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Building Performance Services: Guidelines and Program Test Progress Report
Abstract
This paper presents the progress of the Building
Performance Services (BPS) program begun in July
2002 as a partnership between the Northwest Energy
Efficiency Alliance (Alliance) and northwest regional
electric utilities. This paper focuses on Phase One,
the newly released Building Performance Services
(BPS) Implementation Tool Kit. It also presents
some progress on Phase Two, a program test with
three electric utilities in Washington-Puget Sound
Energy, Snohomish Public Utility District No. 1 and
Seattle City Light. Phase Three will incorporate the
experience of the program test and in early 2004, the
BPS Program will be extended to all electric utilities
in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. The
BPS Implementation Tool Kit provides detailed
guidelines for three levels of service designed to
reduce the energy use of medium and large existing
commercial buildings. Operations and Maintenance,
Energy Tune-Up and Commissioning are expected to
save about 5%, 10% or 15% of the building's
operating cost respectively.
Citation
Anderson, K. J.; Tuffo, M.; Schick, S. (2003). Building Performance Services: Guidelines and Program Test Progress Report. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /5217.