Commissioned to Respond: speaking at TBMOA
David Pour, President & CEO of sTrack Energy, led an education session for the Toronto Building Managers’ and Operators’ Association on why grid-interactive buildings start with existing building commissioning (EBCx).
The session
As Ontario’s electricity system changes, when a building uses energy is becoming as important as how much it uses. Many buildings want to take part in demand response, but before a building can reliably shed load it needs verified control sequences, building automation points that can be trusted, and a documented picture of how much load can be reduced, for how long, without comfort complaints. That groundwork is existing building commissioning, and it is often skipped.
The session covered:
- How common commissioning issues, such as overridden setpoints, drifted sensors, stuck economizers and missing trend data, limit a building’s ability to respond to the grid
- How Ontario’s main peak-demand programs work, and the economics behind them
- Practical HVAC flexibility strategies operators can use, including precooling, setpoint adjustments, staged equipment shedding, ventilation optimization and rebound management
EBCx establishes the flexibility. Our partner company Edgecom Energy, with its analytics and peak forecasting, turns that flexibility into dispatched events and revenue.
Thank you to TBMOA for hosting, and to CoStar Group for the venue.
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