Energy Management Information System Powers NREL's Intelligent Campus
Covers NREL's Intelligent Campus and how it leverages its own lab buildings to study renewable energy with quantitative measures.
Federal Energy Management Program
March 2, 2021
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Case study covers NREL's Intelligent Campus and how it leverages its own lab buildings to study renewable energy with quantitative measures.
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NREL's Intelligent Campus program leverages its own laboratory buildings as research instruments to study renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy storage, integration, and analysis with real, quantitative measurements. At the heart of NREL's Intelligent Campus program is its Energy Management Information System (EMIS), a family of tools and services used to manage building and campus energy use. NREL's EMIS includes capabilities, such as benchmarking and monthly utility tracking, interval meter analytics, equipment fault detection and diagnostics, condition-based monitoring, and supervisory control, enabling unprecedented energy management capabilities. The system serves as a demonstration project for other federal facilities interested in learning about its design, features, and benefits.