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Smart Power Strips


Background
Smart Power Strips are a conservation measure aimed at reducing plug loads of electronic equipment in offices or other commercial spaces. The Regional Technical Forum has provisionally deemed commercial installations of Smart Power Strips a cost-effective energy savings measure, assigning 100kWh in annual savings to each qualified installation and setting an expiration for the provisional deeming on October 1, 2011. BPA seeks to collect additional information on the energy saved by this measure to support full deeming, and has established a reimbursement of $20 per unit in order to catalyze utility installations and enable research. BPA plans to coordinate and support field metering on units installed by participating customer utilities.

In order to collect information on multiple different types of Smart Power Strips, BPA has established a broad specification for this measure. By establishing a reimbursement based on provisionally deemed savings and costs, utilities will supported in operating programs to install the measure. Utility efforts in rapidly deploying this equipment will position the region to complete research more rapidly than would be possible through an isolated BPA effort. BPA has created a research plan to monitor these installations to measure and verify provisionally deemed savings and costs for this measure.

Due to the research objectives related to this measure utilities participating in the installation of this measure are required to provide specific research data (equipment make/model, cost, building type) for each installation, and are encouraged to work with BPA in a detailed post metering evaluation to confirm savings estimates. Required information is collected through the Planning, Tracking, and Reporting system and includes the following:

  • Utility name
  • Building (site) type
  • Business Name
  • Site Address
  • Equipment type
  • Make/Model
  • No of units installed
  • Per Unit Equipment Cost
  • Per Unit Installation/labor Cost

As the program is launched, BPA will request that any utilities interested in participating in the detailed metering portion of this initiative contact BPA for more information. Utilities interested in participating in the offer are invited to contact their Energy Efficiency Representative.

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