Rains Energy can help your building achieve its BEST performance potential by offering our EXTENSIVE experience in both operating and improving the energy efficiency of high-performance green buildings. Our company is proudly able to provide comprehensive assessments of your building’s functional assets and liabilities to specify cost-effective improvements.
Our Mission is to provide YOU – the building owners, managers, and operators – with the proper information and tools you need to:
- Reduce electricity, fuel, and water bills
- Save money on operations and maintenance costs
- Operate your buildings at maximum efficiency
- Improve occupant comfort and satisfaction
- Increase property value
- Estimate savings potential and provide return on investment calculations
- Comprehensive diagnosis of your building’s performance
- Utilizing cutting edge innovative technology
Energy Audits:
Here at Rains Energy we use the “whole building approach.” This means that we take into consideration ALL of a buildings elements and then figure out how they can work together at MAXIMUM efficiency. As a result, we can show you how to develop a holistic approach that helps you achieve MAXIMUM ENERGY SAVINGS AT A MINIMAL COST. Our analysis includes but is not limited to:
- Health & safety
- Air leakage
- Insulation
- Heating and cooling efficiency
- Pumps and motors efficiency
- Water usage reduction
- Lighting
- Appliances
Energy Saving Evaluations:
Rains Energy’s energy saving evaluations clearly present opportunities to reduce energy costs through operational and capital improvements. To help guide you through the decision process we calculate energy/financial savings, payback, life cycle savings and solicit proposals from contractors to ensure that decisions are being made with concrete cost numbers.
The NYC Local Law 87 Compliance “mandates that buildings over 50,000 gross square feet undergo periodic energy audit and retro-commissioning measures, as part of the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan (GGBP),” (Mayor’s Office of Sustainability). The purpose of this law is to “inform building owners of their energy consumption through energy audits, which are surveys and analyses of energy use, and retro-commissioning, the process of ensuring correct equipment installation and performance,”(Mayor’s Office of Sustainability). Our detailed energy saving reports (when combined with our commissioning work) comply with LL87 and offer buildings compliances for this energy saving regulation.
Implementation:
If you decide to follow our recommendations. Rains Energy has a long and close working relationships with highly reliable and extremely skilled network of professionals who are knowledgeable in energy efficient practices.
Our company views this as a CRUCIAL component of IMPROVING energy efficiency.
We are also highly capable of analyzing financial options that could be available for you, which include incentives offered by utilities, federal, state and city governments.