Did You Know?

The New Energy Plan aims to:

• Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined.

• Put one million plug-in hybrid cars—cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon—on the road by 2015; cars that Obama and Biden will work to make sure are built here in America.

• Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050

• The stimulus includes $38 billion for the Departmetn of Energy

• Create over five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next 10 years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.

• Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.

 IN THIS ISSUE

 Stimulus Plan

 Ave Maria

 Metering

 Upcoming Events

 Links

 Did You Know?

What the stimulus plan means for energy efficiency and alternative energy

In February 2009, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, more commonly referred to as the economic stimulus package. Experts expect that monies tied to this act will be flowing sooner rather than later, due to a provision of the act “All spending associated with the stimulus package must be spent by 2011.”

What does this mean? The government is intending on acting fast, and the monies tied to this act will be a catalyst for numerous projects in the energy efficiency and alternative energy field. Key aspects of the bill pertaining to the energy field are:

From this plan, it seems like there will be much movement and initiative in the energy field in the next several years. As President Obama stated, “We’ve seen enough. We can remain the world’s leading importer of foreign oil, or we can become the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy.”

To find out more details about the Recovery Act, visit www.recovery.gov. To find out more about Eaton’s alternative energy solutions, click here.

Ave Maria Project

Ave Maria University, the first new Catholic University in the US in nearly 40 years, successfully integrated IT and facilities with a PowerChain® Management solution from Eaton. In this video, Bryan Mehaffey, Ave Maria’s Vice President of Technology Systems and Engineering, describes how Eaton’s PowerXpert architecture formed the foundation for effective energy monitoring, energy conservation and cost reductions. Says Mehaffey, “When I was introduced to the PowerXpert product line, I was completely blown away. Not only did it deliver on all of my needs and all of our requirements, it exceeded those requirements. It actually brought more ideas to light that we hadn’t even thought of and things that we can possibly do with a power-management system."

Watch a video about the Ave Maria project here.

Metering—you have to be able to measure to know what you are saving.

In order to benchmark energy use and potential energy savings, it is imperative to have the capability to measure energy consumption. Eaton offers several products that do just that. The IQ and PowerXpert® metering products available to you can provide accurate real-time system values, capture waveforms and system events (including transients, flicker, other voltage disturbances and harmonic distortion). They can also graphically display this data directly on the device and/or through a variety of software products designed for additional and more detailed evaluation, including communicating directly to the meters via the Internet through a standard Web browser.

Eaton's PowerXpert meters detect and analyze potentially costly power quality problems, as well as monitor energy consumption and efficiency in real time throughout a building. PowerXpert software aggregates information into understandable charts and graphs that allow users to identify energy-saving opportunities.

To learn more about Eaton's metering solutions, click here.