As a business committed to helping other Business achieve optimum energy savings, we have seen our clients benefit from Energy IoT- the implementation of IoT technology into the power systems of the buildings to optimize the efficiency of power infrastructure and decreases the energy wastage. This means that Energy IoT will connect and exchange the energy data within your building and send it to the cloud to enable your building’s energy to run in an efficient manner. With Energy IoT management systems, our clients have gained up to 25%* energy savings, lowered their carbon footprint, increased business performance. Find out how Energy IoT works for your business and the benefits it will bring:

How Does Energy IoT Work?

It is achieved by a network of sensors that have several applications, such as energy monitoring and demand-side Energy IoT. Devices with IoT features will to help to balance the power demand within your buildings. Consumers who are using it at off-peak times will save them big money.

Advantages of Energy IoT Management Systems

IoT allows process automation and functional efficiency in every industry such as retail, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, energy. IoT apps in the power sector grow special attention from
users, Business, and even among. Apart from the number of advantages to the energy supply chain, Energy IoT management systems give way to new smart grids that promise unprecedented savings, enhanced security, and improved efficiency. Energy IoT management systems have a wide range of advantages for all parts of the energy supply chain network, from power generation to the point when users pay their energy bills.

Features of the IoT apps include:

• Automated Processes
• Decrease in energy Bills
• Establish Health Use of Energy
• Optimize Preservation of Your Building Equipment
• Gain Visibility of Energy Consumption
• Cut Operational Costs
• Reduce Carbon Emissions

In order to equip your business with energy IoT and drive it towards digitalisation, the Smart
Automation Grant and Intervention fund (SAG) was launched by MITI to
encourage the adoption of automation for business owners and service
providers. This grant is awarded on a matching basis or 50% of total
eligible expenditures of up to maximum grant cap of RM1mil per
company. One of the SAG qualifications include meeting one of the
committed deliverables such as reducing man hours, an increase in
production volume and more. Learn how your business can qualify for SAG
through applications such as SOURCE, an energy performance
management system (EPMS).

Contact edge.contact@plus-solar.com.my to learn more about this grant and how SOURCE will get you
started on your journey towards digitalisation.

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As the pandemic continues to challenge Business, energy has been identified as one of the top expenses for Business. According to research conducted by experts, enhancing energy efficiency within buildings will help to minimize the cost of operational expenditure and generate business intelligence for business owners. The implementation of energy efficiency can take on many forms; from lighting installation to upgrading heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) systems. 

To implement energy efficiency, building operators can opt for building insulation and sealing, Power Factor Correction and a building energy management system. Energy efficiency measures will enable you to gain an understanding of your building’s energy consumption, lower your carbon footprint, establish your brand’s image, while reducing OPEX for your business during this time.

Being an industry leader in energy efficiency and an energy performance management system (EPMS) provider, find below the reasons of how your building benefit from this system: 

Get to Know Your Energy Consumption Pattern

With an EPMS, gain a high-level overview of your building’s energy consumption pattern, areas of where you are using the most power (peak zones), as well as the machinery  or processes that are contributing to this. Not to mention, by using the EPMS, you will be able to pinpoint the energy waste within your building through cloud computing and machine learning. 

Optimize the Building Energy to Decrease OPEX 

Every building has its own Power Factor – known as the measuring unit of efficient use of electricity. Measured on a range of 0 to 1.0, the higher the index (e.g., above 0.85 or 0.90) [1], the more efficient the level of energy usage. However, if the power factor ranges from under 0.85 or 0.90, it means that your building has an inefficient use of energy and there is a wastage of energy. 

The EPMS will show your active/reactive energy data that you will need to know about the power factor as the data represents the connection between an apartment and a real power.

Lower Your Maximum Demand (MD) Charges

The MD charge is known as the highest level of energy demand that is being monitored by your electricity distribution power monthly.[2] This demand is calculated in KW or KVA and recorded in a 30-minute interval. This MD charge plays a big role in your energy bills as it reflects how much energy was used by your building – which you may or may not be aware of. 

Due to the fact that building energy consumption is invisible, Plus Xnergy Edge’s SOURCE was created to help you monitor and manage your building’s energy, while reducing MD charges. Gain insights through SOURCE on how your business can reduce OPEX through the optimization of energy consumption, AIoT, cloud computing and machine learning. Contact edge.contact@plus-solar.com.my to learn more.

Sources

• TNB Kenya – Commercial & Industrial – Power Factor 
• TNB Kenya – Commercial & Industrial – Maximum Demand

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So, what are the differences between a Building EMS?

A building automation system or building management system is a computer-controlled system-installed in a building that monitors and controls the building’s mechanics, as well as electrical tools such as lighting, ventilation, power systems, security and fire systems.

On the other hand, a building energy management system (EMS) monitors and controls the building’s energy needs which includes heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC), lighting or security measures [1]

Key Differences Among Building EMS and BMS 

• BMS – The BMS is mainly about real time control, it steer control for the OS (Operating System), where it is not made to deal with  data history and data reporting.
• Building EMS – This system is a reporting and decision-making resource and tool. Business owners have a full dashboard record for energy data, possess the ability to track trends, as well as make critical and informed decisions. 

One key reason it must turn out to be difficult to differentiate among these two systems is because the functions of EMS are currently being added to several building management systems.

The BMS only enables buildings to control its mechanics, without giving the business owners any insights to the building’s energy data. In comparison to the building EMS, business owners or building operators are unable to discern whether the operations within the building systems should be adjusted and the reason behind these key actions. The importance of a building EMS for business owners continue to grow as it optimizes the building’s energy consumption, lowers your OPEX, gain instant ROI, improve your employees’ wellbeing, as well as the overall building performance. 

As energy management becomes increasingly significant to building operators and business owners, SOURCE, an energy performance management system (EPMS) by Plus Xnergy Edge, provides your organization with the ability to manage your energy consumption and convert the building’s energy data into savings. With SOURCE, turn the energy insights within your building into savings and business intelligence. 

For more on SOURCE, visit the website or contact edge.contact@plus-solar.com.my 

Sources

1. Climate Technology Centre & Network 

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In this conference, professionals were able to learn more about how they can focus and explore their relationship with ambition. As a clean energy solutionist, Plus Solar is committed to providing a safe, inclusive and healthy workplace. In fact, it is our mission to build a positive environment for talents to grow, innovate and impact the energy revolution, and that includes creating better gender balance.

The renewable energy (RE) industry has shown potential for business owners to achieve gender balance. According to IRENA – The seventh edition of Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review, RE jobs have shown more inclusion and a better gender balance than fossil fuels. The report highlights that women held 32 per cent of total renewables jobs, as opposed to 21 per cent in fossil fuels sectors.

Based on insights from industry leaders and research, the RE industry shows to be promising in terms of gender balance. While the race to an inclusive environment continues, Plus Solar is always working on a gender balance in our very own organization and we encourage Business to become part of this journey.

Join Plus Solar in making the business environment as well as the industry a more inclusive place for women to work in. 

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According to the World Economic Forum Agenda, the average building still wastes up to 50% of the energy it consumes. As a result, hundreds of organizations collect operational data that end up going to waste as it will sit in a server without being put to good use. 

One main reason for this phenomenon is the very operational data itself; can it be converted into business intelligence? Business owners are able to generate business intelligence from monitored energy data in real time which enables them to understand their energy usage and overall building performance. Not only will the business owners be able to conduct performance benchmarking but better business decision-making.

As the system generates and performs data collection, it does not lead to the most suitable management practices.  fine management. In order to convert your building energy data into energy savings and save on your operational costs, here are key items for business owners to take into account:

Aligning Incentives and Priorities

While you are keen to achieve power savings, but you cannot do it alone as you are likely relying on experience and action for several parties across many sites to achieve the desired optimized energy outcome. However, this is not the case as the people relay often on seeing your energy savings target as a much lower priority item then you would hope.

With detail and clear real time energy data, you can start to verify these claims. Real time energy data enables you to utilize reliable records, graphs and analytics to identify spots where you suspect enhancements can be made.

Optimizing Operations

Organizations and their building operate according to process and producers. This would reduce reliance on constant business decisions. These processes are constantly adjusted to optimize output and decrease costs.

Though in practice, this can be hard due to incorrect, imprecise, or unavailable data, without the correct data, sub-optimal or even harmful procedure that can persist for years.

With detailed real time energy data and the tools to analyze it, you can examine the real impact of your building energy management procedure. This allows you as the business owner to make intelligent decisions about how to optimize those procedures.

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Artificial Intelligence – How AI Enhances the Energy Efficiency of the Building

Currently, buildings play a key role in tackling climate change as they comprise nearly 40% of the global energy consumption. However, most building owners are not aware of the energy consumption  within their buildings is due to the absence of data as well as analysis tools. Even if there is the measurement, just 10 percent of the gathered data is utilized for making business decisions.

Analytics could substantially enhance productivity, for instance, a standard building energy performance management system.

AI or Artificial Intelligence is an advantageous way to form the complete potential of technological developments, including IoT (Internet of Things), which has been evolving in the business world. Iot gathered with AI can be utilized for analyzing and monitoring huge data sets in a seamless manner, helping business owners to save both money and energy.

Artificial Intelligence energy efficiency savings can go up to 30 percent without any impact on indoor conditions and comfort. In addition, the system assists in adjusting the air conditioning system procedures during the initiation stage to manage energy effectively. The AI building energy performance management system has an open app programming interface where other operators can utilize the data and create new services.

Summary of the Advantages of AI Energy Efficiency

• Monitors and analyze the power consumption and conditions of the building.
• Optimize indoor conditions and comfort. 
• Identify areas where enhancements can be made for energy and expense savings

Thoughts and Future Outlook

Clean energy continues to evolve financially and effectively towards improving and enhancing local and global corporate sustainability. As such, as clean energy becomes more liberalized, so will the demand to manage the building’s energy consumption. In recognition of this ever-growing phenomenon, AI is being integrated across main sectors of energy management, increasing the capacity of data analytics. 

As energy monitoring continues to become a topic of interest among business owners, SOURCE, an EMS by Plus Xnergy Edge, provides your organization with the ability to monitor your energy consumption and convert the building’s energy data into savings. Through SOURCE, an AIoT energy performance management system, turn the energy insights within your building into savings and business intelligence. 

For more on SOURCE, visit the website or contact edge.contact@plus-solar.com.my 

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Energy monitoring goals are built to provide users with info about their building consumption patterns that are carried out by utilizing an Energy Monitoring System (EMS). This system gathers energy consumption data, analyses it and then feeds necessary info back to the customers’ device. Building owners who utilize the EMS will be able to view their energy consumption, re-strategize the building’s energy data, leading them to make overall better business decisions.

The record of energy consumption is gathered through utilizing counters or sub-counters present within the property or in the building itself for every commodity consumed (gas, water, electricity and heat), which will offer you with an overview for better energy management.

Additional Features of a Smart EMS: 

1. Flag any issues in real-time and advise the building operators of the power-saving measures that need to be taken. 
2. Provide KPIs, such as pattern linking to specific spots of power consumption, the intensity of power usage, and other indicators that can be utilized in establishing targets for energy-saving.

Why an EMS is Necessary for Your Business: 

• Identify the wide energy usage from different sections  within each industry.
• Monitor and manage the power consumption in terms of Maximum Demand (MD),  voltage, current, energy factors, etc.
• Direct instances when energy consumption is unexpectedly lower or higher than as usual.
• Produce the power consumption report on a daily, weekly, and monthly format.
• Future energy management which includes cost-saving factors. 
• Identify areas of unnecessary energy usage. 

Advantages of Energy Monitoring as a Whole:

• With the EMS, live monitoring of energy usage in different areas of the industry is completely possible. In addition, there are real-time and historical features that can analyze the power consumption. 
• It is possible with an EMS to enhance power usage by analyzing the alterations in power consumption. Also, the EMS informs business operators of the unnecessary power usage by comparing previous with the current needs of energy consumption.

As energy monitoring continues to become a topic of interest among business owners, SOURCE, an EMS by Plus Xnergy Edge, provides your organization with the ability to monitor your energy consumption and convert the building’s energy data into savings. Through SOURCE, an AIoT energy performance management system, turn the energy insights within your building into savings and business intelligence. 

For more on SOURCE, visit the website or contact edge.contact@plus-solar.com.my 

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As a clean energy solutions provider, we wanted to take the time during this significant day to address the topic of energy wastage. Buildings consume nearly 40% of the global energy demand, however, an average building still wastes up to 50% of the energy it consumes. 

With this in mind, business owners can utilise solutions to lower their building energy consumption, but the question is how?

In light of the need for a lower-carbon environment, research and experts continue to point towards clean energy to curb this energy wastage and less dependency on fossil fuels. Furthermore, companies such as Facebook and Verizon have been pivoting towards solar, which showcases how solar is still being seen as a scalable and rapidly deployable solution during this pandemic.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the total global use of renewable energy (RE) is estimated to rise by about 1% in 2020. Despite the supply chain disruptions that have caused the installation of RE to delay, the expansion of solar, wind and hydropower is expected to help renewable electricity generation to rise by nearly 5% in 2020. While this growth was smaller than the predictions made before COVID-19, RE is expected to grow, making renewables the most resilient source to the pandemic. 

Singled out by the UN, clean energy has been identified to lower the current level of greenhouse emissions that will not only curb the upcoming effects of climate change but provide more affordable energy for communities. As energy contributes 60% to the current level of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), many corporations and Business have committed to minimising their carbon footprint as much as possible, with clean energy. In the form of solar and wind, clean energy does not emit any associated air pollution emissions, therefore making them a sustainable, convenient and forward-thinking approach to accessing a basic human need with no impact on the environment.

Sustainable initiatives such as the implementation of clean energy will be a key factor for Business to move forward as the environmental impact of climate change continues to wage on.

As organisations, we can start standing up to the effects of climate change by making small adjustments such as minimising our daily use of paper, plastic and aluminium, or just even staying informed of how companies have implemented the United Nations-Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

Let us stop the effects of climate change and let us do it together. 

Join Plus Solar in recognising Global Climate Action Day as we work towards lowering the global carbon footprint for a better future.

Editor’s Note: With our mission to fundamentally change the way the average user consumes and reshapes energy, one community at a time, we commit ourselves to ensure our customers can thrive with the supply of clean energy.

To fulfil society’s every need for clean energy, Plus Solar provides clean energy solutions integrated with a state-of-the-art technology approach and cost-effective financing options.

Sources:

1.     World Energy Council Resources Report
2.     World Economic Forum Agenda
3.     Fridays For Future
4.     International Energy Agency
5.     World Bank 

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An EPMS or EMS is a system computer-aided tool utilized by controllers of energy utility grids to manage, optimize and control the performance of the generation and transmission system. This system monitors and controls power consuming devices, like your fans, air conditioning (AC) units, lighting, and dampers.

Investing in a completely functional system might be an upfront investment, but over the year will decrease utility bills costs, overall spending and even boost your business’s ROI.

Four Best Advantages of Installing an EPMS

Improve Employee’s Wellbeing
When an employee is in a comfortable workplace, research shows that one’s overall well-being and productivity are enhanced. Both consistent temperature and lighting control will make the space more energy efficient for all, improving the employee’s performance and happiness.

Lower Your OPEX
If anything, the EPMS allows you to significantly decrease utility rates all across the board, which includes cooling, heating, water and lighting. The EPMS tracks detailed usage over time and stores it within its digital repository, centralized, so you will always have access to your building’s history of energy data. This will let you budget better for your building’s energy usage based on time, weather and more.

Instant ROI
The EPMS with the built-in cost-saving functions, include emitting less energy during peak times, producing revenue generation plans and identifying energy leaks. With these benefits, as a business owner, you are guaranteed an instant ROI when installing an EPMS.

Enhance Overall Building Performance
Not only does will this platform enhance the wellbeing and performance of your employees, but enhances the building performance as well. By decreasing energy waste as well as operating costs, you are naturally marking more space in your budget for other sections of business, like promotions, salaries, marketing and product spends.

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1)     Reduce Your Operational Costs by 50%*

As clean energy is no longer a stranger to the nation, local authorities have released strategies and initiatives to encourage a higher uptake of solar within the business community. With these initiatives such as tax allowances: Green Investment Tax Allowance (GITA), Capital Allowance (CA) and more, business owners are able to achieve lower operational costs as solar energy has enabled a reduction of 50%* off their electricity bills. In light of the economic effects of COVID-19, business owners are continuously looking for ways to cut their bottom-line expenses and solar enables you to do just that.

2)    Solar Panels are Constantly Evolving

Due to the advancement of technology and the increase in demand, the price of solar panels has become more affordable. In addition, due to the massive global adoption of solar PV systems, manufacturing costs have lowered, contributing to the affordability. As such, solar has become more accessible to individuals in terms of pricing, investments and green financing solutions. To bridge the gap in accessibility, financial institutions are increasingly highlighting and building upon their green financing solutions, to provide more accessibility for Business to invest in clean energy.

3)    Lower Your Carbon Footprint

In light of the need for a lower carbon environment, experts continue to urge the need for more clean energy options and less dependency on fossil fuels. As such, solar energy has emerged as a scalable and rapidly deployable. In time to come, sustainability initiatives such as the implementation of clean energy will be a key factor for Business to move forward as the environmental impact of climate change continues to wage on.

4)     Operation and Maintenance (O&M)

In order to ensure your solar PV system continues to generate optimum energy as much as possible, it is important to emphasize the operation and maintenance (O&M) service that comes with investing in solar. As solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have a power output warranty of 25 years, Business would want to future-proof their investment. If the system were to undergo technical difficulties or need a change in parts, as a service provider we provide comprehensive operation and maintenance (O&M) services.

With all these benefits that solar energy has provided to Business, it is important to ensure you work with a service provider that understands your consumption needs as well as how to optimize the solar PV systems in the long run. Buildings consume nearly 40% of the global energy demand, however, an average building still wastes up to 50% of the energy it consumes.

Recognising that buildings consume a large portion of the global energy consumption; the business abides by the Energy Trilogy which consists of Energy Generation, Energy Efficiency and Energy Storage. The founders of the business were inspired to provide a variety of solutions in the form of solar PV systems and energy efficiency solutions. In addition to installing solar PV systems that fulfill the Energy Generation concept, the business satisfies its Energy Efficiency concept by incorporating smart energy management solutions that further improve the user’s energy consumption through its technological development division.

In order to sustain the customer’s energy data and improve overall performance, the business improves the building’s energy with SOURCE, an AIoT energy performance ecosystem that turns your energy insights into savings and business intelligence. For more on SOURCE, visit the website.

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Sources:

• Plus Solar – Commercial
• Plus Solar – NEM
• Clean Technica – “Building Resiliency With Renewable Energy: A Look At ZOLA Electric’s Efforts To Combat COVID-19 Through Expanded Energy Access”
• United Nations (UN)
• WilmingtonBiz Insights – “Energy Efficiency, Smart Building Technology Paramount To Global Business”
• World Energy Council Resources Report
• World Economic Forum Agenda

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