Friday, July 7, 2017

Fully Using Commercial Building Controls Cuts Energy Use 29 Percent

PNNL researcher Srinivas Katipamula examining a control box for a commercial building's heating and cooling system. Credit: Andrea Starr / PNNL

Expensive startup costs are often cited as a reason building owners and operators don’t install energy saving technology, like building controls and automation, although in general they eventually pay for themselves. As such, lowering initial costs and increasing savings to shrink this payback time is often the focus of reducing energy use.



from EC Mag - Power and Integrated Building Systems Magazine http://www.ecmag.com/section/green-building/fully-using-commercial-building-controls-cuts-energy-use-29-percent

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