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Energy Audits Need a Digital Upgrade

William Attardi on September 26, 2025

Traditional audits still have merit, but often they miss live inefficiencies. Artificial Intelligence tools reduce human error and generate immediate insights that could mean measurable savings. Automation is not new to manufacturing but the scope of the technology is leading to novel applications as industry leaders rethink energy management. Traditional audits still have merit, but often they miss the live inefficiencies that persist in production systems. Artificial Intelligence tools reduce human error and generate immediate insights that could result in measurable savings for those systems. Can AI Help Conduct an Energy Audit and Find Savings Opportunities? | Enterprise Data | American Machinist

Energy-Efficient Lighting Can Still Provide Opportunities for Energy Savings, DNV Study Finds

William Attardi on April 18, 2025

The study was undertaken in partnership with 11 organizations across the U.S. and Canada The study identified six separate “next generation” commercial lighting opportunities that are most likely to produce significant program savings or are gaining traction in the market. It graded these opportunities according to the potential size of the market, potential to deliver meaningful program savings, and ease of delivery. Three opportunities—higher efficacy LEDs, advanced lighting controls, and redesign LED-to-LED retrofit—are considered mass market opportunities and have the ability to fit into established energy management programs or have the ability to scale. The other three opportunities—demand management, germicidal UV, and tunable lighting—are niche market opportunities that apply to specific conditions and customers, and, while have the ability to provide energy savings, are not suited to broad adoption.  Energy-efficient lighting can still provide opportunities for energy savings, DNV study finds

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind – The last time human beings headed moonward was on the Apollo 17 flight that launched Dec. 7, 1972—before any of the Artemis II crew members were born. Today’s crew will not land on the moon—they won’t even orbit the moon. But they will whip around the lunar far side, on a shakedown mission test-flying the Orion spacecraft. This is essential preparatory work for achieving NASA’s bigger lunar goals. Next year there will be another test flight in low Earth orbit during the flight of Artemis III, followed by up to two moon landings by Artemis IV and V in 2028, and annual landings thereafter. Unlike the Apollo program, Artemis aims not just for the so-called flags-and-footprints model of short, one- to three-day stays on the moon, but for a long-term presence at a long-term moon base in the south lunar pole, where deposits of ice can provide drinkable water, breathable oxygen, and oxygen-hydrogen rocket fuel. Very much like the Apollo program, Artemis finds itself in a closely watched moon race, not with the old Soviet Union this time, but with China, which has announced its intention to have astronauts on the moon by 2030. The U.S. is not going it alone this time, however. While Apollo was an entirely American enterprise, Artemis flies under the flag of 60 countries, signatories to the Artemis Accords, an international pact whose members vow to support the peaceful exploration of space and contribute money, modules, and astronauts to the Artemis cause. Artemis II Has Launched. Here’s Everything You Need to Know