ENHANCED BUILDING OPERATIONS PROGRAMOPERATE YOUR BUILDING EFFICIENTLY AND SAVE

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We can help you operate your building so it’s more reliable and comfortable, and saves you money on your energy bill.

Our Enhanced Building Operations Program will guide you to find ways to save energy in your existing building, and how to fix ongoing problems with systems and equipment.

Energy saving opportunities include improvements to operations, maintenance, control strategies and systems.

The goal is to bring your building to its top performance and operate it efficiently for continued savings.

With the help of program incentives, you can recover project costs and realize savings faster. Our program will pay a portion of your upfront costs to investigate energy savings and select the best measures to implement, which

reduces your risk. Typical projects save about 10 per cent of total building energy costs and recover costs within two years.

The process to find energy savings is called retro- or re-commissioning (RCx). During RCx, building systems are designed, installed, tested, operated and maintained to verify and record that all needs are being met. Re-commissioning puts a building through the process again, following a change in operations or needs. Retro-commissioning applies the process to an existing building for the first time.

Reduced energy, operating, and maintenance costs

Increased occupant comfort

Improved buildingand equipment

reliability

Added value toproperty and assets

Increased technical knowledge ofoperating staff

Persistent problems solved Efficient Operations

BENEFITS OF EFFICIENT BUILDING OPERATIONS

IS YOUR BUILDING A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR SAVINGS? £ It is an existing commercial building over 35,000 square feet;

£ The project has not yet started (projects in progress or completed are not eligible);

£ All energy saving measures with a simple payback of two years or less will be implemented and tracked for three years by the building owner/manager;

£ The building will carry on as a Manitoba Hydro customer and will not undergo changes in use or planned equipment upgrades for three years following the project.

HOW TO TAKE PART• Complete an energy saving opportunities questionnaire, which can be

printed from hydro.mb.ca/psfb.

• Submit your completed questionnaire to Manitoba Hydro.

• Following review, Manitoba Hydro will contact you to discuss your building and collect more information.

• Complete an application and agreement which identifies your investment, incentives, and the program process.

• Hire a professional building consultant to serve as your commissioning provider and choose your building operations project team.

• Progress through the steps with your project team:

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Implement and validate measures

Monitor ongoing efficiency

Efficient OperationsFinish Line

Identify energy savings

Investigate opportunitiesStep1

Steps for building performance

A list of participating building consultants (commissioning providers) is available at

hydro.mb.ca/your_business/building_operations/how_to_take_part.shtml

INCENTIVES

The program offers financial incentives to pay a portion of professional building consultant’s fees. Incentive amounts are based on occupied and heated floor area of your building. For example, a 100,000 square foot building would be eligible to receive up to $31,700 in incentives.

Maximum incentives for your building can be determined with the online calculator at

hydro.mb.ca/your_business/building_operations

We can help you determine if your building is a good candidate for this program.

Contact us for more information about this and other Power Smart* for Business programs:

powersmartforbusiness@hydro.mb.ca

204-360-3676 (Winnipeg) or 1-888-624-9376

hydro.mb.ca/psfb

Available in accessible formats upon request.