Energy Management
The Energy Control Center - Coming fall 2009
Utilities & Energy Management monitors many thousands of temperatures, pressures and flows in its various utility production and building control systems. The Energy Control Center will serve as a centralized location for the monitoring, analysis, and efficient dispatching of utility information.
State-of-the-art hub
- State-of-the-art hub will simultaneously monitor energy information for the supply and demand sides of the campus.
- Energy production and consumption can be viewed as a single dynamic system through use of energy management software
Live displays of energy usage
- Live displays of energy usage for all of the buildings connected to the campus utilities systems (steam, electric, chilled water) will be monitored and evaluated by energy engineers.
- "Building dashboards" of real-time energy consumption will help building occupants reach target goals for energy reduction and provide immediate feedback on their efforts
Real-time predictions of energy consumption in every building
- Historical data will be correlated to weather data to create real-time predictions of energy consumption for every building meter on the campus utility systems.
- Using weather forecast information, the software will predict the building-by-building campus steam, electric and chilled water loads for the campus 24 hours in-advance.
- Information can be used to decide which chillers, boilers and turbines to dispatch in advance of their need, which, in kind, provides for better strategies in purchasing and utilizing raw energy such as coal, natural gas and electricity.
- Software provides ad-hoc trending tools that combine production data and consumption data as one integrated source for easy troubleshooting and analysis.
Check back this fall when we will have live displays of energy usage for all of the buildings connected to our campus utilities systems!
For more information, contact:
George Paterson |
Zuhair Mased |