Energy Monitoring and Control
From Green Garage Detroit
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Contents
What is It?
- A brief description of what it is.
- If it is part of a system-level pattern put a link to it in here.
- Also known as:
Why is it Important?
Describe how it:
- strengthen our relationship to the earth...all are connected (sun, wind, water, plants and animals)
- helps restore the planet's eco-systems (plant, animal, water, air)
- builds strong communities.
- creates equal economic opportunities and energy.
- creates One Earth patterns of living
When to Use It?
- List the important considerations when to use this pattern.
- When would it be sustainable?
- When would it not be sustainable?
Green Garage Use of Energy Monitoring and Control
Sustainability Goals
- Affect the awareness, knowledge and behavior of the Green Garage community to reduce the energy footprint of the building
- Create a connectedness of occupants to the earth's natural systems
- Support a community-level transparency and openness for sharing information and an environment for learning and continuous improving.
- Support achievement of the GG net-Zero energy goal
- Create a product that others can use
- Easy to operate and evolve
Strategy and Conceptual Design
- Energy Truth Window - Real time public display of our energy consumption.
- Supports decision making and action in real time
- Describe how we plan to achieve these goals
- Explain why we chose this specific strategy and design (our rationale)
- Include pictures, drawings or videos(flickr)
Who would use the system?
The Energy Truth Window would be used by:
- Green Garage Community Members to determine:
- how much energy is being used and produced?
- if short and long-term energy goals are being achieved
- what can be done today in the building to minimize energy usage (e.g. windows open for natural ventilation)?
- how much is being spent on energy?
- what is our carbon footprint?
- Community building energy leadership to determine:
- how each of the building energy components are performing (e.g. temperature of thermal storage)?
- make manual changes in the heating/cooling/ventilation system to improve performance or change for the season.
- General public to learn:
- a greater awareness of energy usage and it's impact
- ways to reduce energy consumption
- knowledge of what's even possible (e.g. net-zero energy)
Supporting science:
Proposed Materials / Suppliers
- Identify (via links and short description) the materials and suppliers we propose to use.
Development Story
The ?? - Development Story page contains many images and videos documenting the process used at the Green Garage to design, build and operate our ?? system.
Related Internal Links
- Help people find other related Green Garage pages that may help them. Keep it tight.
Resources
- Provide valuable links to help make it easier for others to pursue this pattern.
