能源之星计划与商业大厦的能源效率.ppt

* Many opportunities exist for optimizing a building’s heating and cooling system efficiency. Load reductions achieved through other stages of the building upgrade process have likely made these opportunities more attractive than they were initially. When evaluating which heating and cooling upgrades to pursue, remember: ■ Use current loads to calculate the proper capacity for equipment. ■ Consider the interactions among all system components. ■ Consider replacing old inefficient equipment with new high-efficiency equipment. ■ Evaluate alternative strategies for meeting heating and cooling loads. ■ Establish a regular maintenance program for all heating and cooling equipment. Although heating and cooling improvements represent the final stage in the staged approach to building upgrades, they do not signal the end of the process. Building upgrades continue to provide the intended benefits throughout their useful life only through periodic recommissioning and further upgrades, as needed. An upgrade is not an endpoint but a step along a path of continuous improvement. * You can use resources in the Benchmarking Starter Kit to assist you with benchmarking your building. To review the process of benchmarking, students may watch “A Step-By-Step Guide to Benchmarking Using EPA’s Portfolio Manager” training video when benchmarking their commercial building for their Student Project. /ia/business/benchmarking_training/benchmarking.html Video length: 23 min 33 seconds * * * * * * This is the screen you’ll see each time you want to log in to Portfolio Manager. At the top of the page you’ll see news about any updates to the tool. At the bottom you can see some links. Some are for beginners and take you to additional learning tools, others you can use when you become more advanced, such as the Import Facility Data Link, which takes you to the Excel spreadsheet templates for uploading facility data. We will cover this in more detail later in the presentation. If you’