Sustainable Energy "Sustainability"

Sustainable Energy "Sustainability"

Sustainable energy is energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects. Another common definition of sustainable energy is an energy system that serves the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
 Renewable energy is not a synonym of sustainable energy. While renewable energy is defined as one that is naturally replenished on a human timescale, sustainable (often referred to as 'clean') energy is one the use of which will not compromise the system in which it is adapted to the point of not being fit to provide needs in the future. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics, and culture. Sustainability science is the study of sustainable development and environmental science.

Sustainable development aims at societies where living conditions and resource use continue to meet human needs without undermining the integrity and stability of the natural systems. Following sustainable principles has often been regarded as an obstacle to economic profit, but few investigations have been made on the matter. There is also a question of how it might boost the economy. It is an urgent matter to achieve a sustainable economy. The critical question as to whether and how companies implement SDGs in their strategies, innovations and diversity concerns remains largely unsolved. How do companies implement SDGs in their strategies, innovations and diversity concerns?

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Energy Audit Principles

Energy Audit Principles

An energy audit is an inspection, survey, and analysis of energy flows, for energy conservation in a building, process or system to reduce the amount of energy input into the system without negatively affecting the output(s). In commercial and industrial real estate, an energy audit is the first step in identifying opportunities to reduce energy expense and carbon footprints.
A home energy audit, also known as a home energy assessment, can help you understand the whole picture of your home's energy use. An audit can help you determine how much energy your home uses, where your home is losing energy, and which problem areas and fixes you should prioritize to make your home more efficient and comfortable. A home energy audit should be your first step before making energy-saving home improvements, as well as before adding a renewable energy system to your home.

An audit is designed to determine where, when, why and how energy is being used. This information can then be used to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, decrease energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Energy audits can also verify the effectiveness of energy management opportunities (EMOs) after they have been implemented.

A home energy audit is a service where the energy efficiency of a house is evaluated by a person using professional equipment (such as blower doors and infrared cameras), with the aim to suggest the best ways to improve energy efficiency in heating and cooling the house.

An energy audit of a home may involve recording various characteristics of the building envelope including the walls, ceilings, floors, doors, windows, and skylights. For each of these components, the area and resistance to heat flow (R-value) are measured or estimated. The leakage rate or infiltration of air through the building envelope is of concern, both of which are strongly affected by window construction and quality of door seals such as weatherstripping.

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Green Energy Basics

Green Energy Basics

Green energy comes from natural sources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, plants, algae and geothermal heat. These energy resources are renewable, meaning they're naturally replenished. In contrast, fossil fuels are a finite resource that takes millions of years to develop and will continue to diminish with use.

Renewable energy sources also have a much smaller impact on the environment than fossil fuels, which produce pollutants such as greenhouse gases as a by-product, contributing to climate change. Gaining access to fossil fuels typically requires either mining or drilling deep into the earth, often in ecologically sensitive locations.

Green energy, however, utilizes energy sources that are readily available all over the world, including in rural and remote areas that don't otherwise have access to electricity. Advances in renewable energy technologies have lowered the cost of solar panels, wind turbines and other sources of green energy, placing the ability to produce electricity in the hands of the people rather than those of oil, gas, coal and utility companies.

Green energy can replace fossil fuels in all major areas of use including electricity, water and space heating and fuel for motor vehicles.

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Why Utility Bill Analysis?

Why Utility Bill Analysis?

Utility Bill Analysis is a quick, comprehensive method that aims to identify errors in your energy bill and compare your building's energy performance with others.

This will determine if you are overpaying for your energy in addition to better understanding how energy efficient your building is. 

Many times at the beginning of our search for savings, we look at the utility bills. This can help identify if there are any available savings on the Supply or Demand side of our energy costs. The Supply Side savings would be based on what we are paying to purchase the energy. The Demand Side has to do with reducing costs associated with energy usage.

Energy Management Program will focus on identifying where and how we are spending our energy dollars and where hard savings can be generated. Utility Bill analysis can be done with low upfront costs or through shared savings, which may well pay for any future energy improvements.

Any energy management program is incomplete if it does not track utility bills. Equally, any energy management program is rendered less effective when its utility tracking system is difficult to use or does not yield valuable information. In either case, fruitful energy savings opportunities are lost.

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Energy Audit

Energy Audit

Today’s buildings are complex and have interdependent systems with sophisticated controls. Therefore, even a small operational problem can greatly disrupt a building’s performance.

Optimizing a building’s energy consumption requires an approach that allows devices and systems to function together in an efficient and cost-effective way to meet occupant requirements and expectations. This approach is called “commissioning” for new buildings and “recommissioning” for existing buildings. When it is applied in a permanent manner to an existing building, it is called “ongoing commissioning”. "Natural Resources Canada".

Energy saving helps in two ways: protection of the environment and reduction in energy bills. An energy audit is a process to determine when, where why, and how energy is used in a plant or a building. It typically involves one or more of the following: Data collection, Plant surveys, Measuring instruments, Observation of processes, and Data analysis.

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Who? Why? Building Operator

Building Operator: “a person who has the appropriate skills needed for the day-to-day maintenance and operation of large facilities that have complex heating, mechanical, and electrical systems along with specific knowledge of how to operate the facility in a way that takes into consideration the interplay of building systems to maximize energy and resources efficiency, reduce waste, and provide superior indoor air and other qualities”.

Operations and Maintenance are the decisions and actions regarding the control and upkeep of property and equipment. These are inclusive, but not limited to, the following: 1) actions focused on scheduling, procedures, and work/systems control and optimization; 2) performance of routine, preventive, predictive, scheduled and unscheduled actions aimed at preventing equipment failure or decline with the goal of increasing efficiency, reliability, and safety.

The cost of energy is worrying us all. Whether you’re a parent to young children running the washing machine daily or operating a small business on a shoestring, or managing an important property, saving energy and cutting bills is a priority. But as the price of energy on the international markets rises, and energy suppliers pass on the cost of investment to their consumers, it can feel as if we’re powerless to act.

Maintenance and repair are often overlooked as a possible source of savings, but there are strategies that can be employed which result in significant savings in this department. There are traditional strategies that companies use to save money on maintenance, but they usually prove to be counterproductive in the long run. Some of these strategies are: letting machines run to the point of failure, bargaining for reduced prices on spare parts, and using cheaper parts and upgrading materials.

However, more effective strategies can be employed through smart qualified "Building Operations Management".

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