HVAC – Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning

 

HVAC in US Commercial Buildings consume 30% of the roughly $90 billion spent annually on electricity. For most commercial buildings HVAC and lighting are the biggest expenses in the power budget – and the biggest opportunities to generate savings. The challenges, and the opportunities to save, are even greater in energy intensive facilities like restaurants, cold storage, healthcare and

data centers.

 

U.S. Grid Solutions offers a variety of solutions to help businesses capture savings. Recent developments in highly efficient HVAC equipment can be combined with improved building controls, right scale co-generation or combined use, energy capture and re-use, efficient ventilation, insulation, cool roofing materials and targeted maintenance can dramatically lower operating costs for many businesses.

 

Even our lighting solutions can contribute to effective cost savings programs. Inefficient incandescent and fluorescent lighting systems generate significant heat loads. Day lighting where appropriate and replacing lamps with energy miser lighting solutions from U.S. Grid Solutions can lower cooling costs by an additional 10-15%. In certain applications advances in absorption cooling, evaporative cooling, even solar powered cooling, can be major cost cutters.

 

A balanced approach, enabled by innovative financing solutions from U.S. Grid Solutions, can be key to finding savings and generating an immediate cash flow benefit to many clients.