CopperTree was hired by a client to perform reporting on Green House Gas (GHG) emissions for a newly constructed building. Electricity and Natural Gas consumption were to be analyzed and reported on.
CopperTree was tasked with integrating with a metering solution that was stand-alone and not integrated to the BAS. A CopperConnector was deployed specifically for this integration, and it was successfully configured to transmit electricity consumption data to CopperTree’s Kaizen cloud analytics platform. Natural Gas consumption data for the building was collected from monthly utility bills.
CopperTree performed the energy analysis on the meter data by combining the two streams of energy usage information from the utility bills and metering system then, using its capable Kaizen platform, performed a thorough energy analysis using Degree Days weather normalization and regression to calculate kWh/m2/ft energy usage. In addition to normalized and benchmarked consumption data, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Natural Gas consumptions were also calculated.
It was identified that the energy and GHG emissions intensity for the building was higher than the as-built model numbers indicated it should be. CopperTree provided the client with a list of Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs) as identified by our FDD platform, which once acted upon, should lower the intensity numbers and bring it down to the as-built model projections. This will result in an annual reduction in GHG emissions of 47,696 kg!
