Case Studies
Putting innovative ideas into action.
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Haida Gwaii School District
Responsible for managing all schools in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, School District 50 required a method of benchmarking, monitoring and analyzing real-time energy trends to improve energy effciency and optimize electrical demand. In addition, the school district wanted to provide its facility managers with immediate alerts when heating systems did not operate as commissioned. To this end, Pulse™ energy management software was installed in several schools in the district in the fall of 2009. ... Read more »
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Government of British Columbia
The Government of British Columbia was faced with the challenge of accurately predicting the return on investment for energy conserving infrastructure upgrades across a large portfolio of existing buildings. Pulse™ software is helping the Government address this challenge by providing real-time monitoring and detailed energy analysis for a lighting pilot program which will inform decision making about lighting upgrades across government buildings throughout BC. ... Read more »
Monday, June 1st, 2009
Hartley Bay and Pulse™ Micro Smart Grid
The Village of Hartley Bay and Pulse Energy have installed one of the first complete Micro Smart Grids in North America. This intelligent Micro Smart Grid will enable a real-time demand response system to shed non-essential loads at peak times and avoid bringing multiple diesel generators online unnecessarily. ... Read more »
Friday, June 20th, 2008
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is one of the greenest campuses in North America. As part of the $35 million Ecotrek program, $6 million were spent on an Enterprise Energy Management (EEM) system and a sophisticated, campus-wide Building Automation System (BAS). The EEM system generates large amounts of data, but the volume and format of those data make them extremely difficult to use for building energy optimization. UBC needed a way to make their energy data actionable and meaningful to operations staff and the campus population. ... Read more »