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Emerging Technologies and Business Practices Stories

Emerging Technologies and Business Practices Stories. September 2008. Approach. Contract with WSU Energy Extension Review literature, programs, organizations Develop list of measures & practices with key characteristics 250 to 300 measures & practices considered .. so far. ACEEE BC Hydro

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Emerging Technologies and Business Practices Stories

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  1. Emerging Technologies and Business Practices Stories September 2008

  2. Approach • Contract with WSU Energy Extension • Review literature, programs, organizations • Develop list of measures & practices with key characteristics • 250 to 300 measures & practices considered .. so far

  3. ACEEE BC Hydro BPA California Lighting Technolgy Center E Source ECOS Consulting Edison Electric Institute Emerging Technology Coodinating Council Federal Energy Management Program National Labs Natural Resources Canada Puget Sound Energy Seattle City Light Sacremento Municipal Utility District UC Davis U.S. Dept of Energy WSU Energy Program Washington Technolgy Center Organization Consulted

  4. Selection Criteria • Significant savings likely within 15 years • Advanced stages of development • Commercially available or • Ready for commercialization • Not yet in wide use in PNW • Little negative impact on the service provided • Not fully considered in 5th Power Plan

  5. Major Findings So Far • No Silver Bullets • Many Incremental Improvements • Proliferation of Niche Applications • Development of Business Practices for Energy Management • Some Potential “Breakthrough” Technologies Warrant RD&D Now

  6. Findings in Three Categories Improvements to Existing Technology. Gains in cost, efficacy, applicability or measure life. Improved Tech Changes to Design & Business Practices: Systematic business strategies that improve measure applicability, penetration and persistence … Design & Operations New & Improved Practices New Products & Technology. Breakthrough technologies not previously considered viable. Includes both direct and enabling technologies & products. New Tech

  7. A Sampling of New Technologies & Business Practices • Long-life Fluorescent Lighting • Low-Lift Cooling • Improved Business Practices • OLEDs – Organic Light Emitting Diode • Server Virtualization • Electron Stimulated Luminescence

  8. Long-life Fluorescent Lighting • Key to long life: T5s with program-start ballasts • Philips and Sylvania lamps: 46,000 hours • Kumho Electric: 100,000 hrs! • Work well with occupancy sensors

  9. Why do we care? • Lower implementation and maintenance costs • Now competes with SSLs for longevity • Less embodied energy

  10. Downsides of LED Lighting for General Service Lighting • “100,000 hours” is only for colored lights • “White” lights are still not consistent color • Currently very expensive • Difficult to achieve even light distribution

  11. Low-Lift Cooling • 1 of 5 “Technology Option Sets” to be developed by the DOE net Zero Energy Buildings program by 2010 • A package of five technologies that work together as a system • According to PNNL models: save 30-74% of cooling in new buildings • BPA to be doing field trials

  12. Low-Lift Cooling Option Set • Peak-load shifting by thermal energy storage • Dedicated outdoor air supply with enthalpy heat recovery from exhaust air • Radiant heating/cooling system: panels or floor • Low-lift vapor compression cooling equipment • Advanced controls at equipment and system (supervisory) levels

  13. Business Practices • Not Technologies • Strategies that: • Create new savings due to synergies • Allow higher penetration of measures • Improve persistence of measures • Significant new conservation potential

  14. Improved Strategies & PracticesA Sampling • Integrated Building Design • Energy Management Business Practices • Analyzing how corporate decisions get made • Continuous Energy Improvement, Envinta 1 to 5, Enterprise Energy Management • Data Center Optimization • Building Commissioning Practices • Monitoring-Based Commissioning

  15. Organic LEDs • Exciting potential: Can light up entire ceiling or clothes • Projected to be more efficacious than fluorescent lamps • In screens, more efficient and much more contrast than LCD • For use in screens for now. Some lighting products in 3-4 years.

  16. Electron Stimulated Luminescence (ESL™) • Same efficiency, life, and cost as CFLs • No mercury • CRI of 95+ • Instant-on • Easily dimmable • Can use standard glass bulbs • Reflector bulbs available in 2009 • More info: www.vu1.com

  17. Server Virtualization • Can use one “box” as several “servers” • Can cut computing energy substantially (over 50%) • Lower equipment costs • Greatly decreases cooling loads • How do we treat this?

  18. End

  19. Outdoor Lighting

  20. Refrigerated Display Case • Replaces T-12 & T-8 fluorescent • Long hours of operation per year (18 to 24 hours/day) • Cool ambient application & potentially long life • Saves refrigeration energy too • Savings multiplier 1.3 to 1.7 • With occupancy sensors – more savings

  21. Interior Downlights- Residential

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