CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

Representative Projects

Customer Energy Efficiency Program
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)
Since 2001, BASE has performed over 100 integrated energy assessments for large manufacturing, institutional and commercial customers in PG&E’s vast Northern California territory as part of PG&E’s Customer Energy Efficiency Program. The integrated audits include assessment of plants for energy efficiency, demand response, cogeneration, and renewable energy projects. Audited facilities have included various industrial plants, food processing plants, foundries, nurseries, water and wastewater plants, hospitals, school campuses, commercial office buildings, data centers and high-tech plants with large clean rooms.


Savings By Design Program
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)
BASE enjoys the largest project category assignment for PG&E’s Savings By Design program evaluating non-residential and new construction facilities. Since 2005, BASE has completed almost 50 projects including wineries, dairies, water banking projects, fresh water pumping stations, wastewater treatment facilities and sewer pumping stations.


Super Audit Contractor
Southern California Gas Company
From 1995 to 2003, BASE performed over 170 comprehensive energy assessments of all energy-consuming devices in small, medium and large institutional, commercial and industrial facilities in Southern California for the Super Audit Program. This program was administered by Southern California Gas Company on behalf of the California Public Utilities Commission.


Energy Savings Project
Anchorage School District (ASD)
Through Raven Electric of Anchorage Alaska, BASE performed investment-grade energy audits of 11 schools, a central maintenance facility, and the student nutritional facility for ASD. Building simulation was used extensively, and estimated annual energy savings ranged between 15% and 40% for each site. This project became the basis for a bond measure issued by the ASD. A summary of project results has been published in 2003 AEE World Energy Efficiency Congress, Atlanta, GA.

 
     
 
 
 



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Building Diagnostic Project
Anchorage School District (ASD)
Through benchmarking, ASD had identified several of its newly-built schools as energy inefficient when compared with other ASD schools. BASE, along with Raven Electric of Anchorage, Alaska, identified the sources of building inefficiency using detailed measurements and data logging of operational conditions, building simulation, and infrared (IR) thermography.


Savings by Design Project
Anchorage School District (ASD)
BASE reviewed design documents of a new, 170,000 sq.ft. ASD school considered for construction. We proposed six independent design modifications resulting in a potential $30,000 annual energy cost savings (over 10% of the total estimated annual energy cost). To complete the evaluation, BASE performed detailed hourly simulations of the building and evaluated the proposed building systems against ASHRAE standards, best practices, and the state-of-the-art technologies.


Baseline Evaluation for Implementation of Energy Efficiency in Wastewater Treatment Facilities
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)
To encourage wastewater treatment plants to use advanced technologies and to create a basis for awarding incentives for applying these technologies. Under contract with PG&E, BASE has developed the baselines for evaluating wastewater treatment facility technologies. We have performed a detailed survey of these facilities in the vast PG&E service territory, communicated with design engineering firms, and performed detailed literature search to establish the baselines.


Plant-wide Assessments: Neville Chemical Company facilities (Anaheim, CA and Pittsburgh, PA)
US Department of Energy
BASE performed detailed, plant-wide assessments, including energy and waste assessments, of Neville Chemical, a major U. S. manufacturer of adhesive resins. As a part of the project, we estimated the energy savings in similar facilities nationwide. Significant opportunities for savings, over 25% of the annual energy consumption, with relatively short payback periods were identified in several systems. A summary of the results have been published in 2003 ACEEE Summer Study Proceedings.


Compressed Air Audits
Sierra Army Depot (SIAD) (Herlog, CA)
One of BASE’s compressed air system audits for a major industrial facility was a detailed survey for the Sierra Army Depot (SIAD) in Herlog, CA, a large facility for repair and maintenance of U.S. Army machinery. BASE’s detailed report outlined the current status of SIAD’s compressed air system, including maintenance and training issues as well as measures and economic details for improving the system energy efficiency.


Owner Representative Project
California Department of General Services
From 2001 to 2003, BASE was under contract with Energy Management Division (EMD) of California Department of General Services as the owner-representative for their ESCO projects, which included hospitals, prisons, educational facilities and office buildings. BASE assisted EMD in major tasks including review and comment on energy conservation assessments and audits; management of the design process and review of the designs for energy conservation projects; review and management of energy conservation service agreements and measurement and verification (M&V) protocols; and other technical review tasks.


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