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Uses and Benefits of Electric Submeters in the
School and Healthcare Facility Environment
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According to industry
estimates, today’s healthcare facility uses 2.7 times the energy of
an equivalent-size office building. 24/7 operation and other unique
needs make healthcare facilities ideal candidates for
submetering—for benchmarking energy performance and for measuring
and verifying compliance with facility energy management
initiatives.
Likewise, in the educational facility environment, controlling
bottom-line cost is key to maintaining current programs and keeping
tuition and other overhead expenses down. No longer assumed to be a
fixed cost, energy consumption and demand can be managed to help
mitigate other rising costs that may be more difficult to control.
With this in mind, energy monitoring offers a relatively easily
implemented, cost-effective means for conserving energy and saving
money.
As the data acquisition “front end” to the building management
system, submeters can help educational as well as healthcare
facilities identify savings opportunities that can help fund
additional energy conservation measures or electrical upgrades. This
white paper explores the various uses and benefits that submeters
bring to the institutional facility environment. To download the
rest of the story from E-Mon, click
here.
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