Description of energy efficiency best practices and measures available via Cape Light Compact's free commercial & industrial program audit.

1. November 5, 2012
Nicole Price & TJ Turner

2. What is the Cape Light Compact ?
 Represents all 15 Cape Cod and 6 Martha’s Vineyard towns and 2
Counties
 Inter-municipal Organization
 Formed in 1997
 Municipal Aggregator, obtain competitive power supply
 Administer Energy Efficiency Programs
 Advocate for Consumers

3. Green Communities Act impact on
Energy Efficiency
Signed into law July 2, 2008
Among other things, a legislative mandate that requires:
"electric and natural gas resource needs shall first be met
through all available energy efficiency and demand reduction
resources that are cost effective or less expensive than supply.”
And embraced the concept of Negawatts

4. Energy Efficiency Objectives
 Reduce Energy Use without compromising
productivity, comfort or ambience
 Reduce Individual Bills
 Protect the Environment

5. How will we meet our objectives?
 As energy prices rise, bring technology to the rescue!
 Help pay for energy saving upgrades through audits
and incentives
 Work with National Grid Gas to leverage resources
 Educate our workforce
 Provide technical assistance to businesses building
new or retrofitting existing buildings

6. Why do we need an Energy
Management Plan?
Electric Costs per kwhr
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Colored lines are local utility rates.

7. Why do we need an EMP?

8. Why Energy Planning?
What’s new?

9. Energy Planning
First and foremost: Turn it off!
US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu meeting with President Barack Obama

10. First: Train your Building Operators!
www.theboc.info/

11. Next: Utilize Free Resources
O&M Best Practices
 www.eere.energy.gov/femp

12. More Free Resources
COMcheck
www.energycodes.gov/comcheck/ez_download.stm
US Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.gov/beta/state/?sid=MA

13. More Free Resources
EPA Energy Star Building
Portfolio Manager

14. The Best Free Resource:
The Energy Audit
 RISE Engineering
TJ Turner, Small Business Specialist
 Accurate Hours of Operation are of the utmost importance

15. High Value Efficiency Measures
1. Lighting, Lighting, Lighting!!
 Reduced Wattage Fluorescents T8 and T5 with electronic ballasts
 LED Lighting (limited applications)
 Occupancy sensors
 LED Exit signs
 Refrigeration display cases
2. HVAC/Controls
3. Plug loads/Controls
4. Refrigeration
5. Vending Machines
6. Hotel/Motel Occupancy Controls
7. Pool Pumps
8. Variable Frequency Drives
 Pumping applications
 Air handling

16. Compact Fluorescent Lighting
(CFL)
Compact Fluorescent lights use about ¼ the
electricity and last 13 times as long as
incandescent. (13W vs 60W)

17. LED Lighting
 LED – Light Emitting Diode
 Lasts about 50 times longer than Incandescent
 Specialty Applications

18. Occupancy Sensors
 Controls HVAC and/or
lighting when space is
not occupied
 Improved technology
senses both infrared
body heat and motion

19. High Bay Lighting
 Higher light output, more convenient and economical
control

20. LED Lighting
 Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights use about 1/10th
amount of energy compared to incandescent
 For more info, read Posting by Jim Brodrick:
 http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ssl/postings.html

21. HVAC Controls
 Programmable thermostats save energy without
sacrificing comfort
 Rough “Rule of Thumb” Save 1% per 1 degree F
setback per 8 hour period

22. Variable Frequency Drives

23. Hotel/Motel/B&B
Energy Management Systems
 Systems designed to determine whether a
room has been unoccupied for a
predetermined length of time
 Will control settings on HVAC and/or Lighting
in unoccupied rooms

24. Energy Efficiency or Renewable Energy?
 Let’s consider both!
 But let’s be sensible about it!
 Get your footprint as small as possible with energy
efficiency and then finish the job with renewables!
 You have to finish your broccoli before you can have your
dessert! – Jason Turgeon, EPA New England Region

25. Wrap Up
 To request an audit be scheduled call Pam Anderson
(508) 240-7873
 Or, fill out the intake form in your materials and we’ll
begin the process today
 Or, you can call (800) 797-6699 and tell the person
who answers the phone that you attended the C&I
Green workshops on the Lower Cape
Questions?