Energy Plus

How it works.

You don't need any of this to get started. The Exam finds what applies to your building, and we only ever install what pays for itself. This page is here for the moment you want to see the machinery for yourself.

The program runs in phases. Phase one is the HVAC retrofit, where nearly every building starts, because heating and cooling is the biggest lever and the easiest to prove. The deeper fixes come after, sized by your own site data instead of a brochure. This page goes deep on all three phases, in plain language, with the studies and the fine print underneath.

PHASE ONE

The HVAC retrofit.

Heating and cooling is often 40 to 50% of a commercial bill. Most of that runs through one part: the compressor. Everything below either makes the compressor's job smaller, or makes it work smarter, on the units you already own. Combined, we model phase one at 20 to 55% off the heating-and-cooling portion of the bill, and we plan against the floor, not the peak.1

1 The HVAC optimizer

Your compressor runs even when it can't do more work. The optimizer shuts it off at exactly that moment. Same comfort, less energy.

15 to 30% less HVAC energy1

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The most common HVAC systems in America run on a simple on-off compressor. You ask for cold air, it turns on, and it stays on even when it's doing nothing useful, because more than 80% of your HVAC's energy draw runs through that one part.

Think of a sponge. Once it's saturated with water, it can't take on any more. Your coils work the same way: once they're saturated, the air can't get any colder, yet the compressor keeps running. That's pure waste. The optimizer learns how your building and your systems actually run, and keeps adapting week after week to changing weather and changing use. When your coils are saturated, it shuts the compressor down, and the fan keeps pushing the stored cold into the room.

Verified in more than 150 independent studies in 11 countries on six continents, by institutions including NASA, JPL, and Durham College, and approved by utilities from California to Ontario. Proven in San Diego summers, Canadian winters, Dubai deserts, Mumbai humidity, and Bangladesh monsoons.1, 9

2 The coil treatment

Years of compressor oil bake onto your coils like grease onto a pan. Our patented treatment lifts it off, once, for the life of the system. The older the system, the more there is to bring back.

Recovers up to 36% of lost performance1

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In nearly every aging system, something invisible is happening. The compressor slowly leaks oil into the refrigerant, and that oil bakes onto the coils: a thin insulating film that heat can no longer pass through, growing for years with no one to tell you.

Our multi-patented treatment lifts that film away and leaves the metal clean and protected, so oil can't bake on the way it did. Heat transfer returns, so the system reaches temperature faster, shuts off sooner, and lasts longer. And because a clean coil runs colder, it pulls more moisture from the air. Drier air feels colder, so the same comfort arrives at a higher setting, saving even more. Mold and mustiness lose their grip, and the whole building feels fresher. One application, lasting the life of the system.1, 12

3 Solar thermal

Not a solar panel. It captures the sun's heat directly and puts it to work for the compressor. It changes where the energy comes from.

30 to 50% more efficient1

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Panels are large and expensive, and they only add power to feed a system that's still wasting it. Solar thermal takes a fraction of the space by capturing the sun's heat directly and putting it to work for the compressor. It still works on cloudy days, and can even store energy for later.

For HVAC systems that are already supposed to be efficient, this changes where the energy comes from, instead of squeezing what's left of what you buy. Where phase one meets an inverter-based system, this is the fix we reach for.1

4 The roof barrier

A thermal barrier, sprayed or applied as a membrane, where the diagnosis shows it pays. Your HVAC fights less from the start.

Blocks 10+ degrees before it gets in1

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Where it makes sense, we treat the roof so less heat enters the building in the first place, blocking more than 10 degrees before it gets in. Less heat in means less cooling bought, every day the sun is up. It's applied where the diagnosis shows it pays, not everywhere by default.1

PHASE TWO

The deeper savings, earned by evidence.

Phase one leaves behind two weeks of per-unit metering on your building. That data, not a brochure, is what sizes everything below, which is why we propose it second, even when we could sell it first.1

1 Power conditioning

Motors and compressors don't draw power in one smooth line; they draw it in rough, uneven bursts that stress everything they touch. Conditioning the power before it reaches your equipment calms that, and your phase-one metering tells us honestly what it's worth in your building.

Sized from your own site data, not a brochure range1, 12

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The roughness starts inside your building, not on the grid. It costs you in two ways: it makes equipment work harder than the job requires, and it wears out everything it touches. Elevator motors hard-start every time the cab moves. RTU fleets run under that stress around the clock and age years early. Pump, spa, and laundry drives fail the same way.

The fix conditions power as it enters the building, before it reaches your equipment: motors run cooler and steadier, breakdowns drop, and equipment lives longer. Documented results exist at named sites running this technology, including the 24%-of-total-bill project at Edward Hospital in the full record on the overview page; results vary widely by building, which is exactly why we quantify yours from your own phase-one data instead of quoting someone else's number.1, 9, 12

2 Demand charges

Your bill charges you all month for your single highest 15-minute spike of usage. A battery shaves that spike. Efficiency first, then storage: that order is why the math works.

Up to 33% less battery needed1

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Demand charges are one of the largest lines on a commercial bill: your single highest 15-minute spike sets the price for the whole month, no matter how low your usage runs the rest of the time. A battery shaves that spike down.

Because phase one has already shrunk your load, the battery you need is up to a third smaller than it would have been on day one. Efficiency first, storage second: that order is what keeps the cost of the battery in proportion to what it saves you.1

3 Controls, and the cold-heavy buildings

Smart controls tune what phase one installed. And where refrigeration carries the building, supermarkets and cold storage above all, the same diagnose-then-prove program runs on the refrigeration rack.

Scoped per building, from the same exam1, 2

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In a grocery store, refrigeration can be half or more of the electric load, which is why cold-heavy buildings get their own phase-two track: coil treatment on refrigeration systems today, with optimization and heat-recovery technologies staged behind it. The method doesn't change: measure first, prove on your bill, then expand.1, 2

PHASE THREE

Replacement, when it's truly time.

Most buildings never need this step; the phases above usually get there first. When a unit genuinely reaches end of life, you replace it once, with the best that exists.

1 The frontier-class rooftop unit

The gold standard drop-in rooftop unit takes the same footprint as the unit it retires, with every layer of this intelligence built in.

Half or more off heating and cooling energy · IEER 31, COP 61

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When replacement is genuinely the right answer, one simple unit with far less maintenance reaches an IEER of 31 and a COP of 6, cutting heating and cooling energy by half or more. Because phase one already told us exactly how each of your units runs, the replacement decision is made on your data and your depreciation schedule, never on a salesman's timetable.1

Three phases. One exam sets the order.

Across all of it, we pursue every tax deduction, every tax credit, and every utility rebate your project qualifies for, and we handle the paperwork ourselves.3, 4

Structured right, qualifying projects are cash flow positive from day one, and it only improves from there.1, 2

Start with The Exam. The rest follows.

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