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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Energy management information systems (EMIS) are a broad and rapidly evolving family of software tools that monitor, analyze, and control building energy use and system performance. NREL’s Intelligent Campus program uses an EMIS to manage, save, and report energy use; test, demonstrate, and study the integration of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies; and make operational decisions that minimize emissions or enhance resiliency.
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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.