Welcome
GEAR serves as the bridge to help electrical utility customers identify, develop and implement energy efficiency plans that match their business plan, yield an accretive financial return for a data center refresh or tune up and secure utility incentives and create enterprise value.”
Nathan Grant,
President & CEO,
GEAR Energy Systems
NEWS FLASH
Healthcare Energy Savings Opportunity
"There are 5,815 hospitals in the U.S. with a total of 951,045 registered hospitals beds according to the American Hospital Association. The average hospital uses 2.5 times the amount of energy as other commercial buildings, says the US Department of Energy, adding up to 836 trillion BTUs or $5 Billion in energy bills annually.”
GEAR KnowledgeHelping our clients achieve
Enterprise Energy Efficiency
GEAR Energy Systems* provides holistic energy management plans , energy efficiency consulting services, and sustainable energy solutions for government and private company data centers, hospitals, biotech, laboratory and other high tech facilities.
As energy experts we help customers save 30% to 50% of energy use and costs using existing techniques and technologies. GEAR engineers, energy auditors and technicians are industry, utility and DoE trained and certified professionals. We provide the simplified energy efficiency solution best suited for your facility and your business model.
GEAR is the one-stop hi tech energy efficiency team. We simplify the process and expedite results.
Developing and implementing an enterprise wide and holistic energy management plan is possible today. Using guidelines and engineering tools developed by DoE, EPA, USGBC, Green Grid, GGHC, the public utility firms and others the GEAR team is the enterprise solution for lowering operating costs and providing sustained value.
At GEAR Energy Systems our energy engineers, auditors and project managers help you reach a high state of energy efficiency.
Our areas of energy efficiency expertise are:
Data Centers & Computing Sites
Target savings: EPA typical 30% or more
Healthcare & Hospitals
Target savings: EPA typical 15% up to 40%
Laboratories, Bio-Tech and High-Tech Facilities
Target savings: EPA typical 10% up to 35% or more
Our energy management approach is holistic and involves a simple yet thorough four step process. Most importantly we look at your energy goals and business model and work to develop a financial return on investment (ROI) and internal rate of return (IRR) for implementing any energy migration program.
A summary of our four step process is:
Phase 0: Energy Assessment Checklist (EAC). Comprehensive checklist to evaluate current operations and opportunities.
Phase 1: Energy benchmarking. Measure, meter and monitor the key expense areas of any enterprise: inefficient lighting, ventilation and cooling, supplemental load reduction, inefficient plug load equipment, underutilized or unneeded infrastructure, right sizing of fans, motors and compressors.
Phase 2: The energy management plan leading to a greening solution. This strategic plan with tactical steps or phased implementation looks at the entire enterprise and all audit measurements. This permits creation of an orderly and cost effective design and implement a comprehensive energy management plan. Including retrofits and return on investment (ROI) models that help determine annualized savings and potential for utility rebates. This phase may involve many stakeholders but goal remains the same—meet operational requirement while migrating the enterprise to an efficient and cost effective energy management and sustainability plan.
Phase 3: Operations and sustainability. Sustainability stage insuring the enterprise has the proper dashboards, metering, monitoring and metrics as well as system processes and tools to continue to manage and drive out energy costs while maintaining energy efficiency levels and targets.
Simplified, certified and professional.
GEAR simplifies your goal of achieving data center energy efficiency while meeting your internal and external customer needs. GEAR is easy to work with, energy efficiency certified and professional. We know energy, we know LEED and Energy Star. We know IT. Complementing your IT, operations and facilities teams we save you time, money and fit your business plan. With GEAR our clients get a comprehensive energy efficiency benchmarks and reports, options and recommendations for energy refresh plans including migration and upgrades of both hardware and software applications, infrastructure and energy cost savings and hands on help in securing utility company incentives and gaining energy certifications. We are both problem takers and problem solvers...
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Solutions that fit your business needs
As the CIO or IT manager, laboratory or hospital operations manager or facilities chief your prime focus is keeping your operations up and running and your “customers” satisfied. You may have an energy, IT migration and lab refresh plan on the drawing table and everyone wants your attention: the box builders, VARs, contractors, MEP firms, vendors, applications teams, your CFO or budget chief and you may have political pressure to reduce costs and streamline operations. You are probably being asked to do more with less.
For a busy team energy benchmarkss for the data center, hospital, lab or tech facility can seem complicated and fragmented. Applying for utility incentives for energy efficiency gains seems like a paperwork jungle. Do I have the expertise? Do I have the time? Is the payback worth the effort? more
The Gear Mission:
We provide simplified and cost effective energy efficiency solutions to local, state and federal government agencies, government contractors and other non-residential customers in the western United States through value added services that meet business needs while reducing electricity usage and overall enterprise costs.
