Energy Management Information Systems
Technology Solution: Energy Management Information Systems
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Energy Management Information Systems can enable significant energy savings, often with rapid payback. Businesses are continually learning how to apply these technologies which include advanced energy information systems, benchmarking and utility tracking tools, equipment-specific fault detection and diagnostic systems, automated system optimization, and building automation systems. Through the EMIS technology solutions team, partners help to promote EMIS, create resources on the basics of EMIS, develop procurement templates, and organize a forthcoming campaign to drive market adoption and sharing of best practice approaches to operating systems. |
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Participate in expert-led technology teams, test out an implementation model, join a technology campaign, or take part in a technology challenge or demonstration.
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Partner List
Through the Better Buildings Alliance, over 200 public and private sector organizations across the country are working together to share and replicate positive gains in energy efficiency.
Featured Solutions
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EMIS Specification and Procurement Support Materials Specification This package of materials guides you through the specification, procurement, and selection of an Energy Information System (EIS) or related building energy performance monitoring and diagnostic technology.
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This framework can be used as a first orienting step; it does not detail specific technology features, but instead provides a high-level overview of primary applications within each category. |
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This report documents a large-scale assessment of energy information system (EIS) uses, costs, and energy benefits, based on a series of focused case study investigations that are synthesized into generalizable findings. |
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EMIS Crash Course Slides General Slides from the EMIS Crash Course webinar.
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Regional Guide to EMIS Incentives Guidance This guide introduces incentive and financing programs available to support the installation and use of EMIS in commercial buildings.
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Other Resources
Guidance
Energy Information Handbook Guidance
This handbook will give you the information you need to plan an energy-management strategy that works for your building, making it more energy efficient.
Report
The focus of this study is energy information systems, broadly defined as performance monitoring software, data acquisition hardware, and communication systems used to store, analyze, and display building energy data.
Additional Information
Wireless Meter Challenge
Following the model of the Better Buildings Alliance Rooftop Unit Challenge, the Better Buildings Alliance's Technology Solutions Teams have issued the Low-cost Wireless Meter Challenge to industry to produce a cost-effective, wireless metering system capable of electrical energy measurement at various locations in a building and wireless communication to a remote data collection point within the building complex.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Prior research in energy information systems, including projects, publications, and presentations.
Energy Information Handbook (hardcopy)
An instructional resource on the use of utility, interval meter data, and system-level data to improve operational efficiency.
The Building Performance Tracking Handbook: Continuous Improvement for Every Building
A resource from the California Commissioning Collaborative regarding a comprehensive process for performance improvement, including the use of EMIS.
Energy Management Information Systems: Achieving Improved Energy Efficiency
Instructional guide for the understanding and implementation of EMIS, published by the Office of Energy Efficiency of Natural Resources Canada.
Handbook of Web Based Energy Information and Control Systems
Three edited volumes by Barney L. Capehart and other authors.
Web Based Enterprise and Building Automation Systems
View the listing for this guide on Amazon.
Web Based Energy Information and Control Systems
View the listing for this guide on Amazon.
ISO 50000 Series of Standards
International Standards Organization (ISO) energy management standards, covering topics such as energy audits, continuous energy management systems, measuring performance using energy baselines and performance indicators, and measurement and verification of energy performance.
Priorities
Meet the Technology Expert
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Jessica Granderson is a Research Scientist and the Deputy of Research Programs for the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division at LBNL. She is a member of the Commercial Buildings research group. Her research focuses on building energy performance monitoring and diagnostics, and intelligent lighting controls. Jessica holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mechanical Engineering from Harvard University. Jessica leads the Energy Information Management Systems Technology Solutions Team for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance. |