CORPORATIONS
“EcoMotion helped us achieve our goals; Ted and his team provided highly valuable services as we went solar at our corporate center.”
– Dunson Cheng, Chairman and CEO, Cathay Bank
Overview
We begin with an investigation: your mission, your operations, footprint, aspirations and budget. Then we manage your projects from beginning to end to achieve your goals.
Sustainability Planning
Competition, regulatory pressure, consumer interest, and concern for the bottom line are forcing businesses not only to think, but to act greener than ever before. EcoMotion helps companies examine their footprints – in terms of energy, water, carbon, and other resources – to assess their options for smart energy management, and to then help them take next responsible steps toward sustainability.
We do this in lots of ways. From 2021 - 2023 EcoMotion served as the “eco-conscience” of a high-end, 40 condominium development in Lake Tahoe. EcoMotion guided the development team on the complex’s lifetime impact. A big focus was a high-up-front cost geo-exchange system. We addressed winter pool and spa use through operations and with design effective for covers. We advocated that each unit have battery energy resilience linked to its own vehicle-to-grid capable EV chargers. The complex featured circadian-rhythm lighting, living walls, and meditation.
For other clients, we have examined product lines through a sustainability lens from cradle to grave. We analyze operations through an energy lens. We craft corporate sustainability plans using facilitated input, developing goals and phase one activities. A country club project involves tree planting, HVAC upgrades, and solar. Working with clients, we define missions and set goals and then present strategies for action in sustainability.
Energy Efficiency Services
EcoMotion’s mantra is “Efficiency First!” It is usually the least-cost and most widely beneficial and least controversial step for all of our clients. Getting one’s house in order is inarguable and often invisible. For corporations keen on saving money, lessening the carbon footprint, improving air quality and productivity, our team begins with assessing facilities’ energy efficiency potentials. Nearly every site we have visited has room for improvement.
EcoMotion digs in at each site. What are its operating characteristics? What measures can be taken to lessen energy and demand and therms per square foot? Can lighting levels be reduced in certain areas? Is the space conditioning comfortable? What facility controls are in place, and do they need to be reprogrammed?
EcoMotion analyzes facilities technical potentials for efficiency and informs this analysis with analysis of costs and benefits, paybacks, and returns on investment. We present supply curves of efficiency measures, graphically depicting costs and savings values. We often recommend bundling lower and higher-cost measures for the deepest savings.
Distributed Energy
Resources
EcoMotion provides guidance to corporations with Distributed Energy Resources, notably distributed generation in the form of solar energy, and distributed storage in the form of lithium-ion battery storage systems. EcoMotion assists corporate clients in analyzing the value of these technologies.
EcoMotion’s solar team analyzes site conditions – roof “real estate,” ground-mount and solar-port opportunities – and a client’s power consumption profile to determine the financial offset, and thus project feasibility. Our solar team uses Energy Toolbase for solar financial analysis, using 15-minute interval data to best inform savings analyses of solar and storage scenarios. Our solar financial analyses often include rate changes to maximize consumer benefit. Energy storage can reduce demand charges and help avoid peak energy charges. Given federal, state, and regional incentives, as well as time-of-use rates, storage is growing in cost-effective applications. Other clients want to use their batteries for resilience.
Provided that the feasibility analysis shows positive results and the client is ready to go, EcoMotion is on hand to help through Procurement – defining the scope, finding a suitable contractor, contacting – and Project Oversight and Quality Control through final design, permitting, construction, and interconnection.
Utility Services
EcoMotion is rooted in utility services. Ted Flanigan worked as a Strategic Planner for the New York Power Authority and as Director of Energy Efficiency for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. For LADWP he designed a portfolio of efficiency programs to serve the utilities’ million residential customers, 180,000 business customers, 2,000 school sites, 21 colleges, and 3 refineries.
Ted Flanigan and his teams over the years have consulted for over 100 utilities. He ran an innovative demand response program for Pacific Gas and Electric, and for several years designed and managed community-based efficiency programs for Southern California Edison.
EcoMotion provides planning services and portfolio assessments of utilities’ energy efficiency and renewable energy programs and services. Steeped in best practices, we make policy and programmatic recommendations and support program implementation. We provide quality control, tracking and evaluation, solar system verification, and continuous commissioning services.