Demand Response is defined as changes in electric use by demand-side resources from their normal consumption patterns in response to changes in the price of electricity or to incentive payments. These are designed to induce consumers to change electricity use in response to high wholesale market prices or when system reliability is jeopardized.
The Light Pollution Reduction credit has been rewritten to make it easier to understand while maintaining both flexibility for lighting designers and applicability to different kinds of light pollution. The exterior requirements are split into two areas: uplight and light trespass. For both requirements, an optional path allows teams to demonstrate compliance by selecting luminaires with an appropriate BUG rating and placing them appropriately. These optional paths do not require point-by-point calculations.
Now Foamglas is back.
Last week we examined the amount of energy it takes to transport and treat water--and how we can conserve energy by using less water.
We'd been expecting something like this for a while—it's great to see that it's on the way.
LEED Interpretations will look a lot like the process for Credit Interpretation Rulings (CIRs) that was in place prior to July 2009, according to information given to me by Cara Mae Cirignano, a LEED specialist at USGBC. (As you probably know, LEED project teams use the CIR process to check on whether they can earn a LEED credit in specific circumstances that may not be anticipated by the LEED rating system.)
GraniteCrete is a portland-cement-based aggregate binder used with locally sourced, ground, decomposed granite or other suitable aggregate to produce porous, natural-looking walkways and other low-traffic pavement.
It takes a lot of energy to transport and treat water in this country, and it takes a lot of water to produce the energy we use. To put this a different way: when we save water we save energy, and when we save energy we save water.
There are some significant advantages to urinals when it comes to bathroom maintenance (I won't go into the messy details of splashing that happens when males stand and urinate into a toilet). With ultra-efficient urinals (often called one-pint urinals) and waterless urinals, there are also very significant water savings that are achieved.
Last week, I touched on some of the strategies coming out of the "hypermiling" movement to boost automobile fuel economy. Here are a few more: 1. Lighten the load. The more weight we haul around in our cars or trucks, the more energy we use. If you keep sandbags in the bed of your pick-up for winter traction, remove them in the summer.
