GridPoint @GridPoint

Creating more efficient buildings, more resilient grids and a more sustainable energy future for everyone. GridPoint.com Reston, VA Joined January 2010

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GridPoint @GridPoint

2 days ago

Pre-season audits aren't one-time. They're annual. A year of small drift between resets is enough to show up in the summer bill.

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Grid emissions intensity rises in summer when peaker plants come online. A kWh consumed at 4pm in August carries a higher Scope 2 footprint than the same kWh in March. Demand-side discipline during peaks does outsized emissions work.

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4 days ago

Pre-season energy prep at one site: a tune-up. At 500 sites: a logistics operation. The checklist isn't the hard part. The orchestration is. More in our piece next week.

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5 days ago

Pre-season prep at one site is a tune-up. At 500 sites, it's a logistics operation. The checklists are not interchangeable.

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6 days ago

Facility teams rarely get credit for the costs they prevent. The failures that didn't happen are most of the work.

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7 days ago

Find your two most-similar sites. Compare their energy use. If the gap is more than 10%, the better one is teaching you something. That's free portfolio playbook.

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a week ago

Reducing energy use at multi-site scale: the financial case and the climate case point the same direction. There aren't many categories where that's this clean.

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a week ago

Knowing your local peak utility window is the difference between paying retail for power and paying premium. Most multi-site portfolios have more flex in that window than they realize.

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a week ago

Two weeks out: our pre-season energy readiness checklist for multi-site portfolios. The summer itself is outside operators' control. The preparation isn't.

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2 weeks ago

An operator's "site" and the utility bill's "site" are not always the same thing. Getting that data model right is the precondition for any portfolio analytics that follow.

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2 weeks ago

Per the EPA, about 30% of energy in the average commercial building is wasted. Most of it is recoverable at no capital cost. Just visibility.

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2 weeks ago

Most multi-site portfolios will see July electricity costs 2–3× their June bill. Same buildings. Same equipment. Different demand profile.

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2 weeks ago

World Environment Day. Commercial buildings = ~16% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings overall (residential + commercial) = ~31%. The biggest lever inside those numbers isn't new technology. It's operational discipline. #WorldEnvironmentDay

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GridPoint @GridPoint

2 weeks ago

Every kWh you don't consume is a kWh you don't have to report under Scope 2. Reduction is cheaper than offset. Always has been.

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2 weeks ago

Small operational problems get cheap-priced in the spring. Under peak summer load, the same problems are 5–10× more expensive. The right time to close them is when they're still cheap.

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2 weeks ago

Five pre-summer moves for multi-site operators. None are capital projects: • Setpoint audit • Schedule audit • Pre-season HVAC inspection • DR enrollment • Baseline reporting All operational discipline. All higher-ROI than they look.

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3 weeks ago

June is the month before the worst month. What gets done now decides whether July and August are manageable or punishing.

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3 weeks ago

Failed walk-ins. HVAC issues during peak weekends. Persistent comfort problems. The brand absorbs the inconsistency regardless of who's at fault. The Sunday read, in case you missed our featured piece this week: hubs.la/Q04jrRbz0

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3 weeks ago

A first principle of multi-site work: the average obscures the outlier. Most multi-site reporting starts with averages. The best of it ends with outliers.

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3 weeks ago

Operators don't merely have an energy problem. They have an information problem that shows up on the energy bill. What they're waiting for is the information layer that tells them where, when, and why — at the unit level, and with ample time to act.