Utility Energy Efficiency Partnership
The University of California/California State University (UC/CSU) and Investor-Owned Utility (IOU) Energy Efficiency Partnership is a statewide energy efficiency program that accomplishes immediate, long-term peak energy and demand savings, and establishes a permanent framework for a sustainable, long-term, comprehensive energy management program at the UC and CSU campuses served by California's four large IOUs and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Program Elements
- Retrofit Projects
The Energy Efficiency Retrofit element of the program involves implementation of energy efficiency retrofit projects providing cost-effective energy savings during the 2010-12 program implementation period - Monitoring Based Commissioning (MBCx)
This element of the program is a unique approach to obtaining savings that combines the expertise of the Universities' statewide campus facility management staff, additional utility and subcontractor expertise, and the installation of energy monitoring and metering equipment at the building submeter and system level. Through these resources, a systematic, comprehensive continuous commissioning program will be developed. First, the campuses will install sufficient equipment to insure an extensive and comprehensive built-in measurement and verification capability. Second, this element of the program will be combined with the third element (Energy Efficiency Education and Best Practices Development and Training) to become a "continuous commissioning" program, that is institutionalized at the campuses for the foreseeable future. In this way, savings will be sustained well beyond those from the more typical and limited retro-commissioning programs. Third, the program will identify new cost-effective retrofit opportunities to be proposed for funding in the next CPUC solicitation cycle. - Training & Educaton
The Energy Efficiency Education and Best Practices Development and Training element of the program will develop a comprehensive program for energy education and information exchange among the UC/CSU/Community College campus energy and facility managers and with the IOUs. This program will provide a venue for those individuals responsible for managing energy use on campuses to share information and experiences related to facility operations, best practices, and successful retrofit projects, among other issues. This is an information and education program that will develop and share best practice operating methods and technologies applicable to university campus facilities.