Supermarkets and their employees now recognized for their essential role in our society, find themselves on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic focused on keeping shelves stocked while trying to maintain social distancing protocols. Refrigeration systems are operating at full capacity due to the unprecedented...
To open your monthly employee meeting with the statement “we’re just saving the world” is a bold and, in many aspects, true statement. Can that statement be proven? Are they men and women of steel blocking meteorites from pummeling into the earth? Well, by definition,...
EC plug fan retrofits are one of the most common and impactful ways that I find to reduce data center energy consumption. This article is meant for data center owners and operators of facilities served by CRACs or CRAHs[1] with constant speed fans. Here are...
Energy efficient design is more than just choosing equipment with the highest energy efficiency rating. Real world building operating conditions must be accounted for to ensure energy savings. Energy modeling, not nameplate ratings, is key to specifying equipment that will yield the highest energy and...
We recently released an update to our R package, nmecr, used for NMEC analysis. This version provides a bug fix and vignettes for the R code. is an open-source set of tools for analyzing commercial building energy consumption using a meter-based, whole-building approach for measurement...
For my 2020 resolution I’m making a pledge to take action and reduce my carbon footprint, and I hope that you’ll join me. I’m making a real, concerted effort this year to reduce my carbon footprint as low as I can get it. That means...
If you reside outside the world of energy efficiency, you might not be familiar with an energy audit. Perhaps you just want to reduce operating expenses by lowering your utility bills? Maybe you need to meet corporate sustainability goals? An energy audit can be the...
When you get a bunch of energy engineers in a room you’ll start hearing a lot of acronyms like Cx, RCx, and MBCx to name a few. It can be overwhelming to anyone not living and breathing building energy efficiency. So, let’s break down what...
Your employees may be on vacation but your computers and office equipment don’t get one, unless you give them one. With sparsely occupied offices over the holidays, it’s the perfect time to think about how your business can save energy and help the planet by...
We are very excited to announce that kW Engineering released open source R code today for analyzing site-level, meter-based energy savings. Our will make it much easier for energy efficiency program implementers to analyze energy efficiency project impacts using the normalized metered energy consumption (NMEC)...