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Energy represents the single largest controllable operating expense for office buildings, typically a third of variable expenses. The commercial real estate industry (alone) spends approximately $24 billion annually on energy and contributes 18% of US carbon dioxide emissions. 1

Energy efficiency solutions must create better and more predictable financial results for you.

Three key areas for these benefits to be realized include annual energy savings, operational savings and energy cost predictability.

Energy Savings

Reducing the amount of energy used is the first and most important step in a comprehensive energy solution. The HelioEMS team will work with you to conduct an extensive audit and design an energy plan to reduce the amount of energy consumed at your facility or multiple facility sites.

Once the energy efficiency study and systems implementation plan has accomplished energy goals in one site specific location, modeling of that plan across your portfolio of sites can be utilized to accomplish even greater cost efficiencies.

Operations and Facility Management Savings

Operations and facility management costs are lowered when older equipment and systems are replaced with new state-of-the-art energy efficient equipment.

New, efficient systems perform at peak efficiency. Thus they will incur little or no repair and operational costs. Lower operational costs assist you in the capitalization of new projects by freeing up sourcing funds.

Once all systems are engineered for maximum energy utilization, efficiency and load monitoring and control are important tools to ensure energy consumption is being maintained at optimum levels.

Your bottom line does not absorb system management costs. We maintain, monitor and administer your energy system alleviating manpower, lost time and expense.

Establishing Predictable Energy Costs

Maintaining predictable energy costs within a volatile energy market is a vital stabilizing strategy. HelioEMS offers you a range of programs to offset rapidly rising fossil fuel based energy costs and peak load tiered expenses. Programs engineered to create stable energy costs include performance contract programs and financing with Power Purchase Agreements.

Performance contract programs are available for users who install new high performance equipment or retrofit existing equipment with high performance units and quantify energy reduction. Quantification can be based on utility calculations, on known performance factors or on a comprehensive measurement and verification program spanning over a year. These performance contract programs can be beneficial in offsetting capital costs of major equipment that is no longer economical to operate.

Tariff Schedule Optimization

Utility bills are notoriously complicated. Multiple rate schedules, Time-of-Use charges, peak time, off peak, seasonally adjusted, peak demand charges, non-coincident demand charges and a never ending list of add on fees make for a bill that is nearly impossible to understand.

Yet, understanding can lead to dramatically lower energy costs. Learning how and when energy is used allows you to minimize charges, take advantage of rebate programs and potentially identify a different tariff schedule you can use to lower costs. The tariff schedule review is a key part of a HelioEMS Energy Audit.

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1. BOMA, Building Owners and Managers Association