We're designing a food processing plant that will have systems in place to monitor the overall loads of the entire building. The drives read the information from all MCCs and determine the overall electrical consumption of our process lines, the HVAC, the office areas and, if approved by the client, overall lighting system. However, this system does not break down the consumption of each individual equipment or individual room and from what I see in the template provided in this website for "Option D Whole Building Approach" I'm concerned that we may not fully comply with the credit. Adding individual submeters to all equipment on an industrial plant would increase the budget significantly.
Any thoughts applicable to the exclusive nature of our proect?
Marcus Sheffer
LEED Fellow7group / Energy Opportunities
LEEDuser Expert
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October 14, 2010 - 12:07 pm
You do not need to measure by individual room or piece of equipment. You simply need to be be able to measure in aggregate by energy end uses (i.e. lighting, plug loads, fans, etc.) that correspond with the energy modeling results. So measuring by area is typically not very useful as this adds disparate loads together which is not typically how the spaces are modeled. Your measurement plan seems to mix the two (areas and end uses) which will likley not enable the proper calibration of the modeling results.