CIMI Energy

CIMI Energy works with owners and managers of buildings to help reduce energy costs and environmental impacts.  CIMI Energy also works with utilities to help achieve their goals relating to optimization of assets.  

CIMI Energy applies a mix of capabilities:  building audits, consumption benchmarking, computer modeling, and the application of innovative technologies, services and financial solutions.  No matter what the energy-related objective, CIMI Energy exists to add value and improve sustainability.

Computer Modeling of Energy Systems and Data

CIMI Energy performs energy modeling for achieving objectives like creating an asset investment plan that optimizes energy efficiency, payback, and sustainability.  CIMI Energy creates models that make use of the abundance of data that today is either available or within reach.  

The electrification of building heating, cooling and ventilation is one area where modeling can help reduce energy costs and increase sustainability. However electrification can have the opposite effects (e.g. wasted energy or wasted money) if not planned and executed properly. Heat pumps, including air-source and ground-source heat pumps can be used to together, and parameter modeling can be used to determine the best decisions with regard to up front investment, path to scale, ongoing operations costs, and proper balance of operation  through the seasons and the year.

Technologies and Services

CIMI Energy offers advanced technology solutions, turnkey energy services agreements (ESAs), Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as energy storage with batteries, and services such as energy auditing, benchmarking, measurement and verification (M&V), and reporting using tools such as Energy Star Portfolio Manager.

CIMI Energy’s solutions help increase building value, and improve reliability. Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are achieved by various means including reducing the energy use intensity (EUI) of  buildings.

CIMI Energy also helps with communicating progress and results via detailed reports to stakeholders such as management, partnerships, owners, REITs, and shareholders.

In addition to reducing energy costs, CIMI Energy’s solutions help increase building value, comfort, and attractiveness, and improve reliability. Cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are achieved by reducing the energy use intensity of the building.

CIMI Energy addresses all of the factors that drive energy related costs: fuel consumption (with solutions that increase efficiency), demand charges (with peak load reduction solutions), and related costs such as maintenance, repair, and insurance (by bundling into ESAs).

Just like in other parts of the modern economy (like software as a service), capital costs for building owners can be completely eliminated for projects where our partners take ownership of the energy assets.  This creates a win-win for all parties.

Typical customers are owners and managers of large Commercial, Industrial, Multifamily, and Institutional assets. Examples include multifamily buildings, municipal and school buildings, hospitals, hotels, colleges, universities, office buildings, factories, and warehouses.

Details on the ideas behind CIMI Energy’s work are available on geowhiting’s blog.

Leanheat is a proactive technology that leverages AI (artificial intelligence) and data to substantially increase the efficiency of district heating and cooling, hydronic heating, and steam heating systems. By using building-specific and weather forecast data, Leanheat provides the precise amount of heat needed to optimize comfort while minimizing energy costs. Leanheat successfully reduces energy costs and peak energy use in multifamily,  senior living,  college dormitory buildings,  and more.

Tecogen is a leader in the design and manufacture of highly efficient and dependable CHP units and chillers.   CHP is practically an economic requirement today for large users of heat and power, such as large multifamily buildings.  Tecogen typically monitors and maintains their CHP equipment once it’s installed. CIMI Energy helps with assessments of the economics and feasibility of individual locations, as well as with tracking the results of installations over time.   Written reports are suitable for distribution to stakeholders.   See the blog for more information on the value and benefits of CHP here.

Navigate Power is a large consolidator of power purchases.  The large scale of power purchases enables Navigate Power to provide very low power costs to our customers.

Enel X provides capabilities in the distributed energy resources (DER) category that help building owners maximize their energy dollar.  Applications include energy storage, solar, energy management and optimization as a service.

RENEW EP Renew Energy Partners is a leader in the field of Energy Service Agreements (ESAs). ESAs are used for the purpose of avoiding the capital costs of large scale energy retrofits. CIMI Energy helps inform customers of the benefits of ReNew’s innovative financial solutions.
The absence of a requirement for upfront capital makes proceeding with an energy retrofit now possible. By acting now, savings start to accumulate right away, an important point when considered in the context of the scale of savings.

Wegowise is used to track energy use in one or more buildings. Because it’s used in so many types of buildings in thousands of locations, Wegowise is useful for comparing against benchmarks. CIMI Energy uses this information to find opportunities for energy reduction, and incorporates the data into reports.