Integrated Energy Project Model
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Awardee:
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kW Engineering | ||
| Project Partners: | SolarNexus, Endependence (dba SaveEnergy 123) | ||
| Award Date: | March 11, 2010 | ||
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CSI RD&D Funding:
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$942,500 | ||
| Match Funding: | $250,000 | ||
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Start Date:
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April 2010 | ||
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End Date:
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April 2012 | ||
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Project Manager:
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Devan Johnson | ||
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510-834-6420 | ||
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johnson @ kw-engineering.com | ||
| Grant Manager: | Smita Gupta | ||
| 509-891-3189 | |||
| smita.gupta @ itron.com | |||
Summary
The internet contains copious amounts of information about how to save energy by implementing individual energy efficiency measures (EEMs) in homes and businesses. One can also easily find information about sizing and installing solar power systems to produce energy. However, there is a lack of useful tools for building owners and contractors to evaluate and implement comprehensive energy solutions, which presents a market barrier to increased adoption of both EEMs and solar power.
Building owners, solar contractors, and specialty service providers all need tools to collaborate on, evaluate, and implement integrated energy solutions. The team proposes to develop and test an Integrated Energy Project (IEP) Model that integrates the building energy analysis process (driven by either the consumer or a professional) with the quoting and implementation of energy efficiency and solar energy projects. The IEP Model introduces a common language to project stakeholder software applications; it provides a comprehensive, standardized definition of an EE/DR+PV project, as well as a way for stakeholders to communicate with each other about that project. This will simplify and streamline the process, reduce time and costs for both the consumer and contractors, produce a better ROI for both, and remove a key market barrier for the adoption of both EEMs and solar energy. The project team will describe the components required for such a model; document standard interchange formats required for communication between consumer-facing and vendor-facing systems; implement a test version of the model; identify regions to target test consumer users; identify contractors to participate in the test version; conduct a test implementation of the model; and document the results in a final report.
The team members propose to leverage their existing software products and expertise to define and test an IEP Model implementation and to document the results. The resulting deliverables, including software programming interfaces and data structures, will enable any industry solution provider to integrate its applications with other IEP-compliant applications in a standard way. For example, all consumer energy efficiency audit tools on the market would be able to integrate freely with other applications that also support the IEP Model, such as contractor bidding or project management tools. The resulting eco-system will streamline consumer implementation of EE/DR+PV projects.
Status
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April 2, 2010 |
Project started |
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June 24, 2010 |
First webinar to seek stakeholder interest and input |
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Dec 2010 |
First draft of the IEP model released for key stakeholder comments. |
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Feb 2011 |
First public draft of data model.
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Project Documents/Website Links
- iepmodel.net - Project website
- Stakeholder webinar (June 24, 2010) recording & presentation PDF
- SaveEnergy123 - Beta site
- Project presentation PDF (1.07 MB)
