Steps to Achieving Savings
Facilities Assessment
We begin by conducting a walk through of your facility with a person who best understands your facility’s electrical system. During the walk through, we will gather information about the electrical system, equipment operations, electrical billing issues and history, power quality challenges and electrical maintenance challenges. Once we have gathered and analysed our information, we will offer an estimate on a minimum cost savings and project ROI.
Engineering Design Phase
Using the information gathered above we will prepare a detailed report outlining our proposed approach to designing a custom energy savings system around your facility’s individual needs. This approach involves an in-depth site survey that identifies the data that is needed to engineer and design the system.
This survey offers a great deal of insight about your electrical system, including:
• A detailed inventory of all the electrical loads in the facility and their placement, which is useful for maintenance, insurance and tax purposes.
• A calculation of the historical usage and cost to operate these electrical loads by category
• Analysis of the effective load and run times of your lighting and equipment
• Reviews of your billing history for usage and demand characteristics
• Detailed visual inspection for your electrical distribution system
• Interviews with your staff
With all the information gathered and analysed, we then design a custom energy savings system to meet your facility’s individual needs. The design is then provided to you with an overview of the types and functions of technologies to be used in your system, and it fully explains the requirements, timeline and anticipated results of the remainder of the project.
Project Installation
Advanced Energy Dynamics will provide all the necessary technology to develop your custom system. We coordinate all installation work, which is performed by licensed electricians according to applicable codes, regulations and facility-specific safety and operational requirements.
As the system is being installed, "before" and "after" data will be captured. We will then follow up on a regular basis and make sure you are satisfied with the results. We measure and verify a system’s performance using methods in compliance with the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP). This protocol was established by a network of energy professionals and organizations from more than 25 countries to standardize the methods by which energy conservation projects are measured and verified.