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Federal Technology Strategies for Energy Efficiency, 2010-2015 (Jun 2010)
INPUT's report, Federal Technology Strategies for Energy Efficiency, examines the federal government’s information technology-related approaches for reducing energy consumption, such as the cloud computing, data center consolidation, virtualization, building technologies (primarily building management systems) and its promotion and connection to the smart grid.
Description
INPUT’s report, Federal Technology Strategies for Energy Efficiency, explores the legislative and budget considerations driving energy policy, mandates, and goals from the current and previous administration. It discusses the strategies and actions used to reduce the federal government’s energy consumption and carbon footprint. The report segments the major federal energy efficiency information technology-related markets and examines the evolution, current market dynamics, growth, and future of:
Smart Grid Modernization
Building Technologies, especially Building Management Systems (BMS)
Green IT (including cloud computing, virtualization, data center consolidation, and energy efficient hardware)
Key Findings
Past agency energy efficiency progress has been slow. However, imminent mandated deadlines are driving increasingly urgent rapid momentum and creating high-growth markets and opportunities for vendors. The overall federal energy efficiency market portends to become large and rapid in its evolution and growth, presenting first mover advantages; it is already creating new greenfield market segments.
Most existing federal buildings are older and inefficient in that they have disparate, proprietary, independently-controlled legacy systems, such as HVAC, access and security, fire and safety, and lighting. The federal government is moving quickly to invest in building management systems that can unify those disparate systems and maximize efficient energy use.
Progressive agencies are starting to integrate building management systems (BMS) with enterprise business software, such as enterprise or network management systems, ERP systems, business analytics and other software to identify, plan, implement, measure, and report energy efficiencies.
Without the required in-house expertise, agencies are struggling with planning and implementing sustainability programs.
Expect federal agencies to green their supply chains soon. This means that not only will vendors’ products need to be green, they will also be expected to become green in their business operations and required to report to the federal government their own progress toward reduction of energy consumption or carbon footprint.
Critical Insight for Vendors
The legislative and technology drivers shaping the federal government’s energy efficiency strategies
The technology approaches being pursued by federal agencies to meet energy reduction goals
Major energy project funding and contract vehicles
Active smart grid, cloud computing, virtualization, BMS, and green computing opportunities and major vendors
Market forecasts and growth rates for cloud computing, virtualization, BMS, and green computing
The report is delivered in PDF format and also includes an executive briefing and forecast data in Exce
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