Energy Audits Conservation Design and LEED Neighborhood Development

Energy Audits inspect and analyze energy usage and flows in a building to reduce the amount of energy input into the system without negatively affecting output. Building technologies and advanced real-time energy smart meters allow business and residential energy users to verify consumption in workplaces and homes. Passive Solar Buildings take advantage of the local climate with window placement and glazing, thermal mass, insulation and shading. Walls, floors and windows are designed and located to collect, store and distribute energy without the use of mechanical and electric devices.

Conservation and efficiency are energy reduction techniques; conservation implies sufficiency and is the key to sustainability as it lowers energy costs by reducing resource depletion.

Smart Location Encourages Transport Alternatives Historic Preservation while Discouraging Sprawl

Urban and Suburban Transport developed with inexpensive fossil fuels. Recent zoning practices range from greater urban density to incorporation of walking and bicycling designs that, coupled with lifestyle changes like telecommuting, help reduce transport energy consumption.

Sustainable Architecture is the Environmental Impact of Buildings and Materials Energy and Space Usage

Environmental Design refers to the applied arts and sciences that deal with the human environment in the fields of architecture, geography, interior design, landscape architecture and urban planning. It also includes interdisciplinary subjects like lighting design and historical preservation.

A Design Construction Operation and Maintenance Rating System

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED is a green building certification program developed by the US Green Building Council to assist building owners and managers to use resources efficiently.

LEED for Neighborhood Development is a rating system that certifies local development green buildings and integrates a project’s green building and infrastructure practices. The credits relate to energy efficiency, reduced water use, building reuse, recycled materials, and heat island reduction.

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Green Leases for Properties and Communities

Green leases also known as aligned, high performance, or energy efficient leases align the financial and energy incentives of building owners and tenants so they can work together to save money, conserve resources, and ensure the efficient operation of buildings. A green lease is a lease of space in a green building that is designed, constructed and operated to achieve sustainability, water efficiency, energy savings and indoor environment quality.
Building Leases spell out how energy costs are divided between tenants and owners. Often, these leases are not structured in a way that promotes energy savings. Tenants have no incentive to save energy in their leased premises because energy costs are based on tenant square footage. Building owners have no incentive to invest in energy efficiency because the operating expenses are passed onto tenants.
Green Leases promote energy efficiency by creating lease structures which equitably align the costs and benefits of efficiency investments between building owners and tenants.

​​ A Landlord Tenant Energy Partnership

The Landlord Tenant Energy Partnership is led by the Institute for Market Transformation with the Retails Industry Leaders Association and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Participants have access to guidance in implementing energy efficiency steps, lease negotiations and property operations.

An Energy Savings Checklist replace inefficient incandescent bulbs with CFL bulbs; install and correctly set a programmable thermostat; switch out your showerhead for an efficient WaterSense model; use a power strip for electronics and appliances; set the refrigerator to 36°F - 40°F and the freezer to 0°F - 5°F. use shades and insulated drapes to block out the sun in the summer and reduce heat loss in winter.

Energy Management nearly all renters pay their own energy bills but have little say over the efficiency and quality of the appliances and windows in their home. 

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Integrated Water Systems in Small Towns and Rural Communities

Sustainable Solutions with Solar Water Pumps

By 2030 the world will need to produce 50 percent more for food and energy and 30 percent more fresh water. Solar pumps are a reliable technology which can compete with conventional pump technologies such as diesel pumping. Large amounts of energy are used in the entire water cycle.

Water Pumps Play a Major Role in all Water and Waste Water Processes

Smart Water Technology remote monitoring and control of water pipes and plants help reduce water distribution losses, improve smart energy use for water management and reduce maintenance costs.

Solar Pumps do not require fuel, are positioned close to demand, hence no distribution losses, require little maintenance, are air pollution free and do not require batteries as energy is stored in high level storage tank.

Rural Water Supplies hand-pumps are an efficient way to supply small communities up to 300 people; motorized pumps are needed to supply larger communities with water requirements above 24 m3/hour.

Solar Pumps Operate in Deep Wells Rivers and Lakes Water is Stored in Tanks or Injected Pipes

Comparing Diesel and Solar PV systems have higher initial costs whereas diesel pumps are very uneconomical at low flow rates; PV pumps are more economical even at higher pumping heads and larger volumes - > 8000 m3/day. With a 20% diesel price increase, the range increases to over 100kWp pumping power. PV module costs have decreased in the last several years.

ESCo is an energy and water service/savings company that provides design, implementation and financing of energy/water saving projects, retrofitting, conservation, infrastructure outsourcing, power generation and supply, as well as risk management.

Solar Inverters Pump Applications inverters provide continuous water pumping during the day and feature maximum energy efficiency and top water flow rate in all solar conditions. A manual switch can be connected to an AC three-phase supply with a backup diesel pump for night service, as required.

With 140GW Installed World-wide Pumped Storage Hydro Accounts for 99% of World’s Storage

Local Development solar water pumps can succeed in small towns and rural communities that have access to local system integrators and manufacturers, technical training capabilities, software tools for proper dimensioning and simulations, complete PV modules, inverters and pump kits as well as local companies partnerships for system assembly, after sales support, spare parts availability and web based remote monitoring and assistance.

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