What exactly are we talking about when we discuss water efficiency and conservation? First off, we are still talking about energy efficiency and energy conservation because water and energy are inextricably tied. This is because, in order to use water, we must move it to where we need it. In order to move it, we need energy.

A DER can be made up of many things but the overall purpose of it is to “help support the delivery of clean, reliable power to additional customers and reduce electricity losses along transmission and distribution lines.” Distributed energy resources are small scale electricity resources that help to meet supply and demand by using their interconnectivity to the grid

In just a few short days it will officially be 2022! Although New Year’s is coming up, we still have a few weeks of winter weather ahead of us. As such, we must remember the importance of the little things we do to reduce energy use.

It appears to be a new trend for companies to take products that we use on a daily basis and recreate them in such a way that they generate electricity. Two products that fall into this category are wood floors and tires.

We depend on trees to clean the air, regulate the temperature, as well as a host of other things. As amazing and vital to our ecosystem as they are, they can’t produce sustainable energy. However, 3D printed trees can!

You may be wondering what Mechanical and Thermal Vapor Recompression is. It sounds extremely complicated, but the concept is actually very simple. It means to recapture thermal and vapor waste heat energy and reuse it. Simple enough, right?