“Time-of-Use” (TOU) Electricity Rates Most of the electricity utilities in North America use the “Time-of-Use” (TOU) rate schedules for commercial and industrial sectors. In the...
The Water-Energy Nexus considers the interrelationship between water and energy. E.g. Power plants consume water for cooling systems, and Water plants consume power for treatment...
A Variable Air Volume (VAV) system is one of the most common HVAC systems used in buildings. The basic concept is that the volume of the air entering the thermal zone changes as...
Next up in our 'Meet the Team' series, we sat down for a quick Q&A with Birajan Bandhari, a Senior Building Performance Engineer, based in California, to share his experience...
This technical article compares the predicted energy consumption of different cooling tower control strategies when the building cooling load is known, and the chiller(s) design...
Solar Water Heating systems are commonly used to (pre)heat water, using solar energy for the purposes of reducing the building’s heating loads, energy, costs and carbon emissions....