Reductions in energy spend through better usage and demand management
Reductions in energy spend through better usage and demand management.
| ROI relationship | Directly quantifiable |
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Every kWh removed from consumption creep, the off-hours floor, or a flattened demand peak drops straight to the utility bill. The saving is metered against the site's own baseline and reconciled to the invoice, so the dollar impact is read off the bill — the most directly attributable driver in the model.
The optimization metrics whose impact on energy savings is Direct, primary or Direct, strong — the strongest links — with how each one moves it. The full set of links (including weaker ones) is on the matrix.
| Metric | Impact strength | How it moves this driver |
|---|---|---|
| Chiller Plant Operational Compliance | Direct, primary | Every interval a pump or tower fan runs with no chiller behind it is auxiliary energy spent moving water and rejecting heat that is not being produced. Surfacing the off-sequence run-time — especially the system-off-consistency breaches — is the most direct no-capex lever on the plant's auxiliary load. Per-plant magnitude is expected (pending validation) — offices have no named Keedian reference deployment yet. |
| Plant Efficiency (kW/ton) | Direct, primary | On a chilled-water building the plant is the largest single cooling load, so kW/ton is the most direct read on where its energy goes. Catching efficiency drift early — a fouling trend, a flow problem, a poor staging pattern — turns a whole season of quietly elevated plant energy into a scoped inspection. The savings magnitude is expected (pending validation); offices have no named Keedian reference deployment, so it is quantified per plant against its own design, not an invented benchmark. |
| AHU Fan, Static & Filter Performance | Direct, primary | The supply fan is one of the largest continuous electrical loads on an all-air floor, and its energy is only recoverable while the VFD modulates to the static reset — a drive in bypass or a fouling fan spends fan energy the reset should have saved. Catching degradation and bypass early protects the fan-energy savings the whole add-on depends on. Magnitude is expected (pending validation) — offices have no named Keedian reference deployment yet. |
| Energy consumption | Direct, primary | Consumption is the base signal for spend. Catching consumption creep and an elevated off-hours floor — the load left on overnight, the timeclock that slipped, the case stuck in continuous run — is the most direct no-capex lever to cut the energy bill. Reconciling metered kWh to the invoice also recovers billing and CT-ratio errors. Anchored in 7-Eleven outcomes ($5M energy savings); per-site magnitude is expected (pending validation). |
| Peak demand | Direct, primary | On a demand-billed account the 15-minute peak is the demand charge — often 30-40% of the bill. Flattening it with staggered start-ups, deferred load stages, and pre-cool-and-coast is the most direct lever on this metric. Anchored to the 7-Eleven energy outcome ($5M); the per-site demand saving is expected (pending validation) and is quantified directly from the client's own bill, not an invented benchmark. |
| Per-circuit power & current | Direct, primary | Per-circuit power is what turns a whole-building anomaly into an exact end use. Attributing kWh to the RTU, the rack, or the lighting panel is the only way to know which load to act on — and where the customer also runs Keedian on HVAC, Lighting, or Refrigeration, that attribution is what lets the connected product act on the right circuit. Energy Intelligence reads the meter; it does not command the load. |
| Schedule Compliance | Direct, primary | Off-schedule lighting is energy spent with no operational benefit — sales lighting on after close, exterior or parking lights on at mid-day, a zone left lit overnight. Because lighting non-compliance is almost always pure waste, restoring schedule compliance is the most direct lever to cut lighting kWh. Lighting is commandable, so the platform reverts the circuit to its scheduled state automatically rather than waiting for a site visit. |
| Refrigeration Door Exposure | Direct, primary | Every minute a refrigeration door is open past its expected profile lets warm, humid air into the case, and the asset spends energy pulling the temperature back down. Surfacing prolonged-open events and excessive open time is the most direct no-capex lever on the avoidable refrigeration load a door-equipped asset carries. The magnitude is expected (pending validation). |
| Metric | Impact strength | How it moves this driver |
|---|---|---|
| VAV Airflow & Damper Performance | Indirect | A starved box drives its zone to override — occupants drop setpoints or call for more cooling floor-wide — and pushes the AHU to raise duct static for one bad terminal. Fixing the delivery fault removes the reason the whole floor is run harder than it needs to be. |
| AHU Supply-Air Temperature Compliance | Direct | A handler that cannot hold setpoint drives its boxes to open wide and its own valve to full, and a supply-air-temperature reset that is not followed leaves cooling energy on the table. Holding the discharge — and the reset — is a direct air-side energy lever. |
| Cycling frequency | Indirect | A short-cycling unit never reaches steady-state efficiency and pays the inrush penalty on every restart, so it draws more energy for the same work. Correcting it trims that waste — anchored to 7-Eleven's $5M energy outcome at fleet scale; the per-site figure is expected (pending validation). |
| Power factor | Direct, where billed | On a tariff with a power-factor clause, a low PF is a reactive-power surcharge sitting on the invoice every month. Correcting it — sizing and installing PF-correction capacitors to the reactive load — removes that line. The saving is clean and quantifiable because it is read straight off the bill, not modeled. Anchor any figure to the client's own invoice; broader energy-spend outcomes track to the 7-Eleven program ($5M energy savings) — power factor is one contributing lever, not the whole number, and a site-level estimate is expected (pending validation) until the bill confirms it. |
| Utilization | Direct | On-hours are the dominant driver of lighting kWh. A circuit running well above its expected band — a sales floor lit after close, a sensor-controlled space stuck on — is direct, recoverable energy waste. Because lighting is commandable, catching out-of-band high utilization lets Keedian revert the circuit to schedule and confirm the correction, reducing spend rather than just reporting it. |
| Burn Hours | Indirect, supporting | Burn hours read off the same on/off state as Schedule Compliance, so a circuit running far more hours than its space band is usually pure waste — lights left on after close, an exterior circuit on at mid-day. Since lighting is commandable, that excess is reverted to schedule, and every hour removed is energy saved. The primary energy lever is Schedule Compliance; Burn Hours is the absolute view that makes the wasted hours legible. |
| Refrigeration Temperature Compliance | Indirect, leading indicator | An asset that struggles to hold its band while the store is otherwise normal is often working harder than it should — a door-seal, load, or airflow issue. Surfacing the compliance drift points to the inefficient asset; the energy magnitude is expected (pending validation). |