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Lights, Camera, Action ... and Cooling - The case for centralized low carbon energy at Fox Studios
Abstract
Fox Studios partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and implement solutions to retrofit two production stages and one of its central cooling plants, to reduce energy consumption by at least 30% as part of DOE’s Commercial Building Partnerships (CBP) Program. Although this case study reports expected savings arising from proposed design recommendations for a unique building type and the unusual load characteristics associated with its use, the EEMs implemented for the central plant are applicable to any large campus, office and higher education facility. The intent is that by making the energy-efficiency measures (EEMs) set that were assessed as cost-effective from this project applicable to a larger number of buildings on the campus Fox Studios will be able to implement an integrated campus-wide energy strategy for the long term. The significant challenges for this project in the design phase included identifying how to assess and analyze multiple system types, develop a coherent strategy for assessment and analysis, implement the measurement and verification activities to collect the appropriate data (in terms of capturing ‘normal’ operating characteristics and granularity) and determine the best approach to providing cooling to the site buildings based on the nature of existing systemsmore »
- Authors:
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1170593
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-6917E
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
Citation Formats
Robinson, Alastair, and Regnier, Cindy. Lights, Camera, Action ... and Cooling - The case for centralized low carbon energy at Fox Studios. United States: N. p., 2013.
Web. doi:10.2172/1170593.
Robinson, Alastair, & Regnier, Cindy. Lights, Camera, Action ... and Cooling - The case for centralized low carbon energy at Fox Studios. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1170593
Robinson, Alastair, and Regnier, Cindy. 2013.
"Lights, Camera, Action ... and Cooling - The case for centralized low carbon energy at Fox Studios". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1170593. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1170593.
@article{osti_1170593,
title = {Lights, Camera, Action ... and Cooling - The case for centralized low carbon energy at Fox Studios},
author = {Robinson, Alastair and Regnier, Cindy},
abstractNote = {Fox Studios partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and implement solutions to retrofit two production stages and one of its central cooling plants, to reduce energy consumption by at least 30% as part of DOE’s Commercial Building Partnerships (CBP) Program. Although this case study reports expected savings arising from proposed design recommendations for a unique building type and the unusual load characteristics associated with its use, the EEMs implemented for the central plant are applicable to any large campus, office and higher education facility. The intent is that by making the energy-efficiency measures (EEMs) set that were assessed as cost-effective from this project applicable to a larger number of buildings on the campus Fox Studios will be able to implement an integrated campus-wide energy strategy for the long term. The significant challenges for this project in the design phase included identifying how to assess and analyze multiple system types, develop a coherent strategy for assessment and analysis, implement the measurement and verification activities to collect the appropriate data (in terms of capturing ‘normal’ operating characteristics and granularity) and determine the best approach to providing cooling to the site buildings based on the nature of existing systems and the expected improvement in energy performance of the central cooling plant. The analytical framework adopted provides a blueprint for similar projects at other large commercial building campuses.},
doi = {10.2172/1170593},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1170593},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
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