IBM ( IBM) and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) Join Forces to Make Buildings Smarter

IBM ( IBM) and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) Join Forces to Make Buildings Smarter

Combined Offering to Enhance Energy and Operational Efficiencies

LAS VEGAS, Feb. 22 IBM ( IBM) and Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI), today announced a new relationship to create a new era of smarter buildings. Together, the companies will team to provide a Smart Building Solution that can improve operations and reduce energy and water consumption in buildings worldwide.

Building on an existing relationship formed between the two organizations in 2007 to create energy efficient datacenters, this new offering benefits any building or portfolio of buildings. Johnson Controls will combine its global leadership in energy efficiency and sustainable services and technologies with IBM's global leadership in software, hardware and services. The result will help clients address the growing pressure they face to improve energy and asset management performance across their enterprises.

"The integration of IBM Tivoli software and Johnson Controls' building technology solutions provides complete information in order to make decisions that impact the bottom line," said Clay Nesler, Johnson Controls' vice president for Global Energy and Sustainability. "With our Smart Building Solution, energy and asset management is enhanced in new ways that optimize environmental performance and operational efficiencies across a single building or an entire portfolio of buildings."

Key elements of the offering are designed to address critical building performance areas including systems integration, energy management, enterprise reporting, space utilization, and asset management.

•Systems Integration: The integration of building systems, business systems and smart grid technologies using Johnson Controls' EnNet and IBM software offers increased information on the performance of buildings to reduce operating costs and keep occupants safe, comfortable and productive.
•Energy Management: Energy management offerings that use energy waste detection, reporting, and intelligent control capabilities have proven potential to drive between 10% and 20% energy savings across an enterprise. The Johnson Controls' Metasys® Sustainability Manager combined with IBM business analytics software provide building owners, operators and tenants with actionable information to help reduce energy consumption and waste.
•Enterprise Reporting: The Johnson Controls' Energy and Emissions Management System, with IBM enterprise reporting capability provides organizations with the capability to calculate greenhouse gas levels by measuring, managing and forecasting activities related to energy cost, consumption, energy efficiency projects, fleet emissions, and waste.
•Space Optimization: Johnson Controls' Visible Living Lab tools and services combined with IBM building space management solutions and advanced analytics provide visibility across any building or building complex, driving between 10% and 20% improvement in space utilization. Under-used space can be identified and more efficient options defined, including footprint consolidation, divestiture and relocation.
•The Johnson Controls Metasys® Building Management System integrated with the IBM Maximo asset management solution provides tools and services that deliver between 10% and 20% savings across enterprises by enabling visibility across a building portfolio, boosting the efficiency of facility operations, and improving occupant safety and comfort, use and lifecycle management.


"The Smart Building Solution from Johnson Controls and IBM will deliver the ability to optimize energy and environmental performance by integrating building, infrastructure, and enterprise systems," said William Sawyer, Vice President, Tivoli Maximo Operations, IBM Software Group. "This will provide our clients with advanced intelligence capabilities that will measurably improve building operations."

Core solution components include IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management, IBM Business Services Manager, and IBM Maximo Asset Management, IBM Maximo Asset Management for Energy Optimization; and Johnson Controls' Metasys Building Management Solution, Metasys Sustainability Manager, Energy and Emissions Management System, EnNet middleware, Visual Living Lab and Technology Contracting services.

For more information about Johnson Controls, visit www.johnsoncontrols.com.

For more information please visit www.ibm.com/smarterplanet and http://www.ibm.com/ibm/servicemanagement/index.html.

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Green Investor News - UK Energy Minister Opens Europe’s First Smart Grid Center at GE Energy’s UK Headquarters

Green Investor News - UK Energy Minister Opens Europe’s First Smart Grid Center at GE Energy’s UK Headquarters

Lord Hunt “Encouraged by Proven Technology Solutions to Power United Kingdom with Cleaner Energy”

BRACKNELL, United Kingdom----U.K. Energy Minister Lord Hunt today officially opened Europe’s first Smart Grid Center at a ceremony held at GE Energy’s Bracknell headquarters. The new center supports the United Kingdom’s effort to help consumers use energy more efficiently and cut carbon emissions.

In his remarks at the event, Lord Hunt cited “the need for a concerted effort to build a smarter electricity grid” and called on utilities, technology companies and consumers “to work together with government for a smarter energy future.”

The technologies that will improve energy efficiency for consumers across the United Kingdom will be showcased at GE’s (NYSE: GE) new Smart Grid Center, the first of its kind in Europe. The center offers visitors the first-ever “generation to appliances” view of the smart grid, showing utilities, government and consumers the many dramatic energy-management and carbon footprint-reducing advances available today.

“With increasing global demand for energy and on the eve of the Copenhagen climate change talks, now is the time to re-think how we deliver smarter, cleaner and more efficient electricity,” said Magued ElDaief, managing director of GE Energy U.K. “In addition to participating in the global dialogue to plan a better energy future, GE has been building and testing real-world solutions that are ready to deploy today.”

At the event, the government announced the publication of a smart grid policy document and the results of a “2050 Vision document” drafted by the Energy Networks Strategy Group.

”The U.K. government’s goal of installing smart meters in every home by 2020 is a valuable step towards smarter energy usage,” said ElDaief. “In the United Kingdom, GE already provides grid management technologies for 13 of the 14 distribution network operators. Our solutions at the Smart Grid Center show how we can further maximize performance from power plants to neighborhood distribution and ultimately consumer usage in the home, the school and the workplace.

“We invite utilities, scientists, government officials and engineers to visit our Smart Grid Center and work together towards a cleaner, smarter, more efficient energy future,” concluded ElDaief.

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Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NasdaqGS:AEIS) develops grid connect inverters for the solar energy market. Advanced Energy® also develops innovative power and control technologies that enable high-growth, plasma thin-film manufacturing processes worldwide, including semiconductors, flat panel displays, data storage products, solar cells, architectural glass, and other advanced product applications.

Ambient Corporation (OTCBB:ABTG) designs, develops and markets Ambient Smart Grid® communications technologies and equipment. Using open standards-based technologies along with in-depth industry experience, Ambient provides utilities with solutions for creating smart grid communication platforms and technologies.

American Superconductor (NASDAQGS:AMSC) The company operates in three segments: AMSC Wires, SuperMachines, and Power Electronic Systems. The Power Electronic Systems segment develops and sells power electronic converters, as well as integrated systems, used for power quality and reliability solutions and for wind farm applications.

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