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Datotel provides outsourced data center services and needs to manage energy use to improve margins and stay competitive. The data center has thousands of separate devices and loads. Technology used includes CA ecoMeter from CA Technologies. Business case based on timely and correct billing of customer, better insight into system performance for energy reduction, and [...] Read more »
The University of Connecticut has been using submetering as part of its comprehensive energy management system for years. Electric, water and steam are submetered across 75 percent of campus buildings. The technology uses includes meters from Schneider Electric, Sensus, Neptune, among others. Square D products are used and the data are communicated through the Schneider [...] Read more »
A large industrial plant needed to reduce energy costs and to better allocate energy costs across cost centers. The traditional method of relying on 30-60 day-old, aggregated utility bills was not timely or granular enough. The solution was to use 400 submeters and energy management software. The company uses Diehl meters, Rockwell products and Invensys/Wonderware [...] Read more »
Retailers operate on small margins and rising energy costs really puts pressure on margins. To better track and manage corporate energy, a national retail chain with hundreds of stores added a submeter to the main electricity meter at each of its stories. The major loads at each store are lighting, display lighting, and HVAC. The [...] Read more »
