, 2010

SARNIA, ON and NEW YORK — Bluewater Power Distribution Corporation, an Ontario-based provider of electrical distribution services serving the Sarnia, Ontario area and CPower, a leading energy management and demand response firm, announced the enrollment of Lambton College into the Ontario Power Authority's (OPA) Demand Response 3 (DR3) program. The ...

News | Newswire | Feb 8, 2010

Toronto, ON – BOMA Canada is kicking off a national review of the BOMA BESt environmental certification program today by inviting BOMA members and other interested parties to submit recommendations on how to improve BOMA BESt. To participate in the 2010 BOMA BESt Review, go to www.bomabest.com/recommendation/ to submit comments ...

News | Newswire | Feb 3, 2010

BURNABY, BC — Legend Power Systems Inc. announced this week that Dr. Jan Carr, former CEO of the Ontario Power Authority, is joining its Board as an independent director. "It is a pleasure to welcome Dr. Carr, a renowned industry expert, to Legend's Board. His ample, worldwide experience and vision of ...

News | Newswire | Jan 21, 2010

Mississauga, ON — Carlo Gavazzi (Canada) Inc. and Pulse Energy recently announced a strategic partnership to supply energy management solutions to the rapidly growing Canadian energy management market. Pulse Energy will use Carlo Gavazzi’s innovative energy meters and transducers to enable their software subscribers to make rapid real-time decisions on ...

News | Newswire | Jan 19, 2010

VANCOUVER, BC – The Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC-IRAP) announced the winners of their Regional Awards for New Technology this month, giving top prize for BC/Yukon to Vancouver’s Pulse Energy. Pulse energy management software monitors, analyzes and reports on energy consumption, enabling buildings ...

News | Newswire | Dec 23, 2009

Toronto — The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Canada reports the all-important first step to reaching the aggressive energy consumption target by 2015 is well underway with establishing the common methodology for normalization of energy data with industry partners Real Property Association of Canada (REALpac) and the Canadian ...

Features | Robert Colman | Mar 3, 2010

Chris Rickett, Senior Project Manager for Partners in Project Green, will be delivering a keynote address at ENEX this year. Partners in Project Green is a growing community of businesses working together to green their bottom line by creating an internationally-recognized 'eco-business zone' around Toronto Pearson. Through new forms of ...

Features | EM Staff | Feb 25, 2010

Do you have energy management practices that stand out from the crowd? Have you created efficiencies that are saving your company serious dollars? The new Energy Management Energy Excellence Award, sponsored by Fluke Canada, wants to celebrate your success. Enter today! This new award will be presented at ENEX on ...

Features | Anthony Capkun | Jan 27, 2010

The Earth Rangers Centre — which aims to incorporate and validate the latest in green technologies — recently celebrated the completion of its wastewater and energy monitoring projects, recognizing Schneider Electric for its $375,000-worth donation of TAC building automation hardware and software, power monitoring and energy management tools, and PowerLink/Clipsal ...

Features | Alan Bandes | Jan 27, 2010

It is amazing that while there is much discussion in various media about energy and carbon reduction, most plant personnel fail to realize that there are incredible opportunities for cutting energy waste and carbon gases right under their proverbial noses. These are opportunities that could dramatically improve their companies’ competitiveness. ...

Features | Robert Colman | Jan 26, 2010

Whether a building is labeled “green” or not doesn’t necessarily determine its efficiency level — some buildings are just better managed than others. The challenge in managing any property is to get individuals working within it to operate it properly. This is particularly difficult in restaurants where “efficiency” is all ...

Features | Robert Colman | Jan 13, 2010

In the fall of 2009, St. Marys Cement in Bowmanville was the first North American industrial organization to receive its Certification in Energy Excellence (CEE). St. Marys received a silver level certificate after completing an in-depth, 12 month, third-party energy assessment. The certification was the culmination of three years of ...

Columns | Peter Rowles | Jan 13, 2010

The topic of climate change has been hotly debated for the past 20 years. Until recently, scientists, politicians and business leaders, especially in North America, have not been able to agree on the existence of the problem let alone what measures should be taken to mitigate it. It is only ...

Columns | Peter Rowles | Oct 8, 2009

Here’s a big challenge for energy managers: how do you measure and verify something you can’t see? The task of convincing today’s skeptics that your actions have created energy use and cost savings can be a daunting one. Hopefully this article, prepared with the assistance of Rafael Corral, Certified Monitoring ...

Columns | Peter Rowles | May 7, 2009

You can’t manage what you don’t measure. This is the nuts and bolts of the continuous improvement energy management model. In energy management circles it is referred to as Monitoring & Targeting (M&T). Managing energy without an M&T program is like playing golf without a ...

Columns | Peter Rowles | Sep 19, 2008

The greatest untapped resource that an energy manager has at his disposal is the company’s own employees. Andrew Carnegie, the great industrialist and philanthropist once said: ”Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision… It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”   Increasing energy ...