Energy-saving measurement, adjustment and monetization system and method
First Claim
1. An energy conservation metering system, comprising:
- one or more energy load meters operably coupled with a facility'"'"'s energy supply system suitably to either individually or collectively measure a total energy load of the facility, wherein the one or more energy load meters further collectively include data output circuitry suitable to produce data indicative of the measured total facility energy load during a first time period;
a data record stored at a tangible, machine-readable medium, including data indicative of an external environmental temperature during the first period measured at one or more thermal meters disposed and configured suitably to measure an external environmental temperature proximate the facility and to produce the data indicative of an external environmental temperature during the first period; and
data processing circuitry operably coupled with one or more non-transitory data storage media, wherein the data storage media either individually or collectively include stored device-executable coded instructions configured, when executed by the data processing circuitry, to cause the data processing circuitry to;
process both of the data indicative of the measured facility total energy load during the first time period and the data indicative of the measured external environmental temperature during the first time period;
disaggregate plural identified end-use energy load portions from the measured facility total energy load; and
produce a first analog facility model comprising the plural identified end-use energy load portions corresponding to the measured external environmental temperature during the first time period.
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Abstract
System and method include precisely modeling of a facility'"'"'s energy usage over time based on historic data, and precisely predicting or measuring its actual, reduced energy usage over time after a redesign, retrofit, or renovation, or other positive change to the facility. The energy cost savings, whether over a time point of view (POV) of predicted, real-time, or historic, are creditable to the intervening remediation or renovation of the facility'"'"'s energy footprint. In accordance with one embodiment, multiple-variable inputs are modeled using arithmetic regression and steepest-descent convergence arithmetic solutions based in large part on building-science (construction) data versus outside average temperature (t) that simplifies the modeling and measurements. Additionality is thus addressed along with a system and method that is more accurate, more repeatable, more reliable, and thus more credible and more readily monetized.
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22 Claims
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1. An energy conservation metering system, comprising:
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one or more energy load meters operably coupled with a facility'"'"'s energy supply system suitably to either individually or collectively measure a total energy load of the facility, wherein the one or more energy load meters further collectively include data output circuitry suitable to produce data indicative of the measured total facility energy load during a first time period; a data record stored at a tangible, machine-readable medium, including data indicative of an external environmental temperature during the first period measured at one or more thermal meters disposed and configured suitably to measure an external environmental temperature proximate the facility and to produce the data indicative of an external environmental temperature during the first period; and data processing circuitry operably coupled with one or more non-transitory data storage media, wherein the data storage media either individually or collectively include stored device-executable coded instructions configured, when executed by the data processing circuitry, to cause the data processing circuitry to; process both of the data indicative of the measured facility total energy load during the first time period and the data indicative of the measured external environmental temperature during the first time period; disaggregate plural identified end-use energy load portions from the measured facility total energy load; and produce a first analog facility model comprising the plural identified end-use energy load portions corresponding to the measured external environmental temperature during the first time period. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An energy conservation metering method, comprising:
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obtaining data indicative of a total energy load of a facility for a first time period; obtaining data indicative of an external environmental temperature corresponding to the facility for the first time period; processing, by data processing circuitry executing coded instructions accessed at a non-transitory data storage medium, both of the data indicative of the facility total energy load and the data indicative of the external environmental temperature; disaggregating, by the data processing circuitry executing the coded instructions, plural identified end-use energy load portions from the data indicative of the total facility energy load; and producing, by the data processing circuitry executing the coded instructions, a first analog facility model comprising the plural identified end-use energy load portions. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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