Low Cost Measures

Power Factor: A power factor can be surcharged when it drops below 95 KVAR for large customers. Several measures are available to normalize voltage currents to extend equipment life and reduce power factor surcharges.

Advanced Heating Controls: Many buildings in NYC have no controls to measure or allocate heat to specific floors. Advanced Heating controls provide a greater distribution of heat to appropriate floors.

Power Management Plans: Power management programs identify appropriate plug loads which may be minimized for significant savings.

Space Partitioning: Building space may be maximized to lower energy costs, through such measures as allocating guests to top floors in the winter season, delivering winter heat or summer coolness only as necessary or several other partitioning ideas.

Demand and Response: Demand and Response may be integrated with a battery storage or an emergency generator for saving demand charges. In addition, funds received from utility are available whether or not demand and response events are requested.

Peak Shaving: Peak shaving decreases energy consumption during peak demand charge times. Various techniques are available to decrease demand charges and energy costs. The utility may monitor demand consumption to determine if a demand response event may be necessary. Other strategies are available to minimize peak demand charges.