Project SummaryCompared to all commercial buildings types, food service has the highest energy intensity (energy consumed per square footage), and restaurants consume three times more energy per square foot compared to the average commercial building. Water heating and cooling...

This project will assess the performance of different energy efficient technologies such as DC/solid state lighting, high efficiency HVAC, upgraded insulation, and controls for portable classrooms, a market that is currently untapped. An existing classroom will be retrofitted with all EE...

Project SummaryThis project examines the site net energy consumption of a sample of units in the West Village community at the University of California Davis (UC Davis). The three primary goals are as follows:Study energy consumption and production in order to determine if this West Village sample...

Solar Jack, an energy management system for rod beam pumps, is comprised of three components: a VFD, a regnerative component and a solar array.  To assess the energy savings potential of Solar Jack, it was installed on three wells at three different customer...

This project will field test recently developed tools and associated workflows to determine the viability and efficacy of rapid building physics based building energy models for use in energy efficiency measure identification and energy use...

This paper summarizes current CAISO telemetry requirements and analyzes existing technologies that might be able to meet those requirements in a manner that can be scalable for Proxy Demand Resources to participate in the wholesale market. The paper offers various solution architechtures and...

This project was a field assessment of indirect evaporative cooling for ventilation air for a mall in Fairfield, CA in which a new RTU was retrofitted with a direct evaporative pre-cooler at the condenser inlet, and a water to air heat exchanger at the ventilation air inlet. This study was...

The purpose of this project was to determine whether heat pump clothes dryers offer non-energy benefits—specifically, reduced clothing wear and tear—that could help consumer adoption. Although the project did not conclusively find that heat pump clothes dryers cause less wear than...

- Updated August 2016 to include additional market data and 3rd party lab testing -In support of California’s strategic plan to accelerate the penetration of energy efficiency technologies, AESC executed a study of a new fan motor technology with funding, guidance, and...

The objective of this pilot was to demonstrate the use of a wide-area wireless control messaging network as a platform for dispatching demand across a utility area. The advantage of such a system is that it can cost effectively and reliable reach devices that are typically not networked, such as...