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UTILITIES MASTER PLANNING - NJ has an Energy Master Plan - Do You?

  

  • No/Lo cost efficiency improvements
  • Capital efficiency improvements
  • Energy Master Plan capital improvements – efficiency, demand and grid stress relief
  • Best operating practices & constructions standards
  • Real time energy management
  • Energy procurement (budget and cost)
  • Tenant electric revenue maximize
  • Management - leadership – policy – success celebration

Sustainability

  • State regulatory and public entity ESG sustainability reporting and targets require setting portfolio goals and establishing metrics for success.

             To this end we:

  • Establish achievable goals and doable time schedules.
  • Provide periodic management reporting and variance analysis.
  • Address adverse variances and facilitate solutions.
  • Identify positive variances and replicate them throughout the portfolio.

Utility Expense Management

Electricity, Natural Gas, Steam, Oil, LPG, Water, Sewer:

  • Engineering & design - Licensed professional engineer (NJ and PA) with HVAC design credentials enable efficient facility energy audits to identify and implement HVAC operating and capital improvements.
  • Utility regulation management - Monitor New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York legislative and regulatory policies that increase energy rates and intervene as applicable.
  • Budgeting & forecasting - Produce weather & occupancy adjusted budgets.

Strategic Energy Procurement

  • Default utility service rates computed by account.
  • Third Party (ESCo) proposals solicited by account.
  • Transact only accounts demonstrating savings.
  • Periodic savings metric reporting.
  • Price risk bandwidth and supply terms established and negotiated in accord with client requirements.

Tenant Electric Revenue Improvement

  • Time-of-Use ("TOU") tenant billed rates can be 30% higher than average rates that landlords typically apply.  Higher tenant utilities revenue lowers building costs.  Representative NJ commercial office revenue improvement typically 12 - 15 cents per SF. 
  • Establish  TOU facility monthly electricity rates.
  • Guide billing agents in application of electricity rates to produce monthly tenant electric bills.

Energy Operating Efficiency - Best Practices

  • 5-10% consumption savings.
  • Energy density bench marking yields relative facility efficiency portfolio rankings to prioritize action.
  • Energy use awareness - periodic usage diagnostics and walk-through audits - help motivate facility engineer's operating practices.
  • Successes and challenges experienced throughout the portfolio are shared and analyzed with facility engineers and managers.
  • Emerging technologies are evaluated and if beneficial advanced by collaboration with finance and operations groups as applicable.

Real Time Energy Management Implementation

  • Real time operation fitness shows web browser real time energy use vs. historical and facility custom Goal Profile.
  • Analytics develops best practices Goal Profile.

  1. Goal Profile captures historical Building Automation System, electricity, weather, and physical occupancy data.
  2. Benchmark to comparable top performing facilities.
  3. Consult with facility engineers for Goal Profile agreement.
  4. Goal Profile target with actual real-time energy use provides near instant operator awareness and opportunity for best practices action thus maximizing energy efficiency.


Energy Efficiency Project Development

  • Identify potential efficiency improvement opportunities per walk-through audit.
  • Quantify project economics.
  • NJ Clean Energy incentive programs leveraged to maximize cash ROI.
  • Comprehensive NJ Large Energy Users Program (NJLEUP) incentive management (applies to portfolios approximately 2 million SF and larger).


NJ LEUP Financial / Project Summary Example:

  • Capital:  $4.0M
  • Incentive:  $2.3M
  • Net capital:  $1.7M
  • Savings/Year:  $0.5M
  • Cash ROI:  ~30%

Portfolio Technical Advisory

Support portfolio policy by providing engineering and design advice on many potential technology applications:

  • Air ionization systems.
  • Air ultraviolet light sanitation.
  • Fuel cells.
  • Utility metering systems (electric, BTU, water).
  • Solar photo voltaic systems.
  • Various HVAC technologies
  • Lighting and control systems.
  • Building automation systems.
  • Variable Frequency Drive  ("VFD") systems.
  • Power conditioning systems.
  • COVID-19 protocols.
  • Other technologies as may arise.

Regulatory Compliance & Accreditation Support

  • LEED Certification.
  • EPA Energy Star Benchmarks and Labeling.
  • Environmental Sustainability Governance ("ESG") metrics and reporting.
  • Local Law 97 compliance.
  • NJ DEP regulations requiring fossil boiler replacement.
  • Other related services as may arise.

COVID-19 PROTOCAL MANAGEMENT

  • Update operating protocols per current industry guidelines.
  • Assess existing HVAC system operation risk.
  • Observe personnel operating practices and HVAC system performance for operating guideline conformance.
  • Recommend equipment and systems to mitigate risk.
  • Marketing direction and asset positioning for tenant retention and attraction.
  • Lease language modifications minimizing landlord COVID-19 operating and capital cost exposure.


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