Energy Management
Government agencies and private industry seek to identify the most efficient and effective means of maintaining energy management programs, while conserving limited financial resources.
Organizations strive to integrate best management practices, compliance, and sustainability into daily operations, while faced with interpreting and implementing a vast array of regulations.
CALIBRE’s Offerings
CALIBRE provides a wide range of energy management and integration support. Our services include audit and validation, energy management systems, energy management training, energy planning and analysis, energy security assessment, smart grid interoperability, and sustainability planning and advisory.
Audit and Validation
The Energy Independence Security Act of 2007 and Executive Order 13514 require our government customers to provide transparent reporting of their performance in meeting or exceeding waste, energy, and water reduction goals. CALIBRE’s audit and validation services help our customers develop and improve their business processes by focusing on project results. We conduct comprehensive measuring techniques to verify energy project performance at the appropriate time interval and perform project feasibility studies, facility condition assessments, and energy savings performance contracts.
Energy Management Systems
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires installation of meters on government buildings. CALIBRE’s Meter Data Management System (MDMS) provides business intelligence by retrieving and transmitting meter data via secure internet to a central database for all energy commodities. MDMS generates reports and provides accurate, secure, on-time delivery of actionable energy metrics to stakeholders from the individual facility to headquarters. CALIBRE’s energy management systems help organizations make timely, informed decisions to achieve their energy goals.
Energy Management Training
CALIBRE’s Energy Management Training provides administrative and technical training for energy managers, senior officials, building operators, and others responsible for energy-efficient facility operation. In many cases, 25 percent or more of a facility’s utility bill is attributable to inefficient equipment and building operation procedures. We designed our training to help organizations identify and eliminate energy waste.
Energy Planning and Analysis
CALIBRE’s energy planning and analysis focuses on sustainable and economically viable options for reducing energy consumption at facilities. Our work includes energy consumption assessments; evaluation, identification, and recommendations for implementation options; and oversight for energy conservation projects.
Energy Security Assessment
CALIBRE works with our customers to redefine energy security driven by world events and current legislation and policies. CALIBRE helps develop comprehensive approaches to energy security that include alternative / renewable energy projects; new “net-zero” strategies for waste, energy, and water; integrated use of performance contracting and enhanced use leasing of government property; capital improvements and enhanced sustainment of critical energy infrastructure; development of micro-grids for critical facilities; and a smart grid to achieve the greatest reduction in energy usage.
Smart Grid Interoperability
Secure, accredited enterprise data systems are critical to effective implementation of actions that will reduce energy consumption to meet strategic goals. The use of proprietary communications, devices, and systems continues to limit competition, increase sustainment costs, and raise the complexity and risk of future projects requiring integration. Our open standards architecture, combined with our Energy Smart Grid Laboratory, allows secure integration with the internet and legacy smart grid infrastructure.
Sustainability Planning and Advisory Services
CALIBRE’s sustainability experts and planning tools help facility managers prepare long-term management plans for energy, water, greenhouse gas and other resources. Our tools and experts assist facility managers with prioritizing energy alternatives; we perform site-specific weighting of factors to optimize the outputs for each facility. CALIBRE identifies energy alternatives with the highest potential for achieving independence while weighing quantitative and non-quantitative factors such as cost, impact, compatibility with mission, and social acceptance.
