Much like capital plans and building condition assessments, Energy Audits and Energy Management Plans are becoming essential tools for building owners to evaluate, plan, prioritize, and implement projects that impact capital and operating budgets. The Save On Energy Audit Funding Program helps owners capitalize on incentives to better understand energy use in buildings and to identify opportunities to reduce energy costs whether it’s through equipment replacement, optimizing the operation of existing equipment, or improving operational practices. This event will highlight what audit incentive programs are available and provide some tips for getting the most value out of the audit process. Industry experts will be on hand to answer your questions.

1. Presented by: Shawn Carr, P.Eng
Audit Funding Program Update

2. TODAY’S OBJECTIVES
Audit Funding Goals and Results
The What and Why of Energy Audits
Review Audit Funding incentives, eligibility, and application
process
Engage our Panelists with questions on Audit Funding
Case Studies – Using audit funding incentives to uncover
your biggest savings potential!

3. Open for business
We need your continued
support
August 2015 until 2020
400GWh target within our
territory (7 billion KWh in ON)
2015 – 2020
CONSERVATION
FIRST FRAMEWORK

4. WHY ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTS
ARE NOT COSTS BUT ASSETS TO BE
MANAGED
Lowering Operating Costs
Reducing GHG’s
Satisfying sustainability
initiatives
Green Building Certification
and Labelling Systems
Improving tenant comfort
Demonstrating Leadership
through benchmarking
Emulating Best Practices in
other buildings
Responding to a mandate
Preparing for mandatory
disclosure
Productivity Impact

5. OPTIMIZING RESULTS
Occupant UseBuilding
Operations
Building
Systems
Savings
Savings
Savings
ESA: Tenant
Energy Audits
System
Optimization
ESA: Building
Energy Audit
Retro-
commissioning
Focuses on
Operations
-Complicated
systems/controls
-Troubleshooting
required
-Has BAS
Energy Audits Focus on
Equipment
- Renewal
- Simple systems and controls
- Typically no BAS analysis
Content provided by WSP

6. Audit Stats since 2011
250 Audit Funding Applications
$1,200,000 incentives issued
60+% of sites audited so far have
applied for Retrofit Incentives

7. Incentives to Owners for completing building
energy audits, RCx studies, and Building
System Audits.
Incentives to Tenants of facilities for
completing energy audits within their space.
AUDIT
FUNDING

8. AUDIT FUNDING PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Incentives for
Energy Studies
Audit Funding
Program
Four levels of
incentives
Electricity Survey
& Analysis for
Owners
For Energy Audits on
Entire Building
Electricity Survey
& Analysis for
Tenants
For Energy Audits of
Tenant Spaces
Building System
Audit
For optimizing
existing system
performance
Detailed Capital
Intensive
Modifications
For deeper analysis
on capital projects
identified in ESA
Existing Building
Commissioning
For Rcx your Chilled
Water System
Process &
Systems
For customers running
complex systems

9. AUDIT FUNDING AND
EB COMMISSIONING
PROGRAM CHANGES
Changes being considered for
2016 and beyond:
EB Commissioning to expand
beyond chilled water to include
other electricity consuming
building systems
Detailed Analysis of Capital
Intensive Modifications may
be discontinued

10. AUDIT FUNDING OBJECTIVES
Help you achieve Greater Energy Efficiency
Investigate Benchmark Implement Measure

11. ASHRAE LEVEL AUDITS
LEVEL 1: WALK-THROUGH
SURVEY
LEVEL 2: ENERGY SURVEY
AND ANALYSIS (ESA)
LEVEL 3: DETAILED ANALYSIS
OF CAPITAL-INTENSIVE
MODIFICATIONS (DCIM)

12. BUILDING OWNERS AND TENANTS
ELECTRICITY SURVEY
AND ANALYSIS
• Connected to the LDC’s distribution system, classified as non-residential.
• Own or lease the building
• Not eligible if the facility has already received a ESA.
• Auditor must be a P.Eng, CEM, or Building Assessment Professional (ASHRAE)
• Meets ASHRAE Level 2 requirements
• Commitment to implement no/low cost measures (<$1,000 and <1 year payback)
Applicant Building Size Incentive
Building Owner Up to 30,000
sq.ft
$0.10/sq.ft to a maximum of 50%
Building Owner Larger than
30,000 sq.ft
$3000 for 30,000 sq.ft and
$0.05/sq.ft thereafter up to
$25,000 or 50% of audit costs
Tenant Any Size $0.03/sq.ft up to $7,500 or 50%
of audit costs

13. BUILDING OWNERS
BUILDING
SYSTEM AUDIT
• Analysis of energy savings by optimizing existing building systems (Ventilation,
chilled water distribution, DHW distribution, Controls/BAS, AHU’s, etc)
• One incentive per building system to a maximum of $50,000
• Can be used to evaluate design options/repair strategies through an energy lens
• Excludes lighting systems
Building Size Incentive
Any 50% of audit costs up to
$5,000

14. BUILDING OWNER
EXISTING
BUILDING CX
• Incentives to evaluate and increase chilled water system efficiency.
• Equipment older than 3 years and not had a major overhaul in last 2 years
• No planted overhaul or replacement in next 2 years
• Refer to participant agreement and report requirements for more details.
Phase Incentive Requirement
Scoping Study Up to $2,500 or 100% of cost -Commissioning Agent
must have certain
credentials
Investigation $6/ton for data logging equipment (up to 75%
of costs)
$18/ton for preparing Cx report (up to 75% of
costs)
Up to a maximum of $30,000
Data Acquistion System
installed to log
performance data
Project M&V plan
Implementation Up to $5,000 or 100% of cost for
implementation report
Implement measures
with simple payback <2
years
Hand-off/Completion Up to $2,500 or 100% of cost for completion
report
Analysis of yearly
energy
consumption/savings

15. BUILDING OWNER
PROCESS &
SYSTEMS
• Different payment terms and M&V requirements depending on Incentive Stream
Phase Incentive Requirement
Investigation Preliminary Engineering Study (PES): Up to
$10,000
Detailed Engineering Study (DES): Up to
$50,000
- 100 MWh of
Annualized
Savings
Delivered
- - 3rd party
review of report
Project
Implementation –
Behind the Meter
Generation Projects
(i.e: Combined Heat
and Power, Waste
Energy Recovery)
- Compressed air
systems
Three Incentive Streams:
Small Capital Incentives (<$1,000,000)
- Up to 70% of project cost or $200/MWh
Large Capital Incentives (>$1,000,000)
- Up to 70% of project cost or $200/MWh
Retrofit Program
-Up to 50% of project cost

16. HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
Establish Eligibility
Apply to Program
Obtain Pre-Approval
Receive Cheque
Engage us early to
determine best funding
path based on your needs
Submit Application & Participant
Agreement and review audit report
requirements before beginning your
audit
Refer to Post-Project
Evaluation Checklist
Submit Post-Project
Documentation
LDC reviews report and
meets with you to discuss
implementation plans and
deliver cheque
http://cdm.hydroottawa.com/support-
centre/worksheets-and-forms

17. Bentall Kennedy - Sun Life Financial Centre
• Electricity Survey and Analysis Audit with some Rcx
• Building Simulation
• Design Systems Analysis for Cooling Plant
• Audit Project Cost: $49,000
• Audit Incentive Paid: $24,500
• Led to $2,000,000 capital upgrade of cooling plant
• $536,000 retrofit incentive from Hydro Ottawa
• Projected Annual Savings: $185,000

18. QUESTIONS?
Shawn Carr
Shawncarr@hydroottawa.com
613-738-5499 ext. 7474