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strider3700 · 11-02-10, 01:45 AM

I was reading in the local paper that the regional district that I live in spends a little over $800,000 per year on electric. They aren't a huge institution or anything, I bet the city doubles or triples that.

What I did find interesting is they like most of the large organizations here have energy managers and their new policy has them doing a 10% reduction this year.

The most interesting part however is they are doing real time monitoring of all of their usage and if they identify any improvement that has a 10 year payback or less they have to make that change. This is why solar hot water is popping up on pretty much all of the government buildings around here.

My biggest complaint is in one case they ripped out 1-2 year old plumbing and redid a bunch of it to add the solar hot water to a local conference center. The rules force the change but nothing forced them to build it intelligently in the first place.

11-02-10, 01:45 AM	#20
strider3700 Master EcoRenovator Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Vancouver Island BC Posts: 745 Thanks: 23 Thanked 37 Times in 30 Posts	I was reading in the local paper that the regional district that I live in spends a little over $800,000 per year on electric. They aren't a huge institution or anything, I bet the city doubles or triples that. What I did find interesting is they like most of the large organizations here have energy managers and their new policy has them doing a 10% reduction this year. The most interesting part however is they are doing real time monitoring of all of their usage and if they identify any improvement that has a 10 year payback or less they have to make that change. This is why solar hot water is popping up on pretty much all of the government buildings around here. My biggest complaint is in one case they ripped out 1-2 year old plumbing and redid a bunch of it to add the solar hot water to a local conference center. The rules force the change but nothing forced them to build it intelligently in the first place.