Commercial Building Analytics: Energy Use During the Summer

Commercial buildings waste as much as 35% of the energy they consume as a result of degraded equipment, poor building controls, ventilation or pressurization issues, and ineffective systems. With commercial building analytics, these losses can be identified, isolated and resolved. At Advanced Energy, we gather data and use software applications and sophisticated algorithms to assess building energy consumption and locate instances of energy loss.

Building Sub-Metering

PROS:

• High energy assessment accuracy
• Insight into building energy consumption by end use

CONS:

• Expensive and time-consuming
• Potentially hazardous, requiring significant effort by specialized personnel

Predictive Analytics

PROS:

• Potential for valuable insight into building population energy use
• Analysis naturally lends itself to automation techniques that reduce costs
• Efficiently focus building energy management attention on critical performance outliers

CONS:

• Reduced overall accuracy of energy assessment