Building Technologies

Energy and Infrastructure Upgrade

ProgramUtilizing National Grid Incentives

Rensselaer County Office Building

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Project Team

• Siemens– Tom Garrett – Account Executive– Bill Clark – Energy Engineer– Rob Brash – Project Manager

• National Grid– Mike DiAcetis – Solutions Rep.– Gene Hickok – Technical Support Coord.

• Rensselaer County• CHA• DV Brown• ZeroDraft

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Project Benefits to County

• Allows necessary facility improvements and repairs to be made without using capital or maintenance budgets.

• Guaranteed performance with Siemens accountable for results.

• Reduce expenditures for utility, technology, service and operations.

• Provide life-cycle cost solutions and technology improvements.

Building Technologies

Rensselaer County Office Building

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• Five story building, about 80,000 sq.ft.

• Originally constructed as a school

• Home to 26 County Departments

• Perimeter baseboard heating via 2 aged sectional boilers

• Cooling via a 30 ton RTU, AHU, and Liebert for data center

• No existing EMS

– RTU cycled on/off manually

– AHU supply fan had catastrophically failed – RAF used to supply air

– Chiller for AHU controlled by manually altering the chilled water supply T

– No zone valves for heating – manually controlled

Pre-Existing Building Conditions

Building Technologies

Rensselaer County Office Building

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• Energy Management System Installation

• Demand Control Ventilation

• Replace 30 – Ton Rooftop Unit

• Hot Water Reset Controls

• Replace Electric Domestic Hot Water Heater with a Natural Gas Fired Unit

• Replace Space heating Boilers with Condensing Units

• Upgrade Lighting

• Weatherization Improvements

• Replace Emergency Generator

Facility Improvement Measures

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• Apogee System Installed

– Two workstations

– Boiler room components

– Main AHU, Chiller and Cooling Tower

– RTU

• Scheduling

• Demand Control Ventilation

• Heating zone valves and sensors

• VFD on Main AHU Return and Supply Fans

• Hot Water Reset Controls

• Filter pressure sensors and alarms

• Retro-comissioned face and bypass dampers – provided for “free cooling”

EMS Installation

Building Technologies

1. Determine desired project scope

2. Contact Grid Account Manager/Solutions Representative

3. Explain process to client – contract is with the client

4. Understand programs available (evolving)

5. Determine projects that can be funded and complete applications

– Custom measures

– Prescriptive measures

6. Pre-project installation survey

7. Technical review of application

8. Pre-Approval letter from National Grid

9. Implementation of project

10. Post-installation verification

11. Client gets paid

Steps in Obtaining National Grid Incentives

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Prescriptive Measures

1. Boiler replacement $30,000

2. Lighting upgrades $57,785

Custom Electric Incentives

1. DDC Controls $32,850

2. Demand control ventilation $11,271

Custom Natural Gas Incentive (DCV) $47,171

TOTAL INCENTIVES $179,077

Measures that did not qualify

1. Hot water reset & zone controls

2. DHW heater conversion to NG

3. RTU replacement

4. Building weatherization

National Grid Incentives