Energy monitoring and targeting – “money back, guaranteed” The Warehouse cut $2 million from energy bills by monitoring and targeting energy use. The Company The Warehouse has become a New Zealand shopping icon since the opening of its first store in Takapuna in 1982. The retail chain now has over 100 stores in New Zealand…
EnergyPro clients win EECA Energywise Awards accolades Congratulations to Waitakere City Council, Watercare Services and Te Papa Tongarewa, three of EnergyPro’s clients which won awards at the EECA Energywise Awards. Waitakere City Council (Energy Manager, Michele Dawson, pictured, at right with from L-R, Martin Lynch of Genesis Energy, EPSL’s Hitesh Patel, and Jeremy Allen of…
Energy management pays off. The University of Auckland now uses 41% less energy per student than it did in 1981, thanks to careful energy management. The university has achieved the reduction by continually monitoring its energy use, and using the results to identify and introduce targeted energy-efficiency measures. Those measures include large-scale projects, such as…
Contact Energy says electricity retail prices need to rise, after reporting flat underlying earnings for the six months to the end of December. Contact managing director David Baldwin said challenging conditions posed by high hydro inflows resulted in low wholesale prices during the latest half year. Extreme weather and transmission constraints which negatively affected…
Senztek chief executive Brian Knolles on smart energy management. The old cry of “turn off that light” used to be the staple of household energy saving activity. Today its modern version advises homeowners to turn off equipment on standby, or to insulate for better energy efficiencies. There are many messages concerning energy and how we…
Real-time power tracking could change consumer habits Thousands of area residents with electric meters that transmit usage data wirelessly soon will be able to examine their power habits online. CenterPoint Energy, along with other distribution utilities and IBM, is expected to launch an online portal, www.smartmetertexas.com, this month that will allow customers to monitor usage in…
The ability to switch on a light – something which many of us probably take for granted. Electricity is a huge part of our lives and even a brief cut can prove disastrous, as demonstrated by the Auckland cut on Monday. But how much do you really know about the state of the electricity sector…
“Really smart” electricity meters could save householders up to 15 per cent of their power bills, before they even buy any appliances with technology to communicate with the meters, Parliament’s Environment Commissioner Jan Wright said yesterday. This was because simply having a real-time display, perhaps in the kitchen – showing how much electricity was…