Siemens`s Energy Management System Featured in Distributed Energy.

“Despite the fact that we have decades of consuming energy, we’re really still at the early stages of figuring out how to consume it and produce it as efficiently as possible,” he says. “We see technology continuing to be integrated into facilities across all four of these applications, so the future is one where we literally will create a world in which energy management is as integral as accounting to the operation of every organization.

“That’s very simply a nod to the fact that we believe the big trend here is the convergence of energy management and information technology,” adds Dixon. “You wouldn’t think about managing a business without fully integrated technology that provides real-time, high-quality data that supports financial decision-making. The day of the pencil and ledger are long gone to manage finances. Yet today, with energy management—if it’s done at all—we do it with a pencil and piece of paper so we see that information technology is going to get integrated deeper and deeper into facilities to automate and make easier energy management.”

Siemens recently purchased an energy management hardware and software provider called Site Controls, creating a new business segment within Siemens called Retail and Commercial Systems (RCS) and keeping “Site Controls” as the name of the product line for retailers, health clubs, and other chains.