Enterprise Energy Management System Installation Case Study at Food Process Plant
Energy Information Systems (EIS) is a combination of software, data acquisition hardware, and communication systems to collect, analyze and display building information to aid commercial building energy managers, facility managers, financial managers and electric utilities in reducing energy use and costs in buildings. This technology helps perform key energy management functions such as organizing energy use data, identifying energy consumption anomalies, managing energy costs, and automating demand response strategies. During recent years numerous developers and vendors of EIS have been deploying these products in a highly competitive market. EIS offer various software applications and services for a variety of purposes. Costs for such system vary greatly depending on the system’s capabilities and how they are marketed. In spring 2004, Del Monte Foods received a funding from State Technologies Advancement Collaborative (STAC) to install EIS at one of their food process plants. Del Monte requested Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to evaluate the EIS vendors. LBNL has been conducting survey and research on EIS.
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