Energy & Infrastructure Audits

Energy audits are led by our Certified Energy Managers (CEM) with the qualifications necessary to deliver a high quality energy assessment that provide our customers with energy and infrastructure opportunities that can help them establish a strategy to achieve greater operational efficiency and reduce their facility's carbon footprint.  

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Our energy audits will deliver a comprehensive assessment of a facility's current energy systems and provide recommendations for operational efficiency improvements.  We follow an engineering regiment that follows a three step partnership based approach that ensures our solutions align with our customer’s objectives and challenges.

  1. Assess current systems. 
  2. Provide list of Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) and Facility Improvement Measures (FIMs). Utility, State and Grid incentives are leverages to reduce capital and improve project ROI. 
  3. Depending on the measure identified, we can also help with the implementation of the ECMs. 

Our turnkey project capabilities include: 
    1. Energy and Water Sub-Metering of critical building energy resources, which includes: cooling & heating BTU’s, Steam, Electrical, Water, Gas, Fuel Oil. These sources can provide significant information on system efficiency and performance. One of the most effective and commonly used metering systems we put in place includes the measurement of chiller system efficiency through the installation & integration of electric and BTU meters on central plant chillers. These installations deliver continuous operational visibility into a chiller plant's efficiency on an ongoing basis. This type of installation also provides central plant operators with visibility into continuous and live cooling demand data for system optimization and ultimately better management of their chiller plant.
    1. Pumps, Blowers and Fan Systems - The oversizing of these systems has been a common practice. As these support systems are typically sized for worst case conditions where a building or a process might need maximum air or liquid flow, these systems operate inefficiently 95% of the time. The proper sequencing and installation of VSDs to throttle their operations to meet the demand for cooing or heating will contribute to a more efficient and reliable system. Proper system control and sizing ultimately contributes to less START / STOP's, more continuous and balanced operations and improve building comfort from reductions in system cycling. 
    2. Waste Heat and Cooling Recovery - Manufacturing processes as the term suggests includes value added processing of raw materials. These processes typically include the application of heat or cooling to these raw materials. Whenever heat or cooling is applied, there exists the potential for energy waste and possible recovery of these BTUs from the process. The feasibility of BTU recovery rests within the cost to value assessment associated with the quality of the heat or cooling available for recovery. 
    3. Control Systems for efficiency gains through integration - Within the past 20 years, mechanical system manufacturers have had to shift their product strategies from primarily designing and constructing hardware to producing more intelligent equipment that can be integrated and controlled as a component of an overall process. During this rapidly changing period, these manufacturers were forced to standardize on communications protocols, level of integration they would individually deliver as well as whether they would be the integrator or the integrated component within a specific process. As one might imagine, this rapid pace of change brings much confusion and inefficiencies. EES will assess a system's operations and identify possible benefits from better system integration and sequencing. 
    4. Compressed Air System Optimization - Compressed air systems have become an essential component of the manufacturing process. It provides rapid and high energy delivery to actuating devices and vacuum Venturi devices. The opportunity for compressed air system optimization comes from the common practice of how these systems are designed and installed. Typically a facility starts small with 1 compressor. As sales grow for these manufactured products, additional compressors are added. A simple system that started with 1 or 2 compressors has now tripled in size. When a compressed air system has more than 3 compressors, it can benefit from the implementation of a central Smart Sequencer to control system START / STOPs and the loading of the compressors. The scale of the opportunity depends on the variability of demand, compressor sizing and the rate of air demand fluctuation. 
    5. Process Load for COGS Determination vs. Building; Energy Management System for Energy Segregation - As a subset of Utility Sub-Metering, some of our customers have looked to understand the energy use mix to determine the true COST OF GOOD SOLD (COGS) to allocate their overhead energy and their process specific energy use. 
    6. Variable Speed Integration with Controls - Well deployed variable speed controls helps to balance the supply and demand for a resource. Our assessment will aim to provide a better understanding of the opportunities that exists within these motor driven systems. 
    7. Lighting - LED Lighting has been a stable measure within the energy efficiency space for the past 10 years. As LED technology has continued to evolve and deliver greater lumens per watt efficiency, lighting projects are able to deliver quicker ROI.