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Our GREENandSAVE Staff is always on the lookout for cost-effective energy savings to help business in Virginia become more sustainable. The Energy Intelligence Center has developed some excellent Chiller Plant Energy Savings ranging from 15% to 40% via their OptikW algorithmic software platform. The software solutions do not require new equipment and the compensation for the services is paved on the savings generated. This is a win/win for businesses and the environment.
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Optimization are core strengths of the Energy Intelligence Center. As sensor and control technology continues to improve, their team has demonstrated proven results using their advanced logic that leverages ambient conditions like temperature, humidity, and dew point to optimize HVAC systems.
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For an example of other sustainability solutions in Virginia, see: http://www.vcnva.org/energy-efficiency/
Investing in energy efficiency improvements can save money for consumers and taxpayers and reduce pollution of air, land, and water for the benefit of all residents. Efficiency simply means using less energy to accomplish the same results—heating, cooling, or lighting a building, lighting highways and other outdoor areas, and operating appliances or machinery. Energy efficiency programs have tangible financial benefits. By reducing electric demand, efficiency programs can reduce the wholesale cost of electricity. Additionally, deploying sufficient efficiency programs can avoid or delay the need for costly new generating and transmission facilities and for buying and burning fuel to operate those facilities. The cheapest and cleanest energy is the energy not consumed.
Unfortunately, energy efficiency is an under-utilized tool in Virginia. A decade ago, the Virginia General Assembly set a realistic target for utilities to reduce demand by ten percent by 2022.1Despite modest efforts to expand their efficiency portfolios, the combined efforts of Virginia’s two investor-owned utilities are less than one tenth of the way to achieving the Virginia General Assembly’s goals.2 Moreover, for those programs the utilities do propose, they have struggled to obtain complete approval from the State Corporation Commission (SCC).3 In an independent survey of energy efficiency progress by the largest electric utility companies in the United States, our largest utility ranked last.4
