Energy Conservation:Provides control system evaluation, modification and programming to effect large scale energy conservation in commercial and industrial facilities in accordance with OSHA and ASHRAE standards. Provides whole system retro-commissioning and energy auditing. Familiar with nearly all direct digital and pneumatic control systems and programming, including Control Systems International, Johnson Controls, Andover, Alerton, Honeywell, Seimens, Invensys, and others. Industrial process control and measurement experience and practical application expertise, including energy and process metering, PLC Control and networking.
Performance Contracting: Perform financial analysis of performance contracts, pro forma, during performance, and forensically. Provided detailed engineering analysis, including bin hour analysis, specialty heat transfer and steam calculations for performance contracts. Provided forensic engineering analysis for performance contract, and performance contractors. Provide project management services to Fortune 50 companies, acting as owner’s representatives and coordinating subcontractors. Performance contracts and energy projects sold or managed by the principals of ACES-Energy currently generate annual energy cost avoidance in excess of $20 million dollars, or more than 400,000 barrels of oil annually. Principals have personally performed detailed energy audits for over 200 commercial facilities, and 100 industrial facilities.
Training: Provide energy conservation training on a standard and custom basis for building operating personnel and building engineering teams.
Systems Integration: Executed systems integration and systems integration engineering for fortune 50 companies using Microsoft tools, custom integration software tools, and network based (inter and intra) systems for integrating multiple buildings, control systems, and generations into a single operator system. Utilized BACnet, LONworks, and other open protocol systems to integrate building controls into unified control systems.
Engineering Services:ACES-Energy provides a range of Energy Engineering services, to facilitate in house implementation of all types of energy and operating cost reducing projects, from simple ventilation projects to sophisticated interactive projects including thermal energy storage, co-generation and fuel switching projects.
Energy Survey Assistance: Typically ACES-Energy provides energy survey assistance to customers who have already taken advantage of in house training and have a reasonable well-developed team of energy professionals. This step is often taken to help fine tune the skill set of in house staff. While your staff is gaining a valuable hands on learning experience, conservation opportunities are identified and quantified by using high quality instrumentation and measuring tools. Specific financial evaluation tools for energy conservation projects are used to help the facility operating team apply appropriate metrics and discounting to the costs, cost avoidance, and depreciation associated with multi year projects.
Energy Engineering: Energy Engineering is performed by ACES-Energy to aid in the final definition of a menu of Energy Conservation Opportunities within a facility. These services can be provided to supplement in house capabilities, or be a fully independent third party to validate engineering from in house or other sources. Energy Engineering services typically include full cost avoidance calculations using bin or degree day methodology, statistical correlation of energy consumption to production, or occupancy, and sensitivity analysis of specific projects to energy cost volatility, and exogenous variables. Schematic drawings can be furnished as a component of the Energy Engineering Service.
Energy Management System / Utility Monitoring Systems / Real Time Metering: ACES-Energy personnel are experienced in the hardware and software of EEMS (Enterprise Energy Management Systems) EMS, UMS, and metering technologies including experience in commercial and industrial control systems, Graphic User Interfaces, SCADA software, WEB Access, as well as communication media and software technology available. ACES-Energy offers assistance in product evaluation, applications, and project specification. Control projects may be as simple as control system reprogramming to provide greater comfort, energy conservation or a safer building environment; or as complex as multi site web enabled real time metering through system integration.
System integration and control system enhancements: Disparate control systems may be connected using state of the art Microsoft compatible tools. Using these tools provides avenues to expand direct digital control systems using BACnet, LONworks or a variety of other protocols and programming means. Multi system integration engineering is available to connect multiple control systems to allow interoperability, thus reducing programming and expansion costs while reusing existing control hardware and networks. True vendor independence can be achieved through the use of cost effective Graphic User Interface tools and Microsoft integration products.
Data Logging and Analysis: ACES-Energy maintains a complete inventory of high grade data loggers to measure the long term performance of standard energy consuming processes such as HVAC equipment, compressed air systems, boiler and steam systems, chiller, and chilled water systems, as well as electrical loads. Data loggers provide a level of accuracy that single point measurement simply cannot provide. The long-term collection of data provides a higher level of accuracy, and therefore a more complete picture of energy projects, whether it be the preliminary data gathering required to assess energy conservation opportunity, or the post implementation verification phase to evaluate the success of implemented projects.
Contract Reviews: ACES-Energy is not an implementation contractor. We are a technical resource for facility owners and managers who wish to perform energy conservation projects in house, or with outside contractors. In the case of large outsourced contracts, particularly in the area of performance contracting, we will provide contract review assistance, not as legal counsel, but as an unbiased, experienced energy team with a practical perspective of what works and what doesn’t. By reviewing contracts before signing, with a focus on feasibility and realistic expectations, we can help to avoid common pitfalls and produce a successful project. The objective is to reduce costs – not end up litigating an unsound contract.
Forensic Contract and Project Reviews: ACES-Energy reviews projects from an unbiased perspective, to either remediate failed performance contracts or act as a technical resource for the owner in the case of nonperforming or underperforming energy or resource conservation projects. In most cases, specifics of engineering deficiencies, and or contract deficiencies can be identified and addressed to the satisfaction of all parties. In the cases of gross underperformance, quantification of the magnitude of the underperformance can assist in the resolution of the dispute.
Performance Contracting: Perform financial analysis of performance contracts, pro forma, during performance, and forensically. Provided detailed engineering analysis, including bin hour analysis, specialty heat transfer and steam calculations for performance contracts. Provided forensic engineering analysis for performance contract, and performance contractors. Provide project management services to Fortune 50 companies, acting as owner’s representatives and coordinating subcontractors. Performance contracts and energy projects sold or managed by the principals of ACES-Energy currently generate annual energy cost avoidance in excess of $20 million dollars, or more than 400,000 barrels of oil annually. Principals have personally performed detailed energy audits for over 200 commercial facilities, and 100 industrial facilities.
Training: Provide energy conservation training on a standard and custom basis for building operating personnel and building engineering teams.
Systems Integration: Executed systems integration and systems integration engineering for fortune 50 companies using Microsoft tools, custom integration software tools, and network based (inter and intra) systems for integrating multiple buildings, control systems, and generations into a single operator system. Utilized BACnet, LONworks, and other open protocol systems to integrate building controls into unified control systems.
Engineering Services:ACES-Energy provides a range of Energy Engineering services, to facilitate in house implementation of all types of energy and operating cost reducing projects, from simple ventilation projects to sophisticated interactive projects including thermal energy storage, co-generation and fuel switching projects.
Energy Survey Assistance: Typically ACES-Energy provides energy survey assistance to customers who have already taken advantage of in house training and have a reasonable well-developed team of energy professionals. This step is often taken to help fine tune the skill set of in house staff. While your staff is gaining a valuable hands on learning experience, conservation opportunities are identified and quantified by using high quality instrumentation and measuring tools. Specific financial evaluation tools for energy conservation projects are used to help the facility operating team apply appropriate metrics and discounting to the costs, cost avoidance, and depreciation associated with multi year projects.
Energy Engineering: Energy Engineering is performed by ACES-Energy to aid in the final definition of a menu of Energy Conservation Opportunities within a facility. These services can be provided to supplement in house capabilities, or be a fully independent third party to validate engineering from in house or other sources. Energy Engineering services typically include full cost avoidance calculations using bin or degree day methodology, statistical correlation of energy consumption to production, or occupancy, and sensitivity analysis of specific projects to energy cost volatility, and exogenous variables. Schematic drawings can be furnished as a component of the Energy Engineering Service.
Energy Management System / Utility Monitoring Systems / Real Time Metering: ACES-Energy personnel are experienced in the hardware and software of EEMS (Enterprise Energy Management Systems) EMS, UMS, and metering technologies including experience in commercial and industrial control systems, Graphic User Interfaces, SCADA software, WEB Access, as well as communication media and software technology available. ACES-Energy offers assistance in product evaluation, applications, and project specification. Control projects may be as simple as control system reprogramming to provide greater comfort, energy conservation or a safer building environment; or as complex as multi site web enabled real time metering through system integration.
System integration and control system enhancements: Disparate control systems may be connected using state of the art Microsoft compatible tools. Using these tools provides avenues to expand direct digital control systems using BACnet, LONworks or a variety of other protocols and programming means. Multi system integration engineering is available to connect multiple control systems to allow interoperability, thus reducing programming and expansion costs while reusing existing control hardware and networks. True vendor independence can be achieved through the use of cost effective Graphic User Interface tools and Microsoft integration products.
Data Logging and Analysis: ACES-Energy maintains a complete inventory of high grade data loggers to measure the long term performance of standard energy consuming processes such as HVAC equipment, compressed air systems, boiler and steam systems, chiller, and chilled water systems, as well as electrical loads. Data loggers provide a level of accuracy that single point measurement simply cannot provide. The long-term collection of data provides a higher level of accuracy, and therefore a more complete picture of energy projects, whether it be the preliminary data gathering required to assess energy conservation opportunity, or the post implementation verification phase to evaluate the success of implemented projects.
Contract Reviews: ACES-Energy is not an implementation contractor. We are a technical resource for facility owners and managers who wish to perform energy conservation projects in house, or with outside contractors. In the case of large outsourced contracts, particularly in the area of performance contracting, we will provide contract review assistance, not as legal counsel, but as an unbiased, experienced energy team with a practical perspective of what works and what doesn’t. By reviewing contracts before signing, with a focus on feasibility and realistic expectations, we can help to avoid common pitfalls and produce a successful project. The objective is to reduce costs – not end up litigating an unsound contract.
Forensic Contract and Project Reviews: ACES-Energy reviews projects from an unbiased perspective, to either remediate failed performance contracts or act as a technical resource for the owner in the case of nonperforming or underperforming energy or resource conservation projects. In most cases, specifics of engineering deficiencies, and or contract deficiencies can be identified and addressed to the satisfaction of all parties. In the cases of gross underperformance, quantification of the magnitude of the underperformance can assist in the resolution of the dispute.
Replacing a failed electric power condensate pump with a Pressured Power Pump at the main Wegman's Facility in Rochester, NY
Design and Supplier of Steam and Natural Gas metering to Wegman's to monitor before/during/after a strategic steam trap identification and replacement project