Project Reports
Markets » Commercial, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Food Service Industry, Government - Institutional Facilities, Hospitality
The objective of this study is to determine energy and cost savings as a result of replacing conventional broilers with best-in-class broilers. The project will characterize the technological improvements that contribute to energy reductions in broilers across the market; monitor energy consumption...
Markets » Agricultural - Food Processing, Commercial, Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Food Service Industry, Government - Institutional Facilities, High Technology, Hospitality, Industrial - Manufacturing, Medical - Healthcare, Retail, Supermarket
The purpose of this report is to examine the impact of the available financing options and training on driving customer action towards implementing energy efficiency projects. The Energy Efficiency Finance Team at PG&E aimed to assess a technological solution to addresses three potential...
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Government - Institutional Facilities
The main goal of this Project was to characterize the behavior of radiant heating and cooling systems in order to provide information for designers that would reduce both the cost and the perceived risk associated with radiant systems. The aim is to improve energy and comfort performance by...
Markets » Commercial, Small, Food Service Industry, Hospitality, Medical - Healthcare, Retail
Between November, 2015, and October, 2016, PG&E used two vendors to provide approximately 65,000 small and medium business customers with monthly Business Energy Reports (BERs). An additional 25,000 customers were randomly assigned to control groups. Report types included peer comparison from...
Markets » Commercial, Small, Food Service Industry, Residential
Evaluates a smart water heater controller for energy efficiency in a controlled lab setting. The product is a internet connected, learning controller that installs on existing gas/electric storage water heaters that meet specific manufacturer specifications. The manufacturer also indicated...
Markets » Agricultural - Food Processing, Commercial, Commercial, Small, Industrial - Manufacturing, Residential
The Supply Side DR Pilot (SSP) was designed to study the feasibility of demand‐side resources to participate into the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) wholesale market as proxy demand resources (PDR). The pilot study focused on understanding the issues related with direct...
Markets » Agricultural - Food Processing, Commercial, Commercial, Small, Industrial - Manufacturing, Residential
The Excess Supply DR Pilot (XSP) is a PG&E Pilot focused on testing the capabilities of demandside resources to increase load as a service to the grid during the times of over‐generation on transmission and/or distribution lines as well as in the case of negative prices. Consistent with CPUC...
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Government - Institutional Facilities
The goal of this project is to evaluate linear light-emitting diode (LED) lamps intended to replace equivalent linear fluorescent systems when operating under real-world conditions expected of commercial retrofits and in fixtures other than recessed troffers. Project objectives include evaluation...
Markets » Commercial, Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Food Service Industry, Government - Institutional Facilities
Phase 2 of the project started begun ET13PGE1313 in which the market readiness of available building analytics was researched, and recommendations for evaluation of these products were made. This project will deliver and demonstrate a testing criteria and protocol for energy management software...
Markets » Commercial Office, Commercial, Small, Educational Facilities, Government - Institutional Facilities, Other
The purpose of this Emerging Technology (ET) Field Assessment is to study the impacts of installing phase change material (PCM) in a new construction commercial building and recommend how appropriate modelling strategies may be used for a Savings by Design (SBD) or residential new construction...