The March Top Partner Solutions are in! Check out this roundup of real-world replicable pathways to decarbonization, efficiency, financing, and more. Dive in to learn how other organizations are overcoming barriers and reaping the benefits.
Riseboro Community Partnership Sets Records with Knickerbocker Commons Building
Knickerbocker Commons is New York’s first 100% affordable multifamily building built to the Passive House standard. By designing the 24-unit building with Passive House standards in mind from the start, Riseboro Community Partnership achieved 60% in energy savings. Read more.
Milking the Savings: Skyven Technologies Enables Decarbonization at California Dairies, Inc.
Financial ally Skyven Technologies leveraged its Energy-as-a-Service model to blend public and private project finance in the implementation of six decarbonization projects with California Dairies, Inc. Through Skyven’s support, these projects will save more than 100,000 MMBtu of natural gas and over 7,000 MT of carbon emissions annually. Read more.
City of Chattanooga’s Moccasin Bend Environmental Campus
Building on its Better Buildings Challenge goal achievement, City of Chattanooga made the ambitious goal of upgrading its facilities, including the Moccasin Bend Environmental Campus wastewater treatment plant. Chattanooga took a holistic approach to water and energy efficiency upgrades, including a solar installation, saving nearly $1.4 million annually. Read more.
Decarbonization Download: 5 Questions with Gundersen Health System
The healthcare sector faces unique challenges in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency – but unique challenges also bring unique opportunities. In this conversation with former Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Gunderson Health shares two things healthcare organizations can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Watch the episode.
State of Minnesota’s Energy Savings Performance Contract leads to Major Savings in Bemidji
The City of Bemidji utilized a citywide Energy Savings Performance Contract to upgrade eight city buildings in addition to its streetlights and wastewater treatment plant. With diverse efficiency improvements to energy management controls, building envelopes, lighting controls, and more, the city achieved 14% energy savings. Read more.
Marriott Implements Measurement and Verification Process for New Technologies
In pursuit of its goal to reduce carbon and water intensity by 30% and 15% respectively by 2025, Marriott International established an internal Measurement and Verification process for accessing new energy-saving technologies, products, and services. Read more.
Geothermal, Solar, LED Lighting, and more: Parkway School District’s Sweeping Efficiency Upgrades
As the largest school and most significant energy consumer in Parkway School District, Parkway South High School was a prime candidate for efficiency improvements. Parkway installed a central geothermal plant, LED lighting, a 75 kW solar array, and more, ultimately reducing the school’s energy use by 21% and saving more than $100,000 annually. Read more.
Lendlease: Understanding Resident Energy Behavior through Energy Management Systems
Challenged by a lack of resident energy use information and limited education related to resident energy use behavior, international property and infrastructure group Lendlease piloted a Building Energy Management System (BEMS). With BEMS installed in nearly 4,500 homes, Lendlease reduced electricity by an anticipated average of 16%. Read more.
PLENCO Achieves Compressed Air Savings with System Upgrades
As a manufacturer of phenolic resins and thermoset molding materials, PLENCO’s production team relies heavily on compressed air. To reduce consumption, PLENCO rented an ultrasonic flow meter through the Better Plants Diagnostic Equipment Program, which grew into a series of projects designed to improve the operation of compressed air systems across multiple buildings. Read more.
Slipstream Enables Free Commercial Building Energy Analysis with Sketchbox Modeling Tool
Conventional energy models can be expensive, slow, and complex. To combat these barriers, Slipstream created Sketchbox™, a free, user-friendly web-based energy modeling tool that allows for early energy simulation to inform commercial building design and improve building performance without adding cost. Read more.
Designed to Deliver: UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Hall is Built for Efficiency
UC Berkeley’s Jacobs Hall was designed to use 90% less energy than the national median for university buildings. UC Berkeley installed a 74 kW solar array, providing approximately 60% of the building’s energy use, as well as passive ventilation, efficient heating and cooling, and more, resulting in 39% energy savings and $17,000 in cost savings against the ASHRAE standard baseline. Read more.