Patent Document ID: 5566084
Application ID: 08323526
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A process for making retrofitting changes in lighting, power/process and HVAC devices in a facility having lighting, power/process and HVAC energy-consuming devices distributed there-through and at which facility there is controlling of the operating of said devices on fixed schedules that comprises, first, determining possible retrofitting changes in the facility and its devices that might affect energy conservation if made; secondly, thereupon implementing such retrofitting changes in the facility and its devices; and thirdly, verifying the actual energy conservation produced thereby; said determining being effected by producing an energy consumption and demand estimate by the following modeling steps (1) providing monthly electric bill data for the facility over a twelve consecutive month period to ascertain therefrom billing periods and KW and Kwh consumption and to obtain from the ratio thereof (Kwh/KW) the hours of peak demand per week, which provides an estimate of hours of use for the facility; (2) providing facility area and daily minimum and maximum outside weather temperature data for the prior twelve months; (3) collating said data; (4) identifying from the provided and collated data, patterns of energy consumption and demand; (5) desegregating KW demand among end-uses of lighting, power/process, and HVAC use-dependent, and producing estimates of their effective connected load at peak demand, while attributing the remaining KW not disturbed among such end-uses to HVAC temperature-dependent end-use; (6) desegregating energy consumption according to end-use by using the said estimate of hours of use of the facility and attributing remaining consumption to HVAC end-use; (7) performing analysis of regressing consumption against a polynomial of outside temperature data for lighting/power and HVAC use-dependent hours of operation; (8) adjusting the hours of operation estimates across the monthly data for a best-fit curve and optimization; (9) predicting energy conservation potential by analyzing performance characteristics of proposed retrofit changes against existing operating conditions; and relating and displaying the predicted energy conservation potential as an estimated hour/demand curve; said retrofitting change implementing being effected upon the selecting of the proposed retrofit changes and in response thereto, by changing the said controlling at the facility, thereupon to effect the device operating schedule changes required for said retrofitting; said verifying of the actual energy conservation produced after the retrofitting changes are made, being effected by monitoring at the retrofitted facility the real time actual energy consumption to produce an actual operating hour/demand curve, and comparing the displayed estimated hour/demand curve with the actual real time operating curve to verify the energy conservation actually achieved after retrofit with the predicted energy conservation potential.