Flex Your Power 2006 Energy Summit

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Flex Your Power 2006 Energy Summit

• Joe Desmond
• Undersecretary of Energy Affairs
• California Resources Agency

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Governors Executive OrderS-20-04

• Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the order
  on December 14, 2004
• It establishes California's priority for energy
  and resource-efficiency in buildings and
  represents a commitment to aggressive action
• Leading by example, it sets clear goals for
  reducing building energy use, beginning with
  state buildings. This will be a recurring theme
  implementation in state buildings first.

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Governors Executive OrderS-20-04

• Sets a goal of reducing energy use in state-owned
  buildings by 20 percent by 2015 (from a 2003
  baseline)
• Encourages the private commercial sector to set
  the same goal.
• Directs compliance to the Green Building Action
  Plan which details the measures the state will
  take to meet these goals.

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Green Action Team

• Oversees and directs progress towards the goals
  of the Green Building Order
• Establishes a real estate industry council to
  ensure that plans and implementation strategies
  integrate with industry practices
• Interagency team comprised of agency directors to
  ensure a high level of prioritization and
  coordination

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Green Action Team
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Two Key EO and Green Building Action Plan Goals

• Develop and propose by July 2005, a simple
  building efficiency benchmarking system for all
  commercial buildings in Ca
• All state owned bldgs must be benchmarked
• Bldg managers must then prepare a plan for cost
  effective energy retrofits
• Develop commissioning and retro-commissioning
  guidelines for commercial buildings
• All state buildings over 50,000SF must be
  retro-commissioned on a recurring 5 yr cycle

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Benchmarking What is it?

• Benchmarking is a tool that estimates energy use
  per square foot of building space, allowing
  comparison with other similar buildings
• Benchmarking results should motivate the
  buildings owner or manager to take actions to
  improve the buildings energy use.
• The Energy Commission has completed a report on
  the progress of this activity and plans for
  benchmarking implementation http//www.energy.ca
  .gov/greenbuilding/documents/index.html

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Benchmarking Building Energy Performance

• The Energy Commission recommends the use of the
  Energy Star Portfolio Manager and is concurrently
  developing enhancements to the tool to more
  accurately represent CA buildings

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Benchmarking State and Private Buildings

• To date, about half of the state bldgs over
  50,000 SF have been benchmarked using the
  Portfolio Manager
• Benchmarking is voluntary for the approximately
  one million privately owned buildings but the
  Energy Commission is working closely with the
  CPUC and Ca utilities to offer benchmarking
  services to buildings owners, managers and
  tenants.

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Benchmarking State and Private Buildings

• The Energy Commission is encouraging and
  supporting the utilities implementation of the
  use of benchmarking by their commercial
  customers, and incorporation of benchmarking in
  the utilities 2006-08 efficiency programs.
• The Energy Commission will work with the Real
  Estate Industry Leadership Council to develop
  procedures for consumers to obtain benchmarking
  information on buildings being sold so that at
  the time of sale, this information is available
  to the buyer and lender if requested.

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Commissioning and Retro-commissioning

• Commissioning is the process of ensuring that
  building systems are designed, installed,
  functionally tested, and capable of being
  operated and maintained according to the owner's
  operational needs.
• Retro-Commissioning can restore existing
  buildings to high productivity through
  renovation, upgrade and tune-up of existing
  systems.
• Continuous commissioning ensures that systems are
  monitored for ongoing identification of problems
  or opportunities for improvement.

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Commissioning andRetro-commissioning
Through the Ca Commissioning Collaborative,
guides have been developed to assist owners in
the Commissioning process

• Two guides, One for new Construction and one for
  existing buildings
• Accessible, easy-to-read documents
• Helps owners understand the Cx process, benefits
  and costs, the Cx team, and how to get started
• It is not a how to guide for providers
• The guides are being published now and will be
  available at
• http//www.energy.ca.gov/greenbuilding/
• http//www.green.ca.gov/CommissioningGuidelines/
• http//www.cacx.org/

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Integrating Benchmarking and Commissioning

• Benchmarking alone will not achieve goals. It is
  simply the first step to identifying where the
  opportunities/needs are for energy savings
• Through benchmarking a building owner will learn
  where he can improve building performance
• energy retrofits
• improvements in operational efficiencies via
  retro-commissioning
• The greatest benefits will accrue through an
  ongoing benchmarking and continuous commissioning
  process

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Energy Savings Potential

• Studies have shown that the energy savings
  potential from commissioning is 6-12 and the
  potential for retro-commissioning is 7-20
• For the CA commercial sector, there is a
  potential for 2B in energy cost savings from
  commissioning
• One key issue now is establishing a way to define
  baseline energy use and document future energy
  use after retrofits and commissioning so that we
  can actually measure real energy savings from
  these activities