Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Projects
Key Features
- Data Collection via Advanced Meters
- Meets Advanced Metering System criteria
- Measures electricity in time-stamped intervals of 5 minutes and stores info
- Water meters for potable and non-potable water use profiles
- Flow meters for gas and steam measurements
- Data Store for centralized data, up to 11 years
FEMP Setting The Pace for High-Performance Buildings
Federal energy managers, facility managers, and building operators are now required to measure energy usage to improve the operating efficiencies of federal buildings. Their new mandate is the result of the requirements in:
- Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) which requires electricity metering;
- Energy Independence and Securtiy Act which added steam and gas metering
- Executive Order 13514 which sets goals for greenhouse gas emissions.
Federal Buildings must:
- Monitor all consumption daily
- Measure electricity, hourly
- Install submeters by October 2012
- File an energy management plan by May 2012.
FEMP recommends that Federal Energy Managers adopt the most comprehensive approach – persistent, end-use monitoring with long-term data store.
Agilewaves Provides an Advanced Metering System
The FEMP program advises Federal Energy Managers to move to long-term monitoring to optimize building performance via Advanced Metering, defined as:
Data Collection via Advanced Meters
We’ve built an extensible data collection system that can integrate a range of meters:
- Electricity Metering
- Water meters for potable and non-potable water use profiles
- Flow meters for gas and steam measurements
Agilewaves' Data Store can also consolidate information from other sources:
- Export metrics to Data to other systems via standard .csv format
- Import Data from Building Automation Systems can be imported
- Import data from an SQL database
Agilewaves’ Turnkey Advanced Metering System for Federal Facilities
Agilewaves allows Federal Energy Managers to deploy an Advanced Metering System to
continuously monitor, measure and manage utility data accurately and securely. The system includes:
- Submetering to measure data on electric, water and gas consumption
- Breakdowns by utility, building areas (floors), circuits, key building systems
- Long term data store of time-stamped interval data, for up to 11 years
- Time-of-day reporting on an hourly basis
- Energy diagnostic reports to provide trends and usage patterns
- Budget allocation, ability to set “carbon diets” at granular level
- Forecasting information can be exported to other sytems
- Tracking renewables (solar, solar thermal, wind) to verify generation, and consolidate into overall energy load profile.
Agilewaves System Overview
