1. Rapid Building Assessment
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2. Technology Description
FirstFuel’s Remote Building Analytics (RBA) platform is an analytics- driven energy information service designed to help large government agencies and utilities rapidly and cost-effectively target, prioritize, quantify, enable, and track energy savings in heterogeneous building portfolios, at scale.

3. How Does It Work
The FirstFuel RBA requires hourly building utility electric meter data, the building type, and address.
It then produces a remote set of building-specific performance insights and customized recommendations at an end-use consumption level.

4. Benefits of the Technology
Allows the EMs to immediately implement uniquely identified low or no cost operational savings and ECMs.
Significantly reduces the time and cost relative to traditional on-site audits across a range of DOD specific building types.
Provides DoD site energy managers with an insightful, intuitive tool to focus and refine energy savings efforts, and compare building performance within the portfolio.
Provides a means to track energy performance and savings over time to track progress of long-term efforts, aid reporting, validate the effectiveness of energy conservation projects, and maintain the persistence of savings.

5. Technology Success Stories
Technology has been successfully Demonstrated by ESTCP
FirstFuel analytics were applied to 100 Department of Defense (DoD) buildings in total across five different DoD specific building types.
The results of this project and achievement of the performance objectives suggest that the FirstFuel RBA can present significant advantages over the DoD’s traditional approach to onsite energy audits and continuous performance monitoring.
ESTCP Demonstration Sites:
Detroit Arsenal
Naval Station Everett
Fort Benning
Oregon Air National Guard
Fort Bliss
Picatinny Arsenal
Fort Carson
Port Hueneme
Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Tobyhanna Army Depot
Naval District Washington

6. Potential Challenges and Solutions
Buildings without interval electric consumption data were not usable for the remote auditing technology.
Buildings with less than 1 years’ interval electric data, proved difficult or impossible to complete an analysis.
Buildings that are not occupied for months at a time, or buildings that have very low energy consumption may present misleading end- use analyses results.
The impact of this limitation is partially mitigated by the finding that these types of buildings often have lower consumption and/or limited energy efficiency opportunities.

7. Sample Financial Considerations
The high range assumes that there are 100 buildings in the deployment, and they are between 50,000 and 300,000 GSF. On a per building basis, typical remote audits range between $1000 and $7000, depending on building size.

8. Bottom Line
Pros
Does not require any on-site devices or visits, the platform can be deployed rapidly and with no further installation cost.
Leverages existing or planned infrastructure investments
Potentially saves time and money
Cons
To perform the remote auditing analysis the portfolio buildings must have near 1 years’ or greater interval electric consumption data.
Buildings that are not occupied for months at a time, or buildings that have very low energy consumption may present challenges to perform the end- use analyses or could produce misleading results.
Potentially presents security issues with the data collection and storage.

9. Where to Learn more
Mr. Tim Tetreault, ESTCP Energy and Water Program Manager,
SERDP-ESTCP Website,
Mr. Swapnil Shah, POC at FirstFuel Software,
Installations:
Mr. Sakhawat Amin, Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Mr. Ray Smalling, Naval Station Everett
Mr. Craig Volz, Oregon Army National Guard
Mr. Vern Novstrup, Port Hueneme
Mr. Dennis Wike, Fort Bliss
Mr. Mark Fincher, Fort Benning
Mr. Mohammed Ikram, Detroit Arsenal
Mr. Nathan Edwards, Tobyhanna Army Depot
Mr. Nicholas Stecky and Ms. Gricel Robles, Picatinny Arsenal
Mr. Jeffrey Johnson and Ms. Dana Sevier, Naval District Washington

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11. Demonstration Performance Objectives

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13. Demonstration Performance Objectives