It's time to future-proof our buildings - let's be grid-aware

A smart building can reduce energy consumption 20%-30% or more while keeping tenants comfortable, productive, and safe; respond in real time to utility requests for reduced demand (further reducing costs); and expand capabilities as new utility programs and technologies become available. It's time to future-proof our buildings via Echelon's Open Building Specification Guide, a proven approach to help building professionals define and architect open, energy efficient and grid-aware buildings.

"A grid-aware building is a building that is technology-enablced to respond to real-time events on the utility side of the meter in order to improve grid stability conditions or benefit from dynamic price signals," said Eric Bloom, research analyst at Pike Research.