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DDC lab controls save new biology building 535,000 Kwh, 68Kw/yr. (direct digital controllers)
NEW HAVEN, Conn.--Direct digital controllers that provide variable air volume ventilation in laboratories air volume ventilation in laboratories at Yale University's new molecular biology building here are expected to cut the facility's annual electricity consumption by 535,000 kilowatt hours (kwh) and demand by up to 68 kilowatts (kw).
installed at an incremental cost of $310,000, the laboratory air flow setback controls should reduce utility bills by $42,000 a year at the 86,000-square-foot Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology, according to Victor Boed, Yale's manager of plant engineering. The research facility is expected to open next July.
United Illuminating Co., the local electric utility, granted a rebate of $80,400 for the controls project under its Energy Blueprint new construction rebate program. After the rebate, the controls will pay for themselves in five …
