| Initiative
Name |
Geographic
Area
|
General
Description |
Contact
Information |
ENERGY
STAR for Commercial Buildings
|
National
|
ENERGY
STAR for Commercial Buildings offers building owners and managers
a suite of tools to assist in understanding and managing energy
usage in their buildings including the National Energy Performance
Rating System (or "Portfolio Manager"), financial
value calculators, and ENERGY STAR labeling for qualifed buildings.
|
Tracy
Narel, EPA
T: 202-343-9145 |
Building
Tune-Up Program
|
East
Bay and Sonoma Counties, California (PG&E)
|
The
BTU program provides free retrocommissioning evaluations to
building owners and operators in East Bay and Sonoma Counties
in California. In addition to obtaining written guidelines for
systems improvement, operators receive tailored incentives to
help cover the cost of adopting recommended measures. The program
runs from 2006-2008, with a savings goal of 18.6 million kWh
and a budget of $3.4 million in the PG&E service territory.
|
Derrick
Rebello, QuEST
T: 510-540-7200
|
San
Diego Retrocommissioning Program
|
California
(SDG&E)
|
SDG&E
offers customers technical assistance and financial incentives
to promote RCx projects. The program was designed to expand
RCx capabilities in the region by developing and disseminating
clear protocols and report templates, offering training, and
verifying the persistence of RCx benefits. Projects follow a
five-stage process: candidate screening; building scoping; RCx
investigation; implementation; and follow-up documentation,
training, and tracking.
|
Emily
Moore, PECI
T: 503-248-4636 |
Connecticut
Retrocommissioning Pilot
|
SW
Connecticut
(CL&P, UI)
|
The
Retrocommissioning (RCx) program is designed for CL&P and
UI commercial and industrial customers who want to identify
inefficiencies in their building's energy management system
and implement energy-efficient measures. Pre-qualified RCx agents
survey, investigate, and implement energy-savings opportunities
and the program provides financial incentives for implementation
of the measures.
|
David
McIntosh, Northeast Utilities Service Company
T: 203-352-5457 |
Xcel
Recommissioning Program
|
Colorado,
Minnesota
(Xcel Energy)
|
The
primary goal of Xcel Energy's Recommissioning Program is peak
demand savings. The program offers study rebates to cover 50%
(not to exceed $15,000) of the cost of Recommissioning and Retrocommissioning
services conferred or equipment installed since January 1, 2006.
Rebates for electricity savings differ slightly between the
programs offered in Minnesota and Colorado.
|
Sherryl
Volkert, Xcel Energy
T: 612-337-2140
|
Centerpoint
Energy Commercial and Industrial Retrocommissioning Program
|
Texas
|
The
Commercial and Industrial Retrocommissioning Program is designed
to achieve both peak demand reductions and energy savings from
improvements in facilities' operational performance. The program
subsidizes the costs of hiring a qualified RCx agent to perform
an evaluation, requiring each building owner to commit to a
$10,000 investment on improvments that have a simple one-year
payback.
|
Aniruddha
Ani Duttagupta, Nexant
T: (713) 982-5560 |
ENERGY
STAR Benchmarking Initiative
|
Massachusetts
(NSTAR)
|
NSTAR
helps customers rate building energy consumption using the ENERGY
STAR Portfolio Manager. The building energy performance score
is used to start a dialog about the building's energy use and
opportunities for improvement. Following review of the score,
NSTAR conducts a comprehensive building assessment and develops
a 12-month action plan for implementing recommended measures.
NSTAR works with the customer to identify eligible technical
assistance and financial resources from other NSTAR programs
to help with project implementation.
|
James
Armstrong, NSTAR
T: 781-441-8166 |
LA
County Energy Efficiency Partnership Program
|
LA
County facilities
|
$1.2
million is available to initiate RCx services for Los Angeles
County facilities through a partnership between LA County, Southern
California Edison, and Southern California Gas. Through the
two-year program, the HVAC systems in ten County buildings will
be retrocommissioned.
|
R.
Anthony Pierce, SCE
T: 626-633-7186 |
|
Northwest
Energy Efficiency Alliance
BetterBricks Initiative
|
Idaho,
Oregon, Washington, Montana |
The
Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance's Commercial Sector Initiative
(CSI), known as BetterBricks, is a market transformation program
that was implemented in 2006. The CSI is working with three
vertical markets (hospitals, grocery stores, and real estate)
to increase demand for energy efficiency. The building operations
aspect of BetterBricks will focus on building owners and service
providers by delivering business and technical assistance, education
& training, and product and service development support
to improve building performance. |
Janice
Peterson , NEEA
T: 503-827-8416 ext.232 |
NYSERDA
RCx Initiative
|
New
York State
|
The
RCx Initiative is a pilot market transformation program designed
to expand adoption of RCx in New York State. The program conducts
targeted outreach to leading commercial and institutional building
owners and property managers to improve awareness of the many
benefits of RCx and increase demand for RCx services. The program
also works to expand the availability of qualified RCx service
providers in New York State.
|
Kim
Lenihan, NYSERDA
T: 518-862-1090 |
Energy
Trust of Oregon Building Tune-up Program
|
Oregon
|
The
Building Tune-Up and Operations (BTO) program has two distinct
services for energy savings and incentives: boiler tune-ups
and whole-building tune-ups and retrocommissioning. In 2006-2007,
the program seeks to save approximately 300,000 therms of natural
gas and 6,700,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. New projects
are no longer being taken, and current projects will be completed
by end-of-year 2007.
|
Josh
Warner , PECI
T: 503-595-4494
PECI Tune-up Program
|
