As stated by IEA, the International Energy Agency “Energy efficiency is a vital component to meet the challenges faced by the energy sector, which range from ever global increasing energy demand, to concerns about:
- energy safety
- rising energy costs
- climate change
- local air pollution
- affordability of energy supply”.
In this respect, monitoring of energy matters, as a first step, for the achievement of energy efficiency goals.
Energy efficiency is “the first fuel”: it is the key for cost effective energy transitions and the single energy resource that all countries own in abundance. Strong energy efficiency policies are vital to achieving the key energy-policy goals.
The multiple benefits of energy efficiency
Thanks to its comprehensive solutions, including:
- meters
- data analysis
- communication technologies
- controls
Carlo Gavazzi provides all the information necessary to implement, by means of functions like:
- KPIs (key performance indicators)
- benchmarking
- reporting
- management of the base line
- all the automatic tools necessary for the measurements provided by the energy efficiency implementation plan
With transport overtaking buildings as the main sector for increased spending, driving total efficiency-related investment up by 16% to just over USD 560 billion. Under current expected policies, efficiency-related investment is projected to rise by a further 50%, to almost USD 840 billion per year by 2026-30. However, these levels are only about half of the energy efficiency-related investment needed in the second half of this decade to meet the Net Zero Scenario goals.
In the Net Zero Scenario of the WEO 2022 (World Economic Outlook), the share of investment in energy efficiency and electrification rises from 17% of the current total to 32% by 2030, and 40% by 2050.
Meters are useless if relevant data cannot be collected remotely, and remote collected data is useless if not fully automated and properly filtered for a focused analysis!
Nevertheless, an energy efficiency plan is not effective, and savings cannot be achieved if the automatic data analysis does not act properly on loads. Therefore the paradigm is to be able to generate useful information and to automatically convert it into saving actions. A System Integrator in such a situation would combine components from different suppliers to achieve the requested model. The paradigm shift is to be able to provide to the same user a unique complete, flexible and scalable platform.
UWP is the heart of a powerful open system, it acts as a web server and a gateway which embeds various communication protocols.
A System Integrator using a standard monitoring and control architecture would face the following problems:
- system complexity
- cost issues
- a long commissioning time
- a long learning time
The same System Integrator, using UWP "Universal Web Platform" as the core of the Energy saving system would benefit of:
- architecture simplicity
- short commissioning time
- cost reductions
- error proof configuration
- expandability
- scalability
The UWP web platform with full functionalities meets today’s Energy Managers and Energy Service Companies requirements to achieve energy efficiency goals.