Energy savings measurement and verification through awareness program in an educational building campus / Rijalul Fahmi Mustapa ...[et al.]

Energy conservation measures (ECM) is a strategy
taken to achieve efficient electrical energy utilization. Two main
ECM strategy is retrofitting old inefficient loads or through
awareness programme and the energy saved is being calculated
through baseline energy models. Energy service company
(ESCO) is in the helping hands towards retrofitting old
unefficient loads without any upfront payment with the
establishment of energy performance contract (EPC). There are
certain problems and issues arise pertaining to baseline energy
models and EPC through ESCO respectively. Baseline energy
models is always associated with problems on selection of the
variables that affect the energy consumption for prediction
purpose. EPC payback period from the achieved savings may
create legal issues and bureaucracy on the terms and aggrement.
Thus there are two main intention of this paper which is to
investigate the variables that affecting energy consumption
through single and multiple regression model and to calculate
energy savings from ECM through awareness as an alternative to
retrofitting old unefficient loads. Results show that multiple
regression model have higher coefficient of determination value
and from the ECM that have been conducted, it can be seen that
energy savings through awareness programme is achievable. It is
hoped that from this work, baseline energy models can be
developed with the important variables for prediction purpose
and awareness program can be implemented as an alternative for
retrofitting program to achieve energy savings with hassle free of
legal issues and bureaucracy.