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RTOS A province wide approach to energy management Spencer Wood, Humber College

Ontario Colleges system • • • • • • • •

24 individual Colleges across Ontario Annual spend on utilities ~$50 million Diverse climates, levels of expertise, resources Tight capital funding Strong working relationship RTOS (Real Time Operating System) Electricity procurement Our approach has been to leverage best practices across the province, at relatively low costs.

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Real Time Operating System (RTOS) • • • • • •

Provincial wide energy monitoring and management system 20 Colleges connected, >200 meters Schneider Electric Ion EEM Centralized and shared resource Local and aggregated analysis and control Ontario Buys funding to purchase RTOS – solely College owned. Very low annual fees.

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RTOS Inputs

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RTOS Functions

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What went right • Saved captial $ by sharing system • Real time intelligence • Save operating costs by monitoring performance • Demand management / load shedding • Profiles for better procurement • Shared Resources – Centralized Bill 21 (Energy Conservation and Leadership Act), Green Energy Act Colleges Ontario

• Verify and demonstrate efficiency results • Bill verification • Power Quality analysis • Shared reports, benchmarking • Leverage expertise across the province

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Lessons Learned • Consider the cost of meters in bid analysis • IT issues are the biggest headache.

• Understand how the power flows in your building with accurate single line diagrams • You need someone who can monitor this information • Integrate with BAS

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• Training on how to use it • Billing verification is very difficult to do because of the large numbers of rate structures, and they change.

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Sample analysis screenshot

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Future • Tie in natural gas, water • More meter’s for more sophisticated analysis • Staff dedicated to monitoring / analyzing data • Electricity contract tendering • Dashboards to show building occupants usage data • Continue to track progress, calculate future potential.

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