Foundation for ENERGY STAR Projects

 

Boost ENERGY STAR Scores Via Real-Time Performance Data

The ENERGY STAR logo is recognized by 75% of the American public – making it a key tool for your sustainability or Green Marketing programs. Energy Star is effectively a label that designates buildings in the upper echelon of energy efficiency. While an Energy Star benchmark is voluntary in most cases, owners still pursue it because it's been shown to improve the asset value of a building and fetch higher rents. An increasing number of local governments - California, the District of Columbia, New York City, and Seattle - have passed legislation mandating that commercial buildings track their energy performance using ENERGY STAR’s Portfolio Manager to disclose ratings to the public. Under LEED certification, an ENERGY STAR rating of 69 is a prerequisite, and achieving credits for Energy Optimization requires a robust measurement foundation to set baselines, design energy efficiency measures, and track progress towards your credit goals.

How Can Agilewaves Help Improve Your ENERGY STAR Rating?

Agilewaves can provide a solid foundation for commercial building owners and managers seeking to improve building energy performance to improve benchmark scores: - Automated Benchmarking: Agilewaves can upload energy data via a seamless interface between Agilewaves and the ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager system to save time and improve benchmarking accuracy. - Energy Efficiency Measures: Our building energy management system was designed to pinpoint energy savings measures for continuous improvement in your building’s performance. We do that by helping you to profile and manage energy loads at multiple levels of detail.

Major Load Profiling

Most customers start by monitoring major energy consuming systems - HVAC for cooling and heating, and lighting zones - indoor and perimeter. Agilewaves can help determine where you're using the most energy, and also help you define time-of-day usage patterns. With Major Load profiling you can uncover the "low hanging fruit" - such as unnecessay lighting after hours or on weekends. One customer even discovered that his perimeter lighting was on during the day!

Building Sub-Metering

Adding circuit measurements provides the ability to drill down into energy loads. This is key to identifying specific areas – floors, lighting zones, classrooms, computer rooms - which may be consuming excessive amounts of energy, racking up demand charges or time-of-day premiums. Agilewaves Energy Diagnostic reports provide trends so you can uncover simple fixes such as delaying building warm-up/shutdown schedules to reflect occupant patterns, switching functions to off-peak hours or adjusting the temperature of an air-conditioning system. Any of these measures can quickly add up to significant savings – without significant capital investments. Tools to allocate costs by building areas will help you to engage business managers in saving energy too. Top Consumer reports, setting budgets or carbon diets and scoreboard displays in lobbies or on websites can help shape occupant behavior for additional savings.

End-Use Metering

To understand a building's overall energy profile, it may make sense to monitor individual pieces of equipment, including chillers, pumps, air handlers, and other HVAC-system components. Or, use our plug-load monitors to track individual appliances and office equipment. For example - air handling units can get stuck in a mode where they're heating and cooling simultaneously. Agilewaves sensors can spot the excessive cycling, allowing you to take immediate corrective action to reduce energy waste, sometimes dramatically. By identifying what's actually occurring day-by-day, piece of equipment by piece of equipment, you are likely to get an immediate “quick fix” payback by uncovering operational anomalies.

Measure What You Need to Manage

Agilewaves has the flexibility to mix metering levels in a building, campus or portfolio. We have a modular system - by design - so that you’re only investing in submetering when and where it’s justified. In fact, our clients often start with Major Load profiling to uncover operational variances that can be corrected, then later add circuit metering for key areas or systems. With Agilewaves, you can easily add new sensors and gateways to build out your system at a pace that’s justified. Your Agilewaves deployment can also “plug-and-play” with other systems: - Export metrics to Data to other systems via standard .csv format - Import data from Building Automation Systems - Import data from existing submeters. Ask us about our BACnet Connector and other integrations.

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