Development of a Benchmarking System for Improved Quality of Energy Performance Indicators

能源效率计划的一个主要障碍是缺乏真正的基准方法。工业能源基准由政府、能源公用事业公司和工业公司使用，能够对相对业绩进行有用的比较，并确定节能潜力。当前形式的基准工业系统和流程依赖于性能指标的比较，而性能指标的比较受到操作条件变化不被考虑的事实的限制。此外，缺乏基准合作伙伴使得制定什么是节能的变得具有挑战性。 ASA能源咨询有限公司是一家能源咨询、工程和项目开发公司。ASA Energy专门从事可再生能源和能效项目的分析、设计、开发和实施，涉及广泛的工业和商业应用。 ASA Energy已与兰布顿学院接洽，以开发一套准确、可重复、可比较、与时间无关、以客户为导向的基准系统和标准，通过基于众所周知和常见的物理定律设置可靠的基准，改进目前由ISO 50001和ISO 50006使用的能源质量绩效指标。 该项目的成功将提供一个易于使用、安全的基于网络的平台，允许设施所有者和运营商使用基于CSA标准的嵌入式基本能源模型对其设施性能进行基准测试。这项新技术将使ASA Energy能够通过提供基于云的平台来进行能源性能基准和节能验证，从而将其能源管理服务扩展到现有客户和新客户。政府和公用事业公司也可以使用该产品来支持他们的需求侧管理计划，并允许他们可靠地向客户提供激励和信用评级。

A main barrier to energy efficiency programs is the lack of a real benchmarking methodology. Industrial energy benchmarking is used by governments, energy utilities and industrial firms, enabling a useful comparison of relative performance and the identification of energy savings potential. Current forms of benchmarking industrial systems and processes rely on a comparison of performance metrics, which are limited by the fact that variations in operating conditions are not considered. Furthermore, the lack of benchmarking partners makes it challenging to constitute what's energy-efficient. ASA Energy Consulting Ltd. is an energy consulting, engineering and project development firm. ASA Energy specializes in the analysis, design, development and implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects across a wide range of industrial and commercial applications. ASA Energy has approached Lambton College to develop an accurate, repeatable, comparable, and time-independent, customer-oriented benchmarking system and standards, improving the quality of Energy Performance Indicators (EnPI) currently used by ISO 50001 and ISO 50006 by setting reliable benchmarks based on well-known and common physical laws. The success of this project will provide an easy to use, secure web-based platform that can allow facility owners and operators to benchmark their facility performance using embedded essential energy models based on the CSA standards. The new technology will allow ASA Energy to expand their energy management services to their existing and new customers by providing a cloud-based platform for energy performance benchmarking and energy savings verification. Governments and Utilities can also use the product to support their demand side management programs and allow them to reliably provide incentives and rate credits to their customers.