{"id":2363,"date":"2018-12-07T11:38:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2018-12-07T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:38:43","slug":"marylands-data-center-energy-efficiency-grant-honored-at-data-center-dynamics-2018-industry-initiative-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/12\/07\/marylands-data-center-energy-efficiency-grant-honored-at-data-center-dynamics-2018-industry-initiative-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland\u2019s\u00a0Data Center Energy Efficiency Grant Honored at Data Center Dynamics 2018 Industry Initiative of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2364 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1327\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-1.png 1327w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-1-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-1-768x548.png 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-1-1024x731.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1327px) 100vw, 1327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maryland\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/business\/Pages\/incentives\/DCEEG.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Center Energy Efficiency Grant (DCEEG)<\/a>\u00a0 was named as a finalist for a 2018 Global Data Center Award, presented by DatacenterDynamics, an international business-to-business media and publishing company. Maryland\u2019s DCEEG was selected from over 200 global entries as a finalist in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.datacenterdynamics.com\/news\/dcd-awards-2018-shortlist-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Industry Initiative of the Year<\/a>\u00a0category.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in October of 2016 by the Maryland Energy Administration, the DCEEG was the first of its kind program in the U.S. advocating energy efficiency measures for data centers from a state energy office.\u00a0This program improves the energy efficiency of data centers and builds the public\/private relationship.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2368\" style=\"width: 1353px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2368\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2368\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1343\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-2.png 1343w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-2-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-2-768x570.png 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/12\/London-Awards-2-1024x759.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1343px) 100vw, 1343px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DCEEG Program Manager Rory Spangler and his wife Rachel at the\u00a0Data Center Dynamics 2018 Industry Initiative of the Year awards.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations to the University of East London for winning the award this year for their\u00a0EURECA project. EURECA project\u00a0provides tailored solutions to help identify the cost saving opportunities whilst signposting the environmental impact of procurement choices in data centers. To read more about EURECA and their work, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dceureca.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for the current cycle of the DCEEG are due December 22, 2018. To apply now, click <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.maryland.gov\/business\/Pages\/incentives\/DCEEG.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland\u2019s\u00a0Data Center Energy Efficiency Grant (DCEEG)\u00a0 was named as a finalist for a 2018 Global Data Center Award, presented by DatacenterDynamics, an international business-to-business media and publishing company. Maryland\u2019s DCEEG was selected from over 200 global entries as a finalist in the\u00a0Industry Initiative of the Year\u00a0category. Launched in October of<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/12\/07\/marylands-data-center-energy-efficiency-grant-honored-at-data-center-dynamics-2018-industry-initiative-of-the-year\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,25,10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}