Prepared for the Cool $ense Integrated Chiller Retrofit Workshop
July 15, 1999, Oakland Federal Building, Oakland, CA
by Lisa Gartland, PositivEnergy, Oakland, CA
Airtech Mechanical, Inc.
3269 Seldon Court, Fremont, CA 94539 Contact: Tom Davis Telephone: (510) 651-1800 Email: tdavis@ix.netcom.com Fax: (510) 651-6117Aloha Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 32, Villa Grande, CA 95486-0032 Contact: Dr. Mark Shirilau Telephone: (707) 865-2318 or (800) 52-ALOHA Fax: (707) 865-2437 Email: AlohaSys@aol.comAloha Systems specializes in measruement and verification of energy efficiency programs, systems, and installation, as well as power quality evaluation and problem mitigation. As professional engineers, licensed contractors, academic researchers, and former utility employees, we combine theoretical and hands-on approaches for quality balanced service.
Amtech Lighting Services
1266 14th Street, Oakland, CA 94607 Contact: Joe Murnin, CLMC, Northwest Regional Manager Telephone: (510) 832-0512 Email: jmurnin@abm.com Fax: (510) 834-9409 Web site: www.abm.com/frames/familyAmtech Lighting Services is a full service lighting maintenance, lighting retrofit and lighting design company with offices throughout the U.S.. We provide complete energy audits with detailed space by space recommendations. We provide installation of energy efficient lighting products. We can finance lighting retrofits with very reasonable finance charges.
APP-TECH Inc.
235 Blackburn Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060-4932 Telephone: (831) 458-0485 Web site: www.app-techinc.comAPP-TECH Incorporated (APP-TECH) is a firm specializing in assisting clients on issues related to Energy Efficient Building Design and Commercial Lighting Design. We have been in business since 1982 and are located in Santa Cruz, California, USA. Our associates can provide many of the Architectural/Engineering services you may need to augment your building design projects. These services include the integrated design of energy efficient HVAC, Plumbing, and Electrical systems for Residential and Commercial buildings.
Architectural Energy Corporation (AEC)
2540 Frontier Ave., Suite 201, Boulder, CO 80301 Contact: Mark Kostovny, Marketing Manager Telephone: (800) 450-4454 Email: mkostovny@archenergy.com Fax: (303) 444-4304 Web site: http://www.archenergy.com/Architectural Energy Corporation (AEC) is a unique engineering firm concerned with energy, buildings, and the environment. The firm specializes in energy conservation research, efficient HVAC design consulting, building performance diagnostics, energy and resource planning, custom energy software, short-term monitoring & verification of energy savings, and computer modeling of buildings. AEC also manufactures and markets the ENFORMA‘ Portable Diagnostic Solutions package for HVAC system diagnostics and the MicroDataLogger‘ portable data acquisition system.
Association of Energy Engineers, Bay Area Chapter
Contact: Ken Moore Telephone: (415) 460-0460 Email: krmoore@jps.net Web site: http://www.aee-sf.org/AEE Bay Area Chapter serves as a unique forum for the discussion of energy issues and concerns. It provides common professional meeting ground for facility managers, design and specifying engineers, utility and vendor representatives and energy researchers to participate in vigorous peer-to-peer dialogue, learning and group discussion. Emphasis is placed on: assessing the applicability of emerging technologies, and improving the performance and reliability of current technologies. Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of the month. All interested persons are welcome to attend, participate and join the Chapter.
Association of Energy Engineers, Silicon Valley Chapter
Contact: Virginia Waik, President Telephone: (650) 329-2680 Email: Virginia@aeesiliconvalley.org Web site: www.aeesiliconvalley.orgAEE - Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization of energy and environmental engineering professionals located in the HEART of Silicon Valley - South of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. We are devoted to energy efficiency, energy conservation and environmental issues. We meet on the third Thursday of the month - every other month, starting in September and extending through May of every year. For more information about our chapter, read our current newsletter, come to our next meeting, and become an active member. Remember, professional involvement is good for you and your profession.
Bay City Mechanical, Inc.
P.O. Box 11332, San Rafael, CA 94912 Contact: Helge Theiss-Nyland, President Telephone: (510) 233-7000 Email: htheissnyl@aol.com Fax: (510) 233-7042 Web site: www.baycitymech.comBay City Mechanical, Inc. has the financial strength, technical ability and competitive stature to successfully complete many of the most challenging mechanical projects. Our services are available for both Commercial and Residential projects: HVAC, Architectural Sheetmetal, Pipe Fitting, Temperature Control and Service, Field Installation, Design Review, Construction Management and Design Engineering. Commerical projects include office buildings, retail space and warehouses, with services for new construciton, extensive repair, restoration and remodel and seismic retrofit.
Berkeley Applied Science and Engineering, Inc. (BASE)
5 Third Street, Suite 530, San Francisco, CA 94103 Contact: Ahmad Ganji Telephone: (415) 543-1600 Email: arg@baseco.com Fax: (415) 543-1601 Web site: www.baseco.comBerkeley Applied Science and Engineering, Inc. (BASE) is a consulting engineering firm providing energy efficiency and utilization, and industrial waste minimization services to the industry. We have provided engineering services since 1987. Our services include comprehensive energy and waste assessment of manufacturing and commercial facilities, utility rate assessment, measurement and verification for standard performance contracts, and training. We have participated and directed over two hundred energy and waste assessments of commercial and industrial facilities and processes. Our experience encompass a wide variety of facilities including restaurants, food service facilities, green houses, and manufacturing plants in the full SIC spectrum.
Bevilacqua-Knight, Inc.
501 Fourteenth Street, Suite 200, Oakland, CA 94612 Contact: Dan Aumann Telephone: (510) 444.8707 Email: daumann@bki.com Fax: (510) 444.2072 Web site: www.bki.comBKI engineers help clients evaluate advanced end-use technologies and create strategic plans for their commercialization, with an aim to reduce building operating costs and increase occupant comfort. For this, we draw on experience gained through surveying millions of square feet of residential, commercial, and industrial facilities. Techniques range from simple analysis to bin simulations and comprehensive building models using DOE-2, the hourly analysis program.
Brown, Vence & Associates, Inc. (BVA)
65 Battery Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94111-5528 Contact: Leslie Kramer, Energy Services Manager Telephone: (415) 434-0900 Fax: (415) 956-6220 Web site: http://www.brownvence.com/Brown, Vence & Associates is one of the leading resource management consulting companies in California, with offices in San Francisco and Roseville, California. They provide technical assistance in areas including: auditing energy use or other utilities; reviewing new construction guidelines to optimize energy efficiency; using client-owned resources to generate renewable power; designing energy-efficient lighting; analyzing HVAC systems, central plants, or thermal energy storage; simulating building energy use; conducting feasibility studies for cogeneration projects; auditing utility bills, selecting new providers and preparing applications for utility rebates.
Building Owners and Managers Association
BOMA Oakland/East Bay 1000 Broadway, Suite 355, Oakland, CA 94607 Contact: Walter Finch Telephone: (510) 893-8780 Fax: (510) 893-3516The mission of the Building Owners and Managers Association International is to enhance the human, intellectual and physical assets of the commercial real estate industry through advocacy, education and information. BOMA provides a network forum for industry professionals to discuss mutual problems, exchange ideas and share experience and knowledge. BOMA International represents 84 United States, ten Canadian, and nine overseas associations in Australia, Brazil, Finland, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and South Africa. BOMA's North American membership represents a combined total of more than six billion square feet of office space.
Building Science Resource Group
119 Hancock Street, San Francisco State: CA Zip Code: 94114 Contact: Mark Hydeman, Executive Director Telephone: (415) 255-1192 Email: hydeman@buildingscience.org Fax: (415) 255-1193 Web site: http://www.buildingscience.orgThe Building Science Resource Group (BSRG) is a non-profit corporation formed to provide educational, information technology and technical consulting services that support the construction and operation of energy efficient buildings. Clients for these services include design professionals such as architects and engineers, building owners and operators, utilities administering energy efficiency programs, and energy services companies. BSRG's specific products and services include: educational programs in the end-use areas of building shell design; lighting, HVAC and building performance measurement; building analysis software programs and management; new construction and retrofit design guidance; website development, strategic planning and information management for technical content, delivery channels, and applications software; project management and administration.
California Board for Energy Efficiency (CBEE)
505 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102 Contact: Alison Saunders Telephone: (415) 703-2168 Email: admin@cbee.org Fax: (415) 703-2200 Web site: www.cbee.orgIn April of 1997, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) created an independent Policy Advisory Board, (CBEE) to develop an organization and process to oversee the development and delivery of a new generation of energy efficiency programs to transform energy markets and help create self sustaining markets for energy efficiency product and service providers. Programs offer a wide variety of intervention strategies ranging from information on contract leads at web sites, to training and assistance courses for energy service contractors to cash rebates for more efficient HVAC systems for small businesses.
Cal-Air, Inc.
1555 South Seventh Street, San Jose, California 95112 Contact: Ken Petro, Senior Vice President Telephone: (408) 283-2300 Email: kpetro@calair.com Fax: (408) 293-9511 Web site: www.calair.comCal-Air's engineers, designers and CAD professionals develop practical, cost effective solutions to any mechanical system design. Cal-Air also has years of experience installing every type of mechanical system in virtually every type of building. Can provide the engineering, estimating, project management, and field teams to meet the requirements.
Carrier Corporation
10810 Bigge Street, San Leandro, CA 94577-1100 Contact: Robert Levi, P.E. - Sales Engineer Telephone: (510) 563-5700 Email: robert.f.levi@carrier.utc.com Fax: (510) 563-5733 Web site: http://www.carrier-commercial.com/Manufacturer of chillers, air handlers, packaged units, split systems, controls and residential HVAC eauipment, Carrier provides system retrofit and service of all HVAC equipment. They also offer financing and performance contracting.
CellNet Data Systems, Inc.
125 Shoreline Drive, San Carlos, CA Contact: Bob Brown, Sales Manager Telephone: (925) 543-1084 Email: rbrown@cellnet.com Web site: www.cellnet.comCellNet Data Systems is an industry pioneer and leading provider of low-cost "telemetry services" , defined as the ability to transmit and receive data for the remote monitoring and control of devices such as electric and gas meters. CellNet networks are the largest & fastest-growing of their kind in the world, providing connectivity for millions of devices in the energy industry and othe rmarkets.
CommAir Mechanical Services
1266 14th Street, Oakland, CA 94607 Contact: Jack Lofy, President Telephone: (510) 839-1050 Facx: (510) 763-4159 Web site: www.abm.com/frames/familyOffers preventative and guaranteed HVAC maintenance programs for commercial and industrial facilities. Provides 24-hour emergency service, repair and major overhaul for all brands of equipment. Performs system modifications, retrofits and equipment replacement.
DataMasters of Danville
664 Diablo Road, Danville, CA 94526 Contact: Walt Leaman, President Telephone: (925) 831-9639 Email: leaman@dnai.com Fax: (925) 820-6915 Web site: oakridgeventures.comWe offer a custom software program called L.A.M.P.S. (Lighting Audits Made Plain & Simple) to assist other companies in the performance of lighting audits, retrofit design and installation. This program is available for sale or lease. We also offer auditing and construction management services to the lighting retrofit industry.
Davis Energy Group
123 C Street, Davis, CA 95616 Contact: Mark Berman, Principal, Business Development Telephone: (530) 753-1100 Email: deg@davisenergy.com Web site: www.davisenergy.comOur work encompasses efficient cooling, heating, and building systems, including system analysis, design, controls, simulations, product development, and technology transfer. We often serve as both a bridge and a filter for emerging technologies, moving between the ideals of theory and the realities of application. With an expansive array of public and private sector clients and experience covering multiple disciplines, we offer the resources to handle a wide variety of projects. Clients turn to us for practical solutions to building comfort and energy efficiency challenges.
The Deringer Group
1349 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94702 Contact: Joe Deringer Telephone: (510) 843-9000 Email: jderinger@deringergroup.com Fas: (510) 843- 9005 Web site: www.deringergroup.comThe Deringer Group providcs building design assistance and energy analyses using DOE-2 and other tools. They have assisted ASHRAE, the US federal government, several states and 10 countries in developing and implementing energy efficient building codes. Training in energy efficiency is also a focus of TDG. They present concepts using examples and case studies to help participants quickly understand and apply new knowledge to real situations. They also have also designed an energy training software package called "Eco-Advisor".
DukeSolutions
2420 Camino Ramon, Suite 225, San Ramon, CA 94583 Contact: Karl Gee, Senior Market Manager, Western Region Telephone: (925) 327-7300 Email: kxgee@duke-energy.com Fax: (925) 327-7310 Web site: www.dukesolutions.comDuke Solutions supplies electricity, as well as having a full complement of energy and engineering services, financial services, HVAC and lighting products and services. They offer just about everything under the sun including Solar Thermal Electric.
Electro-Test Inc. (ETI)
3470 Fostoria Way, Suite A, San Ramon, CA 94583 Contact: Jay Raggio, Manager, Energy ServicesElectro-Test Inc. possesses a core expertise in Measurement and Verification (M&V) of energy consumption and savings through accurate field testing and data analysis protocols. Its staff of energy professinals can provide entire implementation of the currently available Standard Performance Contract utility incentive programs. Other services include secondary to primary voltage service upgrades, facility energy audits, energy project cost and technical feasibility assessesments and energy project management.
Eley Associates
142 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 Contact: Erik Kolderup, Vice President Telephone: (415) 957-1977 Email: kolderup@eley.com Fax: (415) 957-1381 Web site: www.eley.comEley Associates specializes in building energy simulation and system optimization studies. We analyze central plant options using our VisualDOE software and its Plant Only version. The energy cost impact of equipment selection and system operation can be determined. Eley Associates also performs whole-building analysis and design, covering HVAC, lighting and envelope systems. Clients include architects, engineers, owners, as well as large organizations such as the California Energy Commission, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Southern California Edison.
Energy Alliance
Contact: Walt Leaman Telephone: (925) 820-6890 Web site: http://www.oakridgeventures.com/The Bay Area Energy Alliance makes sense for individuals looking to network and increase his/her knowledge, understanding and marketability within the energy industry, and for any business seeking to increase its sales within the energy industry. Members come from all types of businesses and organizations affected by the generation, distribution, sale and use of energy who wish to expand their contact base within the industry. Allied Membership is also open to any governmental agency, environmental organization, or citizen watchdog group.
Energy Resource Associates
1626 Homes Street, Livermore, CA 94550 Contact: Jim Waltz Telephone: (925) 447-1140 Email: information@eraenergy.com Fax: (925) 447-1706 Web site: http://www.eraenergy.com/ERA is currently the sole performance contracting consultant to the State of California and the Owner's Representative for the San Francisco Unified School District's $22 million performance contract. Among the performance contracting services we provide are: in-house staff training and education; ESCo RFQ development; selection and management of ESCo's; contract drafting and negotiations; program management, including design review, installation inpsection, etc.; commissioning; measurement & verification; remediation of failed/failing projects; and when all else fails, expert testimony.
Energy Retrofit Group
4120 Birch Street #122, Newport Beach, CA 92660 Contact: Cliff Kernochan, President Telephone: (949) 955-0700 Email: energyrg@concentric.net Fax: (949) 752-1139The Energy Retrofit Group performs lighting & electrical energy saving upgrades. We supply lighting products wholesale, hold an electrical contracting C-10 license and provide additional services such as lighting & lamp maintenance, engineering and lighting design, energy audits and project financing.
Energy Solutions
3726 Linwood Ave, Oakland, CA 94602 Contact: Sam Cohen, President Telephone: 510-482-8386 Email: sam@energy-solution.com Fax: 510-482-8386 Web site: energy-solution.comEnergy Solutions designs energy efficiency programs for utilities and works closely with customers on implementation of projects. On the customer side, we help develop overall energy efficiency strategies for clients and then help develop and manage projects. Energy Solutions is currently providing this service to PG&E for all its large facilities. On the utility side, we design and implement energy efficiency programs and can help customers choose between and apply for funding from different energy efficiency programs.
Enron Energy Services
12647 Alcosta Blvd., Suite 500, San Ramon, CA 94583 Telephone: (925) 543-3500 Email: info@enron.com Fax: (925) 543-3550 Web site: www.ees.enron.comEnron Energy Services provides integrated energy facility outsourcing solutions to commercial and industrial businesses on a national basis. Enron's unique approach to energy delivery and management allows customers to focus critical resources on their core business while Enron manages their energy and facility costs. To help your company keep its competitive edge, Enron Energy Services is offering targeted energy and facility solutions that can combine commodities, capital, energy assets management, energy information management and facility management. Our outsourcing package is supported by full-service, in-house engineering and construction capabilities.
Gabel Dodd/EnergySoft
100 Galli Drive, Suite 1, Novato, CA 94949 Contact: Martin Dodd Telephone: (415) 883-5900 Email: support@energysoft.com Fax (415) 883-5970 Web site: www.energysoft.comGabel Dodd/EnergySoft provides software and consulting services for residential and commercial building analysis. With over 15 years of experience in the analysis of building energy use, our company provides a complete spectrum of analysis services. This same experience is reflected in our software products, which bring leading edge analysis tools onto your desktop.
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
15 Shattuck Square, Suite 215, Berkeley, CA 94708 Contact: Abby Young, CCP Director Telephone: (510) 540-8843 Email: iclei_usa@iclei.org Fax: (510) 540-4787 Web site: www.iclei.org/USWork with local governments which have made a commitment to reduce global warming pollution from their communities. ICLEI provides training concerning topics such as building and process energy efficiency, transportation, air quality, waste management, green purchasing, etc as well as quantification; develops and circulates case studies and other publications, awards grants to achieve goals, and promotes public awareness about climate protection.
KW Energy Engineering
175 Filbert Street, Suite 205, Oakland, CA 94607-2541 Contact: Jim Kelsey Telephone: (510) 834-6420 Email: info@kw-energy.com Fax: (510) 834-6373 Web site: www.kw-energy.comKW Energy Engineering is an independent provider of energy efficiency consulting services. The company provides the following engineering services: energy efficiency scoping studies, investment-grade energy audits, simulation and modeling, building energy tune-ups / recommissioning, measurement and verification (M&V) of energy savings, third party review of performance contracting, utility-sponsored standard performance contracts, architectural and mechanical design review, energy efficiency research.
Linford Service Company
2850 Poplar Street, Oakland, CA 94608 Contact: Richard Almini, President Telephone: (510) 834-1082 Email: ralmini@linford.com Fax: (510) 834-8642 Web site: http://www.linford.com/Properly maintained HVAC equipment contributes to the success of every property. Linford's pro-active maintenance technology is geared to integrate information on mechanical equipment, energy use and service histories. Some of the features of our work are: Fully Guaranteed Maintenance, Performance Service Standards, Site Documentation, Owner Investment Protection, Minimized Failures and Downtime, Prolonged Equipment Life.
Marina Mechanical
23188 Foley Street, Hayward, California 94545 Contact: Ted Hussey Telephone: (510) 786-3500 Email: thussey@marinam.com Fax: (510) 732-6904 Web site: www.team-marina.comMarina's work goes beyond designing, installing and maintaining HVAC systems to all aspects of energy and environmental management. We call this comprehensive new approach Total Environmental Asset Management or T.E.A.M. MARINA. The definition of Total Environmental Asset Management differs. Depending on your needs we offer to: Monitor and manage all of your facilities energy-related operating costs, Maintain and document a defensible standard of indoor air quality, For a group of clients, we could offer large volumes of electricity on the open market, Purchase and operate a customer's energy related assets, leasing back conditioned air and watts of light.
McQuay International
2568 Barrington Court, Hayward, CA 94545 Contact: David Martin, Regional Sales Manager Telephone: (510) 786-4161 Email: dave.martin@mcquay.com Fax: (510) 786-4216 Web site: http://www.mcquay.com/Experts on integrated retrofits of airside and waterside HVAC systems to save energy, reduce and eliminate CFC's and HCFC's (R-22 and R-123 are being phased out also - price & availability?), improve comfort, reduce sound, improve indoor air quality, and control maintenance costs.
National Energy Choice (NEChoice)
1730 Franklin Street, Suite 201, Oakland, CA 94612 Telephone: (510) 874-1426 Email: rbutler@nechoice.com Fax: (510) 874-1428 Web site: www.nechoice.comNational Energy Choice is a new energy firm in California. Significant activity continues in California. Dozens of customers have signed up with National Energy Choice, and discussions are underway with suppliers to negotiate the best possible comprehensive deal for customers. A supplier deal is expected to be announced in the next few months. Among the customers signed up are the California Glass Association and the California Association of Non-profits. National Energy Choice offers to: get buying power to obtain the best-priced energy, see recognizable savings on your energy bills, continue reliability of supply and delivery of electric power and natural gas, services tailored to your energy requirements, professional energy management by experienced industry leaders, accurate day-to-day energy monitoring for maximum efficiency.
Newcomb Anderson Associates
755 Sansome, Suite 500, San Francisco CA 94111 Telephone (415) 434 2600 Email: email@newcombanderson.com Fax (415) 434 2321 Web site: www.newcombanderson.comNewcomb Anderson Associates is a consulting engineering firm specializing in energy efficiency analysis and design. Newcomb Anderson Associates has a broad base of technical expertise and experience in energy engineering to provide a wide variety of energy efficiency services, including: Energy project scoping studies, ASHRAE level II and III energy efficiency studies, Heating and cooling load simulations, Electric and thermal load studies, Energy program review, Power generation and off-peak cooling feasibility studies, New design review for energy efficiency, Complete project design and specification, Construction assistance, Commissioning, Pre- and post-project monitoring and verification, Project verification site surveys, Training of client technical staff
New Energy Ventures (NEV)
1333 North California Boulevard, Suite 470, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 Contact: Scott Sullivan Telephone: (925) 256-7200 Fax: (925) 256-7274 Web site: http://www.newenergy.com/New Energy Ventures' Energy Services Team delivers comprehensive savings solutions based on your company's specific operating needs. Our approach is simple and straightforward. First, we'll examine your current energy using systems, facility operations and maintenance processes. Next, we'll identify options for savings and improvements. Then we'll implement the optimum set of solutions to increase profitability, overall efficiency and systems performance for your company. In addition to implementing energy efficiency measures, we can incorporate improvements sures, in electrical systems, power quality, energy facilities O & M.
North Coast SolarResources
1468 Funston Drive, Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Contact: Brian Hines, President Telephone: (707) 575 3999 Email: brian@ncsr.com Fax: (707) 575 3525 Web site: www.ncsr.comEnergy consulting and contracting. Consulting services include Title 24 energy calculations, energy audits, energy bill auditing, and project management. Contracting services include solar electric systems, lighting conversions, boiler controls, power management metering, TECOGEN Cogeneration, TECOCHILL Nnatural gas cooling, and FAFCO thermal energy storage.
Pacific Energy Center
851 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Contact: Jim Chace, Director Telephone: (415) 973-7268 Email: JRCA@pge.com Fax: (415) 896-1290 Web site: www.pge.com/pecThe Pacific Energy is a service offered by Pacific Gas and Electric. The components of this program include: Educational Programs are offered addressing energy efficient design and application of new technologies for building envelope, lighting, HVAC; Toolbox includes a variety of design and measurement tools including lighting mock-up spaces, the heliodon sun shading table, hand-held building systems measurement devices and many others; Advisors include an architect, HVAC mechanical engineer, lighting engineer and other experts; Energy Information Resources produces factsheets, technical bulletins, case studies and a wide variety of useful publications about energy efficiency in building design and construction and the CoolTools chiller information project.
Pacific Gas & Electric
Contact: Business Energy Efficiency Resource Center Telephone: (800) 468-4743 Web site: www.pge.com/customer_services/business/PG&E offers numerous energy efficiency services. Programs to boost energy efficiency in your business include CustomNet, SmarterEnergy, Express Efficiency, New Construction, Business Edge, PG&E's Food Service Technology Center, Standard Performance Contract, PowerSaving Partners, and our Off-Peak Cooling and Pump Testing services. These services are available for business owners, managers, operators and designers of commercial buildings, facilities and equipment in Northern and Central California.
Pacific Gas & Electric Energy Services
345 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
Telephone: (888) 743-3900 Email: feedback@pgees.com Web site: www.pgees.comPG&E Energy Services is the leading, unregulated retail energy services company serving commercial and industrial businesses and institutions. They offer the following products & services: evaluation of your energy operations, at one facility or many; energy management products and upgrades for lighting, heating and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration systems, compressed air systems, waste heat recovery systems, energy management control systems, motor systems, and industrial process systems, Bright Lights lighting retrofit product, on-site facility evaluation and lighting analysis, customized lighting system solution, and no-risk, no out-of-pocket financing.
PositivEnergy
397 51st Street, Oakland, CA 94609 Contact: Dr. Lisa Gartland Telephone: (510) 595-7674 Email: positivenergy@california.com Fax: (510) 595-7232PositivEnergy is a consulting firm dedicated to promoting community energy conservation through application, demonstration and education. PositivEnergy works to not only implement a new technology, but to teach everyone along the way how it works and what its benefits are. Specialty areas are energy conservation in commercial and residential buildings, integrated chiller retrofits and urban heat island reduction strategies.
Prime Mechanical, Inc.
1460 Tully Road, #607, San Jose, CA 95122 Contact: Matthew Baker Telephone: (408) 995-6316 Email: mattb@primemechanical.com Fax: (408) 995-6618 Web site: www.primemechanical.comWhen it comes to decisions about replacement, retrofit, renovation, preventive maintenance, and other issues and practices for your HVAC equipment, Prime Mechanical can make the right choices for your comfort system. Prime Mechanical is experienced in a wide range of mechanical equipment installation and service applications. We are up to date with the latest HVAC system technology as well as the ever changing environmental issues that you face today. A Prime Mechanical customer is backed by over 100 years of field service. This is supported with some 50 years of sales and installation engineering expertise. We've gone to exhaustive lengths to find out what it is consumers want in an air conditioning contractor. It is customer service!
Proven Alternatives
1740 Army Street, San Francisco, CA 94124 Contact: Christopher Condy, President Telephone : (415) 285-0800 Web site: www.provenalternatives.comProven Alternatives, founded in 1991, is now the nation’s largest independent energy management company with offices strategically located from coast to coast. The company has successfully installed energy management and lighting maintenance projects valued at over $150,000,000 for 6,600 customers in nearly 17,000 facilities throughout the country. The staff of 250 energy professionals provides expertise in Total Energy Management including energy business strategy development, industrial productivity optimization, energy engineering and lighting systems management for commercial, industrial and institutional businesses.
ReEnergize
5464 College Avenue, Oakland, CA Contact: Armando Novarro Telephone: (510) 594-0673 Email: arnenergy@aol.com Fax: (510) 594-0670ReEnergize is one of the US Department of Energy's Rebuild America partners. They work to improve the energy efficiency of commercial and multifamily residential buildings in the Bay Area. Rebuild America supports them with business and technical tools and customized assistance, and by linking partnerships to share resources.
RLW Analytics
1055 Broadway - Suite G, Sonoma, CA 95476 Contact: Roger Wright, President Telephone: (707) 939-8823 Email: rlw@rlw.com Fax: (707) 939-9218 Web site: www.rlw.comFrom electric and gas service providers to facility managers, RLW Analytics' unique services, tools, and techniques can be implemented to understand energy usage of utility service territories, market segments, chains, campuses, and individual buildings. RLW Analytics, Inc. provides innovative analytical, engineering and market research consulting for energy companies. Our tools are designed to help you make profitable energy supply and equipment retrofit decisions. Our Electric Markets Survey provides you with current market intelligence on the deregulated electric marketplace. Our firm's other innovations include the Model-Based Statistical Sampling (MBSSTM) Software for sample design and analysis, and the Engineering Calibration Approach (ECATM) for understanding the energy use of market segments.
Salas O'Brien Engineers, Inc.
305 South 11th Street, San Jose, California 95112 Contact: Carl Salas, Principal Telephone: (408) 282-1500 Email: info@salasobrien.com Fax: (408) 297-2995 Web site: www.salasobrien.comSalas O'Brine offers a broad range of consulting engineering services including: Air Conditioning and Central Plant Design, Deregulation / Demand Side Management Strategies, Modernization Planning, Indoor Air Quality, Building Automation Systems and Direct Digital Control, Mechanical / Electrical / Telecommunication Design, Inspection, Testing, Training and Commissioning, Energy / Utilities Management, Litigation Support, Power / Power Quality / Backup Power, Space Planning / Facilities Management.
Schiller Associates
1333 Broadway, Suite 1015, Oakland, CA 94612 Contact: Steve Schiller, Principal Telephone: (510) 444-6500 Email: steves@schiller.com Fax: (510) 444-6502 Web site: www.schiller.comSchiller Associates provides professional engineering and project management services for energy projects and programs. We offer our clients both strategic and technical solutions based on extensive industry experience. Services includes technical, economic and risk analyses for energy efficiency projects; planning, administration and evaluation implementation of utility and government sponsored energy efficiency, demand side management, public goods charge, and market transformation programs; and work as the owner's representative for measurement an dverification of perfromance contracts.
Sempra Energy Solutions
5674 Stoneridge Dr., Suite 115, Pleasanton, CA 94588 Contact: Judy Peck, Business Development Mgr Telephone: (925) 460-9849 Email: jpeck@sempra-slns.com Fax: (925) 460-9831 Web site: www.sempraenergy.comAt Sempra Energy Solutions, it's our goal to help organizations improve the energy operations of their facilities, save money, and use those savings for capital improvements and facility system renewal. We can guarantee that the savings resulting from our projects will cover the payments for the new equipment. We can also work with you on water usage issues, in an effort to help conserve resources, and further reduce costs.
SRC Systems, Inc.
2855 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 410, Berkeley, CA 94705 Contact: Robert Sonderegger Telephone: (510) 848-8400 Email: sales@src_systems.com Fax: (510) 848-0788 Web site: www.src-systems.comSRC Systems develops and delivers software solutions addressing a wide range of needs for the energy services industry. It is their mission to develop and deliver software solutions addressing a wide range of needs for the energy services industryThey have a wide range of software products for energy accounting, utility data analysis, equipment analysis and analysis of energy trends and comparison across facilities. They also offer extensive training and support for their products.
Strategic Energy Innovations
2715 Heatherstone Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903 Contact: Cyane Dandridge Telephone: (415) 507-1623 Email: cyane@hooked.net Fax: (415) 507-1600Strategic Energy Innovations is a non-profit organization focused on community empowerment around energy issues. We work with communities to design program that are tailored to their needs, building internal resources or finding external resources to help them acheive energy efficiency within their community. We also focus on networking communities, by providing the vehicle for them to share lessons learned and success stories. We work primarily through the Department of Energy's Rebuild America program.
Supersymmetry
99 Linden Street, Oakland, CA 94607 Contact: Peter Rumsey Principal Telephone: (510) 663-2070 Email: prumsey@supersym.com Fax: (510) 663-2080 Web site: www.supersym.comSupersymmetry is an innovative engineering firm specializing in the design of super efficient and cost effective HVAC systems. We work for large commercial and industrial clients and have extensive experience in large office buildings and semiconductor cleanrooms. Our clients include Netscape, Silicon Graphics, ST Microelectronics, Compaq, and AMD.
Taylor Engineering
1305 Marina Village Parkway, Alameda, CA Contact: Steven Taylor, President Telephone: (510) 749-9135 Email: staylor@taylor-engineering.com Fax: (510) Web site: www.taylor-engineering.comTaylor Engineering is an HVAC engineering firm located in Alameda, California. The company is expert in HVAC systems design and construction, energy conservation, indoor air quality, temperature controls, and system commissioning. Some of the services they offer are: HVAC system design, control system design, energy conservation, indoor air quality, and commissioning.
The Trane Company
310 Soquel Way, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Contact: Donald Druyanoff, District Manager Telephone: (408) 481-3600 Fax: (408) 481-3666 Web site: www.trane.com/cso_root/sanfrancisco/cso/Trane has equipment, software tools and a library applicable case studies, technical articles and reference materials. Trane also offers financing alternatives and training. They can also supply temporary cooling, Service parts, extended warranties and products to upgrade your equipment room or retrofit your CFC based equipment.
US Department of Energy, Federal Energy Management Program
Contact: Shelley Fidler, Acting Director Telephone: (800) DOE-EREC Fax: (202) 586-3000 Web site: www.eren.doe.gov/fempFEMP provides technical assistance for project identification, alternative methods of financing projects, technical support and training necessary to successfully implement projects, and transfer of knowledge about successful projects to encourage others to progress toward these goals.
US Department of Energy, Rebuild America
Contact: Don Fort Telephone: (800) DEO-EREC Email: dfort@nciinc.com Web site: www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/rebuildRebuild America is a network of community partnerships that saves money by saving energy. Rebuild America partnerships, working with U.S. Department of Energy, improve the energy efficiency of their commercial and multifamily residential buildings. Rebuild America supports them with business and technical tools and customized assistance, and by linking partnerships to share resources. Throughout the nation, Rebuild America currently has more than 200 partnerships at work - in 47 states, within several Native American Tribes, and in three U.S. Territories.
US Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Star Buildings
Climate Protecton Division, 401 M Street, SW, Washington D.C. 20401 Telephone: (888) STAR-YES Email: energystarbuilding@epa.gov Web site: www.epa.gov/buildingsEnergy Star Buildings is a voluntary partnership between U.S. organizations and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promote energy efficiency in buildings. These organizations represent owner-occupied, public and commercially owned buildings. They are diverse and include: retail stores, supermarkets, restaurants, industry, higher education and K-12 schools, state and local government, hotels and motels, federal government, property managers, energy service and product providers. Organizations that join the partnership follow a proven, cost-effective strategy to save money by reducing the total energy consumption of their buildings. EPA provides participants in ENERGY STAR Buildings with unbiased technical information, support services, public relations assistance, and access to a broad range of resources and tools.
US Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX
75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 Contact: Marie Broadwell Telephone: (415) 744-1174 Email: broadwell.marie.epa.gov Fax: (415) 744-1076 Web site: www.epa.gov/ozoneUnder section 612 of the Clean Air Act, EPA established the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program. SNAP's mandate is to identify alternatives to ozone-depleting substances and to publish lists of acceptable and unacceptable substitutes. Several rules and notices have expanded these lists, and they are available for online reading or for downloading. In addition, fact sheets cover more fully the eight industrial use sectors included within SNAP. Finally, information about enforcement actions is available. Call the ozone protection hotline at 1-800-296-1996 for more information.
US Environmental Protection Agency, Significant New Alternatives Program (SNAP)
Stratospheric Protection Division, 401 M Street, SW, Washington D.C. 20401 Telephone: (800) 296-1996 Web site: www.epa.gov/spdpublic/snap/snap.htmlUnder section 612 of the Clean Air Act, EPA established the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program. SNAP's mandate is to identify alternatives to ozone-depleting substances and to publish lists of acceptable and unacceptable substitutes. Several rules and notices have expanded these lists, and they are available for online reading or for downloading. In addition, fact sheets cover more fully the eight industrial use sectors included within SNAP. Finally, information about enforcement actions is available. Call the ozone protection hotline at 1-800-296-1996 for more information.
Viron Energy Services
1260 B Street, Suite 125, Hayward, CA 94541 Contact: Bill Kelly Telephone: (510) 538-4416 ext 13 Email: bkelly@viron.com Fax: (510) 538-4450 Web site: www.viron.comViron Energy Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of York International, is an engineering based energy services company that specializes in energy performance contracting and turnkey energy retrofit projects. York International is the largest independent producer of HVAC&R products in the world. Retrofitting existing buildings for energy conservation has been Viron's only business since it's founding in 1974. Viron is product independent and utility neutral, which means we do not represent any single brand of energy efficient technology to our clients, and we actively pursue savings from both electricity and gas energy. Our clients benefit from our more flexible project engineering approach, by realizing optimum long-term solutions, designed to fit the needs and economics of their facilities.
York International Corporation
7060 Koll Center Parkway, Suite 312, Pleasanton, CA 94566 Contact: Mark Johnson, Zone Sales Manager, Northern California Telephone: (925) 426-1144 Email: mark.johnson@york.com Fax: (925) 426-1188 Web site: http://www.york.com/York International is the largest independent supplier of heating ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerant (HVAC&R) equipment in the United States. York manufactures large tonnage centirfugal chillers from 100 tons to 8,000 tons using R-123, R-22 & R-134a. York also manufactures a/c and w/c screw and scroll water chillers from 10 tons to 400 tons. York also supplies indoor and outdoor air handling units (standard, semi-custom and custom).
Last Updated: 24 July, 2003