The climate and commercial facilities play a dual role – each impacts the other.
The single largest energy consumer in most commercial buildings, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (USEIA), are HVAC systems, which account for 40 to 50 percent of total energy use. By 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that the global number of air conditioning units will grow from 2 billion to 5.6 billion.
Most commercial facilities produce valuable energy data, but many owners continue to lose or ignore valuable data that can be leveraged for a wide range of operational and cost efficiency. The engagement gap with the collected energy data is due to either lack of real-time views into energy data or failure to leverage the full value of the data for building efficiency improvements.