Articles of Interest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 23, 2009

Electric Solution Announces Strategic Partnership with McQuay®

by Peter F Zomick, Vice President, Sales and Marketing

North America, USA

Electric Solution today announced a strategic partnership with McQuay
International. This partnership is designed to offer customers increased value and a more comprehensive approach to energy efficiency and rising energy costs. The combination of McQuay’s quality and efficient HVAC products and engineering expertise, along with Electric Solution’s Intelligent Energy Demand Control products and expertise, now allows customers to experience: lower capital costs, more competitive service agreements, improved performance contracting as well as a complete and comprehensive energy (kWh) and demand (kW) management control solution.read more...

Electricity Conservation – Can It Work?

For many people, the word conservation brings back memories of President Jimmy
Carter delivering a policy address in a sweater and asking Americans to “conserve more”, or Vice President Dick Cheney demeaning conservation as a “personal virtue”. Or perhaps it brings to mind the best (or worst) aspects of environmental protection. However, if the politically-charged associations with the word “conservation” are left aside, and we examine what is meant by “conservation” purely in a pragmatic fashion, we can better understand if it might be a solution to our troubling energy issues. In fact, since the first oil shocks in 1973, conservation has “worked” remarkably well with few government programs or incentives, and the United States uses energy nearly twice as efficiently in 2005 as in 1973. read more...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2009

Electric Solution Announces Partnership with ENERGY STAR®

Asheville, NC

Electric Solution today announced a fundamental commitment to protect the environment by becoming an ENERGY STAR Partner. Electric Solution’s voluntary partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR means that they will be working toward helping their clients improve the energy efficiency and performance of their facilities. Electric Solution believes that an organization-wide energy management approach will help their clients enhance their financial health and aid in preserving the environment for future generations.

“This is just one step in our ever growing commitment to help solve some of the fundamental problems our country faces when it comes to energy demand,” says Peter Zomick, Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

In partnership with ENERGY STAR, we will help our clients to:

• Measure and track the energy performance of their facilities at all locations.
• Set a goal to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings by 10% or more, in support of the ENERGY STAR Challenge. read more...

Supporting High Impact Green Energy Initiatives That Reduce Electric Utility Costs While Reducing Electricity Demand (kW) in an Increasing Price & Demand Environment…

By: Peter F. Zomick, Vice President, Sales and Marketing

April 20, 2009

Abstract
The growing demand for electricity is putting serious stress on our antiquated utility grid. Additionally, existing power plants across the country are insufficient to produce our increased appetite for electricity. As the costs of electricity continues to increase, manufacturing plants, industrial facilities, institutions, other businesses and homeowners face the challenge of balancing the budget to account for these higher prices.

Facilities that utilize high impact energy consumption may face significant financial consequences in the form higher rates and/or assessed penalties for their high consumption and/or dated efficiency plant measures, which may lead to reduced profits or higher costs of goods to their customers. How can these organizations reduce their demand (kW) for energy while supporting modernized high impact green energy initiatives and in turn, reduce their electricity costs? read more...

REPORT: 50-100 PERCENT JUMP IN N.C. ELECTRIC BILLS POSSIBLE IF DUKE, PROGRESS BUILD 4 UNNEEDED NUCLEAR PLANTS AND DUKE FINISHES CLIFFSIDE COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT

Study by Duke University Economist Highlights Energy Efficiency and Renewables as Path to Avoiding Costly New Plants and Shutting Down Many Existing Coal Plants.

DURHAM, N.C. March 31, 2009

North Carolina homeowners could see their utility bills climb between 50-100 percent if Duke Energy and Progress Energy are allowed to proceed with four nuclear plants and if Duke completes the new Cliffside coal plant. Any need for these plants could be replaced with modest increases in energy efficiency, cogeneration, and renewable power, according to a major new study produced by the former chair of the Duke University Economics Department for NC WARN (North Carolina Waste Awareness & Reduction Network). read more...

To: President Barack Obama

From: Peter Zomick Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Re: Possible Solutions to Our Countries Energy Problems

March 13, 2009

Mr. President,

I would like to bring to light an energy efficiency opportunity that continues to go almost totally unnoticed and provides a greater cost benefit than most other solutions combined. My name is Peter Zomick and I am a partner in a rapidly growing company whose main focus is on demand side management from the customers’ side of the meter (not to be confused with Demand Response). Our on-peak demand control products and services not only reduce our clients’ electric utility bills, but also reduce the peak demand on the power plant level as well (considerably).

Unfortunately, our business model only works in territories in which the utilities offer a rate schedule that rewards customers for voluntary peak demand reductions. Perhaps I am missing something, but the answer to our countries electricity problem is pretty clear. read more...

The U. S. electric grid: will it be our undoing?

Published Wed, 05/07/2008 - 07:00 by Gail E. Tverberg

Published on Energy Bulletin (http://www.energybulletin.net)

Quite a few people believe that if there is a decline in oil production, we can make up much of the difference by increasing our use of electricity--more nuclear, wind, solar voltaic, geothermal or even coal. The problem with this model is that it assumes that our electric grid will be working well enough for this to happen. It seems to me that there is substantial doubt that this will be the case.

From what I have learned in researching this topic, I expect that in the years ahead, we in the United States will have more and more problems with our electric grid. This is likely to result in electrical outages of greater and greater durations. read more...

Blackouts and the Electricity Grid: What's to Come?

Lauren Covello - FOXBusiness

Blackouts -- on a large or small scale -- can deal a devastating blow to businesses and the greater economy, as well as jeopardize the health and safety of those affected. The massive blackout that rippled through the Northeast in 2003, for example, resulted in a loss of hundreds of billions of dollars for the economy (approximately $1 billion for New York City alone) and contributed to the deaths of at least 11 people across eight states and Canada.

Still, while the risk of blackouts is certainly a concern, some experts see them as a byproduct of a much bigger issue -- an aging and outdated electric grid.

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According to an electric power industry journal, 23 of the 25 power plants in the U.S. that have the lowest operating costs (and therefore provide power to their consumers at the lowest prices) are powered by coal.

U.S. electricity demand continues to increase even as energy efficiency gains are made. Despite the fact that we are continuing to become more energy efficient, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that electricity demand will grow by 41% by 2030.

Using coal to generate electricity is less than a 1/3 of the cost of other fuels.

Coal accounts for half of the electricity use in the U.S.

Coal costs less than any other major fossil fuel source.

From the President of Electric Solution

A letter to Google from David Johnson, President

The effort Google is making to help solve energy issues are most certainly to be commended. I would like to bring to light an energy efficiency opportunity that continues to go almost totally unnoticed and provides a greater cost benefit than most other solutions combined. My name is David Johnson and I have a small company in Western North Carolina called Electric Solution.

The solution is whole house (or building) Demand Control or Load Control wherein load control equipment installed on the customer’s side of the meter transparently maintains demand (kW) to certain programmed limits. The benefit to the customer is a reduction in electricity costs and the satisfaction that they are providing more capacity to the power plant. The benefit to the utility is that they are able to add more customers to an existing power plant and avoid using expensive peaking power generation. The use of whole house load control in 25,000 residences will allow a power plant to serve an additional 14,000 homes. I reduce my residential on-peak demand each month by a minimum of 60% and some months as high as 75%. In a typical residential installation the system monitors all of the electricity coming into the home and controls HVAC compressors, heat strips, air handlers, water heaters and the heating element of the clothes dryer – transparently!

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