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Exhibitor Profile:
Enovity
Across the Sacramento River from the 2008 California Green Technology
Summit, Sacramento’s iconic Ziggurat building served as a perfect case
study for Expo visitors who wanted a first-hand look at the results and
benefits of a comprehensive retro-commissioning program. The building,
headquarters for California’s Department of General Services (DGS), is the
site of a recently completed effort that is now saving DGS an estimated
$72,000 yearly in energy costs through a reduction of the building’s
electricity consumption of 550,000 kWh and 100 therms. This represents a
reduction of 7 percent of the building’s energy use and is the equivalent
of 219 metric tons per year of CO2 that will not be introduced into the
atmosphere. The building retro-commissioning effort also helped the
facility in its ongoing initiative to qualify the building as a LEED-certified
Existing Building (EB).
Enovity, Inc., Summit exhibitor and San Francisco based energy engineering
firm, completed the retro-commissioning under its Innovative Energy
Efficiency Partnership Program for State Leased Facilities. Enovity
developed and implements this CPUC-funded program on behalf of PG&E and
the California ratepayers to reduce energy consumption in California State
leased buildings.
Enovity paid $57,000 in cash incentives to the building’s owner, Wachovia
Bank, NA to help pay for the implementation costs associated with the
retro-commissioning measures. These measures included improvements to the
control of the central plant and HVAC equipment and building lighting
systems and the addition of variable speed drives for the building’s
cooling tower fans. Enovity’s retro-commissioning engineers worked closely
with Ziggurat facility staff to identify and implement measures that were
practical, achievable and verifiable. DGS has an ongoing commitment to
save energy and Enovity created the DGS Partnership Program to address the
market barriers to implementing energy efficiency strategies in their
leased facilities. The program is still accepting applicants, helping
California in its nation-leading efforts toward an energy efficient and
sustainable future.
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