In this edition:

• Opening Plenary A Success!
• EE Global Participants – A Snapshot
• Governments in Action
• Kicking Off EE Global
• Attendee Survey: Do you think the current price of oil is the linchpin to spur government industry and/or consumers to be more energy efficient?

Download the full issue, in PDF format: EE News, Issue III (2 MB PDF)

Before the official start of EE Global, on the morning of Sunday, December 11th, for one day only, the doors to the Exposition Hall were opened for an afternoon of product giveaways, educational seminars, and even a little entertainment for all ages, sponsored by Wal-Mart, Lockheed Martin, National Grid, and NYSERDA.

Public day attracted approximately 500 people from the Greater Washington, DC area. Families, students and others walked the aisles of the sold out expo floor to see the latest energy-efficient products and technologies and get their “burning” questions answered by experts in the field.

Members of the public were encouraged to attend one of the five educational seminars given throughout the day on subjects ranging from reducing home energy bills presented by the U.S. DOE, strategies for buying a new home versus old home by the U.S. EPA, becoming a carbon conscious consumer by the Center for a New American Dream, and a discussion of hybrid vehicles and efficient driving led by the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium.

Al Ebron, Executive Director of National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC), also presented tips for efficient driving and information about hybrid vehicles in his presentation “Hybrid Vehicles and Efficient Driving“(50 KB PDF).

George Hawkins, director of the Washington, DC energy office and DC council member Mary Cheh even made guest appearances to share the District’s plan to reduce its carbon footprint.

The Maytag repairman, 94.7 the Globe DJ personality Cerphe and even the infamous and villainous Energy Hog made appearances and dozens of prizes including an Energy Star DVD player, a home energy audit from CMC Energy services, a Rinnai space heater and tankless water heater, a Honeywell programmable thermostat, a Whirlpool Cabrio washer & dryer pair, hundreds of compact florescent light bulbs, Ratatouille DVDs, and much more were raffled off during the five hour “world’s fair” on energy efficiency!

In today’s edition:

• Read All About It: New Initiatives, Products Unveiled at EE Global
• Open to the Public
• Attendee Survey: Why did you attend EE Global Public Day?

Download the full issue, in PDF format: EE News, Issue II (2 MB)

EE Global is underway and you can keep up with what is going on through the show’s daily newspaper, “Energy Efficiency Today.” In today’s edition:

• Welcome to EE Global
• Accelerating the Trend toward Low-Energy, High-Performance Buildings: New Initiatives by the Alliance to Save Energy
• The Greening of EE Global
• Tracking Down SF6 with FLIR’s GasFindIR-LW IR Camera

Download the full issue, in PDF format: EE News, Issue I (1 MB)

In the future, technology will play a large role in mitigating and managing energy costs. In “Reducing Demand for More Power: An Executive Perspective on Achieving Energy Efficiency through New and Improved End-Use Technologies,” Ernesto Heinzelmann discusses the progress made in the last two decades in the efficiency of household refrigeration. As a result of regulations and advancements in technology, refrigeration units today consume up to five times less energy, a trend Heinzelmann contends will continue.

“Reducing Demand for More Power: An Executive Perspective on Achieving Energy Efficiency through New and Improved End-Use Technologies” is a Power Generation Executive Dialogue Session taking place on Wednesday, November 14.

Drawing on the Efficiency Valuation Organization’s experiences, John Cowan addresses the challenges in setting an appropriate level of detail for a common protocol for measuring energy savings or evaluating project proposals in “Protocols and Structures: The Key to Sustainable Energy Efficiency”. He also will discuss the need for education and training on specific protocols.

“Protocols and Structures: The Key to Sustainable Energy Efficiency” is a Finance Executive Dialogue Session taking place on Wednesday, November 14.

What can utilities do to accelerate the implementation of plug-in vehicles? In “Ensuring Sustainable Mobility: 21st Century Clean Transportation Fuels & Technologies” Ed Kjaer talks about the utility sector’s role in the future of the electrical grid and what is driving automakers to develop and think strategically about new transportation technology.

“Ensuring Sustainable Mobility: 21st Century Clean Transportation Fuels & Technologies” is a Transportation Executive Dialogue Session taking place on Wednesday, November 14.

Did you know that buildings consume more energy and are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than automobiles? Pat Sweeney will describe how to retrofit older buildings to be more efficient and propose methods to incorporate green technologies into existing structures using self-funding projects in “Bringing Old Homes & Buildings into the 21st Century.”

“Bringing Old Homes & Buildings into the 21st Century” is a Buildings Executive Dialogue Session taking place on Wednesday, November 14.