Commercial property owners should be able to fund renewable energy and demand response improvements, in addition to energy efficiency upgrades, with OBR.
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It has sold hundreds of the new detector units to the military, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and emergency response teams.
Individually, many companies are investing in energy efficiency, notably "demand response" technologies that allow consumers to cut back on their energy use when power is most expensive.
EnerNOC provides demand response services, energy efficiency and energy procurement services to end-users in the commercial, institutional and industrial sectors.
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Big power marketer Constellation New Energy has a demand-response program under way.
The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that demand-response networks could safely handle 20 gigawatts of power, roughly 2% of the country's 900 gigs of generation capacity.
Smart metering is part of an increasingly popular trend in energy efficiency called "demand response" in which customers voluntarily cut back on their power consumption during times of highest electricity demand, like the hottest days of summer, when air conditioners are running at full blast.
Finally, some respondents stated that they were buying more commodity-related investments (gold, energy, etc.) in response.
Duke Energy has had a difficult time dealing with investor response to its after-hours CEO change following the completion of its merger with Progress Energy.
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In addition to those demand response dispatches, Constellation Energy was providing real-time market price information to many of its customers, thus giving them information on the value of curtailing energy use during the heat wave when power prices jumped.
The most enthusiastic response has come from EDF Energy, which runs eight nuclear power plants in the UK and wants to build two new ones in Somerset.
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Other related technologies like demand response, consumer-side controls and energy storage are expected to play an equally important role in distributed-energy networks.
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We recalled the 2005 Kuala Lumpur Declaration, the 2010 Ha Noi Declaration, and 2011 Declaration of the East Asia Summit on the Principles for Mutually Beneficial Relations, which reaffirms and elaborates the broad vision, principles, objectives and modalities of the EAS. We welcomed continued efforts in the six priority areas of cooperation under the EAS framework and recognized high-level U.S. engagement in those areas including energy, education, environment and disaster management and response.
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In response, consumers could be asked to curtail energy use or power could be brought in from neighboring regions.
Iran's decision came in response to a resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency to report Iran to the UN Security Council.
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The comments of the committee came as it published its response to Ofgem's review of the retail energy market, which was published in March.
New Jersey-based Comverge and Boston-based EnerNOC--which find ways to reduce electricity use when energy is in highest demand, also known as "demand response"--further established the industry with their initial public offerings earlier this year.
New Jersey-based Comverge (nasdaq: COMV - news - people ) and Boston-based EnerNOC (nasdaq: ENOC - news - people )--which find ways to reduce electricity use when energy is in highest demand, also known as "demand response"--further established the industry with their initial public offerings earlier this year.
These go much further than the corporate reform devised by the New York Stock Exchange and by Congress, in the form of the Sarbanes-Oxley bill, in response to the frauds at WorldCom and Enron, an energy trader.
If other regions pursued similar rule-changes, it would leave an estimated 12 million distributed generation units, with a total capacity of about 200 GW, installed by customers across the country sitting on the sidelines for purposes of demand response, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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The utter predictability of it all is becoming comical, so comical in fact that the American Petroleum Institute (API) responded to this budget proposal filled with stale, debunked and retreaded energy-related proposals by retreading the same statement it had issued in response to the proposed budget submitted by President Obama last year.
In the now ever-present debates over energy policies, pressure for tougher automotive fuel efficiency standards has elicited an intriguing response from the creative Rep. Dingell, D-Mich.
This point was echoed by Portuguese socialist MEP Marisa Matias, who has published the European Parliament's formal response to the green paper, on behalf of the Industry, Energy and Research Committee.
The industry can even take heart from the response to the crisis by Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey, a long-time nuclear energy foe.
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In response to this challenge, London and New York City have endorsed ambitious long-term energy planning policies.
In response the Obama administration may approve more projects like Cape Wind, the controversial offshore wind energy project in Massachusetts.
He said there was no mention of energy as a key opportunity in economic terms, something which Mrs Foster strongly disagreed with in her response to the debate.
While their response does not cite any specific funding, the EC is expected to begin handing out energy infrastructure cash soon as a part of a European Recovery effort.
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