Addressing the challenge of energy efficiency through ICT

Presented by

Firas Obeido CEOSatchNet Electronic SystemsAmman - Jordan

Certified Energy ManagerLonMark Certified Professional

Important FactsUnder the Kyoto Protocol overall reduction for CO2 emissions needs to fall by 20% by 2020.Up to 50% of CO2 emissions related to residential and commercial buildings is from electricity consumption.If newly constructed buildings perform exactly as existing buildings the result by 2020 will be an increase in electricity consumption of 22%.

Important FactsIn order to reach a fall in consumption of 20% by 2020 the following has to happen:1- All new buildings constructed to consume 50% less energy 2- 1 in 10 existing buildings to reduce consumption by 30% each year

The ability to meet targets by simply persuading people to act differently or deploy new energy saving or energy efficient technologies is unlikely to succeed.

Important ConceptsPower is nothing without control.If you cant measure it, you cant control it.If you cant control it, you cant manage it.Management & Control based on continuous and real time measurement is the KEY to energy Efficiency.Priority ONE should be for energy saving. It will cost a lot less to invest in saving energy rather than investing in renewable energy.

Important DefinitionsFault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD): Is an analytics tool that recognizes when a problem has occurred or is likely to occur and pinpoints one or more root causes of the problem so that corrective action can be taken

Important DefinitionsAutomated Demand Response (ADR): The ADR actively initiates control actions that minimize energy use & costs over a prescribed time horizon based on dynamic pricing or Peak loads that might lead to shutdowns to ensure occupant comfort, productivity, and safety.

Important DefinitionsAutomated Measurement & Verification (M&V): Is a set of activities that demonstrate to a customer that a project implementing energy efficiency programs is working as intended and generating agreed-upon savings. by comparing the energy use before and after implementation of energy conservation measures using the same baseline.

Important DefinitionsEnergy Information Management: Is the useful visualization of information resulting from data collection, mining and other analytics.

Important DefinitionsHighPerformance buildings: are designed and built tominimize energy usage and environmental impacts, while maximizing comfort, health, and safety

Smart Buildings: Leverage technology to provide enhanced performance and are connected and responsive to the smart power grid,whichis emerging as information technologyis applied to the infrastructure that delivers our electricity.

Important DefinitionsEnergy Information Management: Is the useful visualization of information resulting from data collection, mining and other analytics.

Smart Grids & Smart BuildingsTruly smart buildings will leverage knowledge that resides outside its walls.Introducing programs that allow real-time adjustment of demand in addition to supply when wholesale prices are high or when grid reliability is in question or high demand is expected.Two-way communication between the Grid & the Building where software conversation actually makes the Grid & the Building talk to each other.

Smart Grids & Smart Buildings

Smart Infrastructure: ComponentsSmart BuildingsSmart MetersTwo-Way Communication System between the Grid & the Building where software conversation actually makes the Grid & the Building talk to each other.

How can ICT HelpThe ICT sector can boost energy efficiency and enable emission reductions in a number of ways: Standardize Monitor Account Rethink Transform

ICT: Standarise Standarise: ICT can provide information in standard forms on energy consumption and emissions, across sectors

ICT: Monitor Monitor: ICT can incorporate monitoring information into the design and control for energy use

ICT: Account Account: ICT can provide the capabilities and platforms to improve accountability of energy and carbon.

ICT: Rethink Rethink: ICT can offer innovations that capture energy efficiency opportunities across buildings, homes , transport, power, manufacturing and other infrastructure and provide alternatives to current ways of operating, learning, living, working and travelling

ICT: Transform Transform: ICT can apply smart and integrated approaches to energy management of systems and processes, including benefits from both automation and behavior change and develop alternatives to high carbon activities, across all sectors of the economy.

Sub-Metering: Electricity Breakdown

Intelligent Energy Management Triangle

IT Convergence & High Performance Building

Managing Sustainable GoalsEnergy efficiency measures contribute to an organizations sustainability goals, such as tracking and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But if the data is trapped within the building management system, executive level decision-makers may not find it.

Managing Sustainable GoalsOne result of exposing data to the executive levels is a web-based dashboard display that offers a visual snapshot of which facilities are experiencing high energy usage.

Visualization

VisualizationExecutives in charge of sustainability and carbon footprint management are now able to see the big picture of their organization, no matter how many buildings or geographic locations are involved. When information is available quickly and can be accessed anywhere, managers are able to make better decisions that have an immediate impact on profitability.

Visualization

Visualization

Benchmarking

Benchmarking

Access to InformationThe underlying principle that drives the connections between smart technology, sustainability, and efficiency is the access to better information that enables more effective decision making, which in turn results in more efficient operations and fewer resource requirements.

Smart Energy Efficiency Initiative (Program)

Four steps to a smarter program:-

1- Surveillance: The ability to collect sufficient data in real time or near real time. It is referred to as instrumented because it depends upon the right infrastructure and instrumentation to gather and collect the data.

Smart Energy Efficiency Initiative (Program)2- Transformation: The need to begin the transformation of that source data into useful information with interconnected devices and software tools that enable multidirectional communications. We call this step interconnected because it represents the spoke and hub network of consumption devices and centralized information systems that gather and assess the various data sources.

Smart Energy Efficiency Initiative (Program)3- Intelligence: The progression from information to action through the use of advanced analytics, intelligent controls, and automatic event detection and handling as well as Fault Detection & Diagnostic (FDD). This is the point at which performance optimization becomes the defining program principle.

Smart Energy Efficiency Initiative (Program)4- Innovation: The highest level of a smarter initiative is the application of innovative business solutions, which transform the way we operate and behave through the application of new technologies, new processes, and virtual teams.

Smart Energy Efficiency Initiative (Program)Based on the mentioned four steps, a control framework can be established based on advanced data analysis and improved decision making on matters such as peak load management, power factor corrections, and load shedding. This framework recognizes a rapid return on investment.

Smart Energy Efficiency Initiative (Program)In fact, if done well, its a transformational journey that affects and improves an organizations processes, policies, governance, and business model.

Energy Information Systems (EIS)

Energy Information Systems (EIS)

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Thank you!

Firas.obeido@satchnet.com

*******Connecting to Smart GridsTruly smart buildings will leverage knowledge that resides outside its walls and windows. Thesmart grid is an ideal place to start. Electric utilities have been introducing programs that allowreal-time adjustment of demand in addition to supply when wholesale prices are high or whengrid reliability is jeopardized.For example, a software conversation between the smart grid and a smart building might gosomething like thisGrid: Predictions are for increased temperatures tomorrow. Were expecting high demandand need your help. Of course, well reward you for cooperating.User: Okay, is the incentive the same as last time?Grid: Yes. Well pay you $0.50 for every kilowatt-hour drop from your average electricityusage.User: Great! We can offer to reduce our load by 100 kilowatts tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.by activating demand-reduction mode.Grid: Your offer has been accepted. Hate to cut you short, but another bid is coming in.Heres another possible conversation between these two smart systemsGrid: Here are the hourly electricity prices for the next 48 hours.User: Thanks. Since your noon to 2 p.m. rate today is a little steep, were going to tryshedding some load at that time by using the ice we produced last night to cool thebuilding.Grid: Okay. Thanks for the advance notice. This will lower costs for everyone.User: Hate to cut you short, but weve got to start planning right away.Dialogues like this between intelligent systems often require humans to confirm the decisions,but at least the technology gets the discussion started to make taking action easier forbuilding operators. Thats quite a leap from just a few years ago

*Connecting to Smart GridsTruly smart buildings will leverage knowledge that resides outside its walls and windows. Thesmart grid is an ideal place to start. Electric utilities have been introducing programs that allowreal-time adjustment of demand in addition to supply when wholesale prices are high or whengrid reliability is jeopardized.For example, a software conversation between the smart grid and a smart building might gosomething like thisGrid: Predictions are for increased temperatures tomorrow. Were expecting high demandand need your help. Of course, well reward you for cooperating.User: Okay, is the incentive the same as last time?Grid: Yes. Well pay you $0.50 for every kilowatt-hour drop from your average electricityusage.User: Great! We can offer to reduce our load by 100 kilowatts tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.by activating demand-reduction mode.Grid: Your offer has been accepted. Hate to cut you short, but another bid is coming in.Heres another possible conversation between these two smart systemsGrid: Here are the hourly electricity prices for the next 48 hours.User: Thanks. Since your noon to 2 p.m. rate today is a little steep, were going to tryshedding some load at that time by using the ice we produced last night to cool thebuilding.Grid: Okay. Thanks for the advance notice. This will lower costs for everyone.User: Hate to cut you short, but weve got to start planning right away.Dialogues like this between intelligent systems often require humans to confirm the decisions,but at least the technology gets the discussion started to make taking action easier forbuilding operators. Thats quite a leap from just a few years ago

*Connecting to Smart GridsTruly smart buildings will leverage knowledge that resides outside its walls and windows. Thesmart grid is an ideal place to start. Electric utilities have been introducing programs that allowreal-time adjustment of demand in addition to supply when wholesale prices are high or whengrid reliability is jeopardized.For example, a software conversation between the smart grid and a smart building might gosomething like thisGrid: Predictions are for increased temperatures tomorrow. Were expecting high demandand need your help. Of course, well reward you for cooperating.User: Okay, is the incentive the same as last time?Grid: Yes. Well pay you $0.50 for every kilowatt-hour drop from your average electricityusage.User: Great! We can offer to reduce our load by 100 kilowatts tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.by activating demand-reduction mode.Grid: Your offer has been accepted. Hate to cut you short, but another bid is coming in.Heres another possible conversation between these two smart systemsGrid: Here are the hourly electricity prices for the next 48 hours.User: Thanks. Since your noon to 2 p.m. rate today is a little steep, were going to tryshedding some load at that time by using the ice we produced last night to cool thebuilding.Grid: Okay. Thanks for the advance notice. This will lower costs for everyone.User: Hate to cut you short, but weve got to start planning right away.Dialogues like this between intelligent systems often require humans to confirm the decisions,but at least the technology gets the discussion started to make taking action easier forbuilding operators. Thats quite a leap from just a few years ago

**Connecting to Smart GridsTruly smart buildings will leverage knowledge that resides outside its walls and windows. Thesmart grid is an ideal place to start. Electric utilities have been introducing programs that allowreal-time adjustment of demand in addition to supply when wholesale prices are high or whengrid reliability is jeopardized.For example, a software conversation between the smart grid and a smart building might gosomething like thisGrid: Predictions are for increased temperatures tomorrow. Were expecting high demandand need your help. Of course, well reward you for cooperating.User: Okay, is the incentive the same as last time?Grid: Yes. Well pay you $0.50 for every kilowatt-hour drop from your average electricityusage.User: Great! We can offer to reduce our load by 100 kilowatts tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.by activating demand-reduction mode.Grid: Your offer has been accepted. Hate to cut you short, but another bid is coming in.Heres another possible conversation between these two smart systemsGrid: Here are the hourly electricity prices for the next 48 hours.User: Thanks. Since your noon to 2 p.m. rate today is a little steep, were going to tryshedding some load at that time by using the ice we produced last night to cool thebuilding.Grid: Okay. Thanks for the advance notice. This will lower costs for everyone.User: Hate to cut you short, but weve got to start planning right away.Dialogues like this between intelligent systems often require humans to confirm the decisions,but at least the technology gets the discussion started to make taking action easier forbuilding operators. Thats quite a leap from just a few years ago

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