By
Greentech Lead Team:
Progressive Lighting & Energy Solutions, a green lighting provider, has
started California’s most comprehensive green project in an existing building.
The project
consists of cutting-edge building efficiency controls and lighting retrofit at
the Tarlton Properties, located in Menlo Park, California.
Progressive
Lighting & Energy Solutions’ energy-efficient lighting designs and wireless
building control systems reduce energy consumption up to 60 percent by retrofitting
existing commercial and industrial buildings.
The Tarlton
Properties project will maximize building efficiencies through an integration
of HVAC and lighting systems that will future proof the campus for demand
response, tiered rate pricing and changes in California Title 24.
By using
Wireless control granulation to each fixture, Progressive Lighting
provided user vacancy control, task tuning by fixture, daylight harvesting and
space temperature monitoring via the IP-based building system.
Progressive
Lighting & Energy Solutions, in participation with Pacific Gas &
Electric (PG&E), secured funding through a combination of utility 3rd
Party Program and core incentives from RightLights, California High Performance
Lighting Program (CHCLP), PG&E’s Express Efficiency Program and Automated
Demand Response Technical Incentives. Tarlton Properties will garner over $1
million in rebates and technical incentives.
“This project
emulates the CPUC’s interest in promoting a loading order for best practices in
conservation, management, demand response and ultimately self-generation. We
have taken the concepts of the ‘smart grid’ down to the tenant end-user level,”
said
Karl Gee, senior energy specialist for Progressive Lighting.
The Tarlton
Properties project is estimated to generate energy savings in excess of
$400,000 per year and reduce greenhouse gas emission by 1,000,000+ pounds per
year. Tarlton Properties will realize an annual utility bill savings of more
than $400,000, with an annual return on investment of 20 percent.
The use of
the wireless mesh network controlling power levels on an individual fixture
basis allows for seamless integration with advanced automated demand response
protocols and load shedding in participation with “smart grid” notifications to
the property to dispatch loads as needed.