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Wasted energy.
Centrica Business
Solutions’ Panoramic
Power platform revealed
that The Franklin’s
off-timed temperature
control settings led to its
excessive energy use.

COURTESY OF CENTRICA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

Centrica Business

Solutions

his historic company s green in uence is e erywhere.

Centrica Business Solutions helps customers gain competitive to the property’s fan-powered boxes from 98 electric panels. The
advantage from energy by building intelligent end-to-end company’s analytics platform, PowerRadar, revealed that the majority
energy solutions that power performance and resilience. The of tenant ‹oors consume electricity during unoccupied hours and that
company is North America’s No. 1 natural gas supplier and nighttime setback controls were keeping the ‹oors at unnecessarily
second-largest power supplier. Centrica Business Solutions warm temperatures at night.
(https://bit.ly/2MYvYti) is part of Centrica plc, a two-century-old The monitoring revealed that The Franklin was unnecessarily heating
international energy and services company headquartered in the property during unoccupied hours, while year-round heating
Windsor, United Kingdom. tendencies led to simultaneous heating and cooling in the summer.
The switch to occupancy-based power use resulted in a 3-million-
HEN TISHMAN SPEYER, owner of The Franklin kWh reduction in annual energy use, and a savings of more than 7
in Chicago, engaged a service company to perform percent of the property’s historical annual energy consumption.
monitoring-based commissioning services, the prop-
erty’s annual energy use exceeded 40 million kWh.
W After establish- They’re an Eco-Leader because...
ing HVAC data integration proto- hrough our uni ue ■ Centrica’s responsible procurement program includes use of its
cols, The Franklin’s engineering combination of deep purchasing power to embed high social, ethical and environmental
personnel were alerted to operat- expertise and broad range standards across its supply chain.
ing anomalies that could lead to of solutions, we help ■ The company partners with facility and operations managers to
excessive wasted energy. Centrica understand the impact energy has on their businesses—from
Business Solutions’ PowerRadar organi ations around the supplying tools that monitor all energy consuming devices and making
mobile application enabled the site world ta e control of their recommendations on when to curb use, to providing energy solutions
engineering team to view the same energy with new to best match their sustainability needs.
daily and weekly performance ■ Centrica improves the sustainability of the built environment by
data available to service company distri uted energy sources empowering customers to manage costs, improve operational efficiency,
Sieben Energy Associates. and technologies. enhance resilience and reduce CO2 emissions.
Speyer’s service company began orge i unic, glo al ■ The company offers end-to-end energy services across a range of areas,
using Centrica’s Panoramic Power managing director of including energy insight, energy efficiency, demand response, combined
sensors and communication heat and power, solar + storage, and power generation.
bridges to monitor power draw entrica usiness olutions

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