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The Gear Energy Solutions team also strongly supports application of energy efficiency in the overall development of customer and enterprise business planning and in fostering local, state and national programs that focus on delivery of cost effective energy services. GEAR works with its clients and partners as well as advocacy groups to insure energy policy is in the national interest and applied at the local level.
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Some areas that GEAR supports with energy services solutions include:
- Identify and evaluate energy-saving opportunities that will cover investment costs
- Engineering designs and specifications;
- Project management from design to installation to monitoring;
- Training and provide ongoing maintenance services
GEAR also works closely with all the power utilities to insure we are compliment with PUC and other regulatory mandates and also to develop and provide energy efficiency training to public and private entities and organizations.
For further information on our energy efficiency services and training programs contact us today at info@gearenergysys.com or contact us at 510-566-1655.
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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 benchmarks 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?
With GEAR we let you focus on your core competence and leave the energy baseline and audit, efficiency recommendations and utility rebate process to us. We serve as your independent auditors. As an extension of you and your team we are your energy efficiency experts and advocates working with all stakeholders in the data center and enterprise.
Working with GEAR makes your job easier. Our process for success is simple for you to embrace and execute yet technical, thorough and a value add tool for your decision making process. A summary of the GEAR Three Phase Data Center Energy Efficiency Benchmark and Rebate process is as follows:
PHASE 1: ENERGY BENCHMARK & REPORT:
| A. | We meet with you and your team to understand your requirements, review your data center, lab, hospital or hi tech configuration, develop a schedule and establish a baseline process and expectations | |
| B. | Provide you a written proposal including the scope of work and steps to conduct an energy efficiency benchmark and analysis plan & report | |
| C. | Data Center, lab, hospital or hi tech configuration review, audit, analysis and report compilation takes between 2 and 4 weeks | |
| D. | Issue a comprehensive report with findings, detailed engineering results and formulas, and present options and recommendations to achieve data center energy efficiency, equipment refresh, hardware and software migration and overall energy focused solutions to meet business requirements. |
PHASE 2: DATA CENTER ‘GREENING':
| A. | Outline steps for achieving data center, lab, hi tech or hospital refresh and achieving energy efficiency goals | |
| B. | Develop an energy efficiency plan for success involving all stakeholders | |
| C. | Work with local utility energy team to baseline and document our customer's energy usage in the enterprise and plans for energy reduction and refresh | |
| D. | Secure program sign off |
PHASE 3: DATA CENTER REBATE & SUSTAINABILITY:
| A. | Initiate data center, lab, hospital or hi tech facility refresh plan | |
| B. | Document energy savings in the refresh | |
| C. | Submit results to utility | |
| D. | Receive rebate from utility |
Rebate process and options
GEAR helps you understand and select energy efficiency options that will result in the largest possible utility rebate. Areas that we review include:IT Equipment Energy (Fans, Motors, Variable Speed Drives, Air Compression Systems)
- Rebate is based on the first year's energy savings calculated
- Incentive per kWh saved
- Varies by utility
HVAC Energy (Air Conditioning and Refrigeration)
- Rebate is based on the first year's energy savings calculated
- Incentive per kWh saved
- Varies by utility
On-Peak Demand Reduction
- Based on reduction of kW during On-Peak Demand
- Varies by utility
Server Reduction due to Consolidation and/or Virtualization
- Rebate is based on the number of physical servers reduced
- Up to a $200 rebate for each server removed
- Pre- and post-inspection required
- Varies by utility
Management & Organizational Best Practices
Maximizing energy efficiency while maintaining - if not improving - data center performance and reliability is not just a matter of substituting better technologies and operational procedures. The broader institutional context of the design and decision-making processes must also be addressed.Technical Best Practices
We provide 67 "best practices" for optimizing energy efficiency and facility performance. The bulleted items indicate key objectives for capturing these benefits based on a report published by Energy Design Resources.- 1. Mechanical: Airflow Management
- 2. Mechanical: Air Handler Systems
- 3. Mechanical: Humidification
- 4. Mechanical: Plant Optimization
- 5. IT Equipment: Selection
- 6. Electrical Infrastructure
- 7. Lighting
- 8. Commissioning and Retro-commissioning
