Sunday, January 24, 2016: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM
Fundamentals and Applications
Chair:
Joseph Kilcoyne, P.E., SC Engineers, Inc.
Technical Committee: 01.04 Control Theory and Application
CoSponsor: 07.05 Smart Building Systems
Everyone is talking about improving energy consumption. However, if you can't measure it, you can't improve it. In a college setting where an entire campus may be fed from a single electrical or natural gas meter, individual building submetering is essential to identifying big ticket energy waste. This session highlights two different approaches to submetering: one campus which utilized their building automation system and the other which built a network of web-enabled sub meters tied into an energy dashboard. See how each campus is making their metering investment pay back through targeted benchmarking and monitoring-based commissioning.
1 From Submeters to Savings: How the San Diego Community College District Used a Submetering Project to Kickstart an Energy Savings Campaign
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Chris Manis, San Diego Community College District |
Details of a three year submetering project to install web based meters for all campus buildings is presented. The use of this data to target under-performing buildings for energy projects will be presented. Details of how the metering data for multiple uses such as energy dashboards, energy benchmarking, energy project baselining, and monitoring based commissioning will be presented.
2 Leveraging Building Automation Systems to Perform Metering and M&V
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Melissa Plaskonos, University of San Diego |
This presentation describes the various ways USD utilizes advanced submetering in their building automation system. Initially installed to assist in measurement and verification of energy performance contracts, USD’s building meters are used to track energy project savings in an ongoing retrocommissioning effort. The role that energy tracking has played in USD’s successful and repeated commitment to fund energy efficiency projects will be presented.