Occupancy-Based Energy Management in Buildings: Final Report to Sponsors

Michael D. Sohn, Doug R. Black, Phillip N. Price, Yiqing Lin, Rohini Brahme, Amit Surana, Satish Narayanan, Alberto Cerpa, Varick Erickson, Ankur Kamthe

Abstract

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the University of California Merced (UCM), and the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) conducted field studies and modeling analyses in the Classroom and Office Building (COB) and the Science and Engineering Building (S & E) at the University of California, Merced. In the first year, of a planned multi-year project, our goal was to study the feasibility and efficacy of occupancy-based energy management. The first-year research goals were twofold. The first was to explore the likely energy savings if we know the number and location of building occupants in a typical commercial building. The second was to model and estimate people movement in a building. Our findings suggest that a 10-14% reduction in HVAC energy consumption is possible over typical HVAC operating conditions when we know occupancy throughout the building. With the conclusion of the first-year tasks, we plan to review these results further before this group pursues follow-on funding.

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Michael D. Sohn, Doug R. Black, Phillip N. Price, Yiqing Lin, Rohini Brahme, Amit Surana, Satish Narayanan, Alberto Cerpa, Varick Erickson, Ankur Kamthe, "Occupancy-Based Energy Management in Buildings: Final Report to Sponsors," LBNL Technical Report, pp. 1--58, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, USA, June, 2010.

Bibtex

@TechReport{Sohn10a,
  author =       "Michael D. Sohn and Doug R. Black and Phillip N. Price
                 and Yiqing Lin and Rohini Brahme and Amit Surana and
                 Satish Narayanan and Alberto Cerpa and Varick Erickson
                 and Ankur Kamthe",
  title =        "Occupancy-Based Energy Management in Buildings: Final
                 Report to Sponsors",
  year =         "2010",
  number =       "LBNL Technical Report",
  pages =        "1--58",
  month =        jun,
  organization = "Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
                 (LBNL)",
  address =      "Berkeley, CA, USA",
  URL =          "http://www.andes.ucmerced.edu/papers/Sohn10a.pdf",
}

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