Berkeley Castle successfully completed the 4-year OPSaver project, with verified electricity savings from Toronto Hydro, including savings from 2020! Total monetary benefits from electricity savings ALONE reached $342,000 over 44 months with 33% NET electricity savings in the last year.
Berkeley Castle is a historic commercial office building in downtown Toronto. Berkeley Castle’s management team has a commitment to reducing energy use and adopted Energy@Work’s Energy Management Action Plan (E-MAP) in 2017. This led to these verified savings as well as earning ENERGY STAR Building Certification. Along the way, we also won the 2020 Tenant Collaborative Excellence Award! Berkeley maintained their efforts throughout the pandemic and continues to improve.
COVID-19 struck like a thunderbolt and impacted everyone. Commercial offices had a sudden drop in occupancy starting in March 2020, but electricity did not have the same % reduction because buildings had to remain open. Energy@Work maintained the Energy Management Action Plan (E-MAP) to sustain these efficiencies. However, measuring savings from the approved electricity baseline to determine new savings appeared impossible.
We knew that the implemented energy efficiency strategies were successful and were maintained. However, how can we quantify these savings? The case study below, from the Efficiency Valuation Organization (EVO), describes the process and the steps that were taken.
BOMA Toronto’s annual Beyond Earth Hour Challenge is taking place this weekend:
There is still time to participate! BOMA Toronto Beyond Earth Hour Registration
If you have any questions, we are always here to help! Ask Lisa to email us directly.
Inspiration for BOMA BEYOND EARTH HOUR came from the WWF Earth Hour. WWF Earth Hour is on Saturday March 27th from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM with more information on the importance of raising awareness, see:
WWF’s Earth Hour Video!
This is a 44% decrease from January’s GAM ($0.88 billion), and a 55% decrease compared to December 2020:
The $500,000 Million drop is great, but will this be sustained? Should there be an even higher reduction?
Energy@Work wants to see a greater focus on GA cost reduction and also who to speak to ask “why?”. Yes, the Hourly Ontario Energy Price (HOEP) was higher, which accounts for part of the answer but does not provide a complete explanation.
The historical GA costs were last updated in November 2020. This breakdown clearly shows that GA costs are largely Nuclear (OPG and non-OPG). However, conservation continues to be reported as the reason for GA. Another ‘why’ question remains unanswered.
Energy@Work’s services includes a “GAM coach”. We maintain the importance of a GAM Strategy for either Class A or Class B to win the (GAM)e. Our collective savings have exceeded $10 Million.
We assist in evaluating Class A eligibility and assess potential strategies for both Class A and B.
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- Energy@Work