Energy Efficiency Program Design and Product Development
Michaels Energy provides energy efficiency program design and product development to support utility DSM portfolios. And those offerings provide big impacts. Customer experience and follow-through are key elements of each of our programs.
Our team of program managers and engineers carefully consider market barriers and adoption, behavioral elements, and customer interactions while designing a technically sound approach to energy savings. We understand the unique challenges and regulatory environments of our utility clients, and develop solutions to meet those individual needs.
From niche programs to retro-commissioning to strategic energy management – our experience engaging customers and moving them from interest to implementation leads to energy savings realization and a smooth program process for utility personnel.
Our Flagship Offerings
If you can’t find what you’re looking for in our traditional services below, contact us today. We’re always cooking up new innovative offerings from electrification, grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs), specialized training, and more.
- Retro-commissioning
- Commercial New Construction
- Industrial New Construction
- Strategic Energy Management
- Niche Programs
- Find & Fix - Automated Systems
Retro-commissioning optimizes a facility's performance for energy utilization, occupant comfort, and indoor air quality.
Our program design utilizes a screening process to bring the right customers to the program, as well as customer training and meter monitoring to assure customer satisfaction and persistence of savings. Our approach to implementing retro-commissioning programs provides expert guidance through a complicated process without hassle and confusion for the customer.
Features & Benefits
Fast Screening and Enrollment
100% Study Reimbursement
Real Time Verification
Detailed Training
New Source of Energy Savings
Main Value Points
Higher Close Rates
Low Administrative Costs
Savings don’t get wiped out on EM&V
Overcome Regulatory Hurdles
Meet Savings Goals
Commercial New Construction programs should be flexible, scalable and easy for the customer and designers to use.
Our approach to new construction design assistance provides technically sound energy calculations and cost estimations that are delivered at the right time for architects, engineers, and owners. This allows them to make the best possible decisions for their buildings during a chaotic design process. We use state of the art modeling technology, as well as custom calculations where existing modeling software doesn’t provide suitable accuracy.
Features & Benefits
Program Incentivizes
Prescribed Menu of Design Features
Menu-Driven Program
Clear Savings Potential
Measurement and Verification
Main Value Points
Deeper Energy Savings
Acceptance is High
High Customer Satisfaction
More Cost Effective
Avoids Savings Deductions
Industrial customers do not fit into the commercial new construction model and often miss out on this type of design assistance.
Michaels developed a program specifically for industrial new construction. This is not a commercial new construction program hammered to fit industrial projects. It is designed to fit the unique design and construction phases of any industrial and manufacturing construction project. Moreover, the program addresses key barriers that are unique to industrial construction projects and not present in commercial construction projects.
Features & Benefits
New Source of Savings
Baselines are Well Documented
Increasing Graduated Incentives
Evaluation in Waves
Handsome Incentives for Design Team
M&V for Implemented Projects
Main Value Points
Meet Portfolio Goals
Defendable Savings that Persist
More Savings Toward Goals
Trade Ally and Customer Satisfaction
Efficient Design Alternatives
Greater Realized Savings
Strategic Energy Management (SEM) is an organization-wide approach that sets long-term energy savings goals and puts systems in place to track those goals.
Our program approach is centered on flexibility for the customer – adapting to ever-changing facilities, driving significant and long-term energy savings, and making efficient practices long-term and persistent. By helping the customer identify their current strengths in energy management, we help them grow in their energy practices.
Features & Benefits
Energy Management Practices
Certified Facilitators
Assessment by Expert Energy Engineer
Skills Required for Follow-on Services
Energy Management Information System Platforms
Main Value Points
Assesses Critical Level of Management
C-Suite Involvement
Management and Facility Benchmarking
One-Stop-Shopping
Maintain Savings Over Long-Term
Niche programs fill gaps and help round out successful program portfolios.
Michaels offers segment-specific programs such as hotels, municipal buildings, libraries, and casinos, as well as technology-specific programs like advanced rooftop units, pumps, fans, and blowers. Our approach to niche programs is based upon thorough knowledge of customer segments, proven pilot programs and transition to permanent programs, vast experience analyzing specific technologies, and successful collaboration with utilities.
Features & Benefits
Fill Holes in Program Portfolios
R&D Pilot Programs
Technology-based Niche Programs
One-Stop-Shop for Utilities/Administrators
Main Value Points
Assisting Underserved Sectors
Quick Turnaround to Launch Programs
More Projects over the Long Term
Keeps Customers Engaged
Improve the performance of your building without the hassle, time, or unwanted expense.
Like cars and people, building HVAC control systems require check-ups and maintenance to perform at their best. The Find and Fix – Automated Systems program offers automated systems check-ups for the busy facility manager. This quick, proactive solution helps reduce overhead costs, complaints, and chronic repairs.
Features & Benefits
HVAC Control Systems Review
Targeted Measure List
Real Time Verification
Quick Turnaround on Projects
Main Value Points
Low to No Risk
Easy for Customers to Participate
Improved Customer Satisfaction
Instant Savings for your Portfolio
Looking for a partner to help with your energy programs?
WE’D LOVE TO HELP.
Michaels Energy has been using our passion for all-things-energy to help building owners, utilities, consultants and partners save energy and design high performing systems, processes and programs since 1984. Energy efficiency, resource preservation, and long-term cost effectiveness are an integral part of everything we do.
