 In this session, on energy efficiency, you're going to be hearing again about a variety of technologies and approaches. And I think what's also really important is to think about how things really do work in systems that you many times cannot have. One thing, it's how you put things together that becomes very, very important in terms of optimizing the efficiency of your overall energy package, your facility. And so we will start off in this session then hearing from Don Moore, who is the CEO of Harmonix Limited. And you go first and then we'll come back to Eric. Thank you, Carol. I feel like I've been moved up in the batting order this morning. So ensure. I don't get any extra time though, I know you. Thank you all for being here. I'm Don Moore. I'm the Chief Executive Officer for Harmonix Limited. We are speaking to Carol's point of overall energy efficiency in these systems. We are the industry leader, the power quality industry leader in the implementation of what is known in the industry as harmonic suppression technology. We consider this technology to be actually an enabling technology for improving the energy efficiency and sustainability of government buildings and private buildings as well. We implement our harmonic suppression systems in the electrical distribution system of the building, i.e. the electrical wiring of the building. We've been doing this in the private sector for over 10 years. We're based in New Haven, Connecticut. We have technology centers in Raleigh, North Carolina, and support services throughout the United States. We're the technology leader because we have three patents on this technology, the latest of which was granted last year. So we continue to move the technology, harmonic suppression technology forward. We've been doing this for over 10 years in the private sector. We have 10,000 installations in place with major clients throughout the United States. We have applications in every key private sector. We're working with the commercial real estate developers. We're in data centers. We're in the major colleges and universities and secondary schools throughout the United States. We're in most of the major financial services companies. We're powering the data centers for a number of state governments as we speak. We're, of course, implemented throughout high-tech industry, hospitals, and we power most of the major media corporations throughout the United States. We're a small company, but we have major strategic manufacturing alliances with major industry leaders so that we can support large deployments. We also have U.S. manufacturing capability. Our technology, of course, has been recognized throughout the green sustainability movement where our energy savings accomplishments are pretty well documented where, of course, a member of the Green Building Council. Our technology has qualified for lead points in the category of innovative technology. So we also help institutions qualify for green building status, et cetera. The problem that we solve is very well known in the industry. It turns out that the high-tech equipment in many buildings throughout the United States generates a harmful, what is called in the industry, a harmonic current. And that harmonic current wastes energy in these facilities. Most of you know, obviously, the current draw in a facility is what determines your power consumption. So any time you reduce the current in a building, whether you turn off the light switches or do other things like eliminate the harmonic current, which is what we do, you reduce the power consumption of the building and you reduce it immediately. But this current in the building can increase the power consumption by as much as 8% in a facility like a hospital, which are very dense with high-tech equipment, obviously a data center or whatever. The impact of this current on the power consumption of a building and its elimination and the benefits you get from eliminating it can be quite compelling, we think. Also, this current reduces the capacity of the building so that it prevents you from putting more high-tech equipment in the building. It also causes heat in the transformers and in the distribution system of the building so that you raise the building's operating cost overall. And obviously, it can have impact on the electrical system reliability and you can have reliability problems, you can have system failures and those kinds of things. We have a unique solution to this problem. We address this at its source. In other words, we prevent the high-tech equipment from generating this third harmonic current. And we eliminate literally 100% of it. Our technology can be easily installed. It's installed in new construction along with the distribution system of the building. We actually integrate it into the transformers of the building. Most importantly, on a retrofit basis, our technology is compatible with the power distribution systems of existing buildings. So we can go in and retrofit an existing building to eliminate the third harmonic current and generate the benefits and the savings that occur to the elimination of the current. So as I said, we've had installations where we've had energy savings of up to 8%. And by the way, this is a sustaining operating cost reduction. Unless anyone thinks the cost of power is going to go down over the years, once you eliminate this current, you solve this problem, you get the benefits over the life of the system. Predicated upon what the cost of energy is in the building, and a good average is anywhere from 10 to 12 cents per kilowatt hour, but it ranges, we obviously have costs as low as 3 or 4 cents in some areas of the United States, and as high as we've seen costs up around 18 to 20 cents in other areas. But the average return on investment of the implementation of our technology on the quick side is 18 months, and in other parts of the country, it runs to 18 to 36 months. Of course, our technology is clean technology. It is absolutely passive technology so that it requires no ongoing preventive maintenance. I used to say that I could install it, and then my engineer said we can't have Dawn running around doing this, but it is easily installed. It's installed in a matter of hours by a licensed electrician. So we feel that we have a very, very compelling technology here. We feel that we can make a difference, and we've made a difference in private industry already. We feel that we can make a difference in government agencies, specifically in existing buildings, and Carol's telling me I'm out of time, so if you'd like to learn more, we are an exhibitor in the room down the hall. We are B1, I think. We're in the back wall. Thank you very much. How did I do, Carol? So make sure that you just go, visit Dawn, visit all of these folks. It's a great chance to meet wonderful people and to learn a lot. So we're now going to hear from Eric Huffman, who is the day lighting sales manager for Sun Optics, and unfortunately he was having to scramble because his flight was late. Yes, sir. Thanks, Carol, and thanks, Dawn, for stepping in there for me. It's been a very interesting morning for traveling. I don't have my jacket, my tie, I feel a lot of place, so I apologize to everyone else, but if you'll bear with me, we're going to talk about day lighting today, which sounds like a real common thing. It's what we have coming through the windows. It's what you see in a lot of the stores and warehouses today, but the main focus when we talk about day lighting with our company is eliminating the need for electric lights during the day. So that's how this ties in so well with the panel talking about the energy efficiency panel. We have our slogan is there's nothing more efficient than off. So when we do presentations and when we're talking to architects and designers, we say, you know, we talk about different lighting technologies and LEDs and all these great things that are being established and developed now, but there's nothing more efficient than if we can eliminate using electricity to power these lights, even if they're old incandescent, there's nothing more efficient than a lamp that's off, even the most technologically advanced lamp. So when we can use day lighting or natural light to eliminate the need for that electric light, that's where the energy savings is. So we've been doing this for a little while. SunOptics is a 32-year-old company. We're actually just acquired by a company called Acuity Brand, which is the largest lighting manufacturer in the country. And our focus developing with Acuity is tying together the skylights, lighting controls and electric lights to automatically create a system that will turn off those lamps when not necessary. So that's the beauty of the system of working with the lighting manufacturer now or being part of a lighting manufacturing company and a controls company as well. So we're able to combine the systems in different projects to develop this technology and create a system that works for each building. So a typical project for us, a very common application for us is a Walmart, a super center. And what they typically do is they'll put in what we call an effective skylight to floor ratio, or about 5% of the roof area in skylights. And what that allows them to do is turn off or dim down their electric lamps for about 2,800 hours per year. That equates to about 8 hours a day, which is significant. They'll tell you on their own website that it equals about $100,000 average across the country in energy savings from daylighting alone. So it adds up very quickly when you can turn off the electric lamps and use the daylighting instead. One of the key components to that is when they think about daylighting as well, what's heat into the space. Or perhaps in the northern climate, it's too much heat out of the skylights. You'll have heat lost through the skylights. And there's a lot of myths that we deal with regarding daylighting, along with the heat gain and heat loss. We talk about the thermal properties. We talk about fall protection. We talk about leaks and groups. No one wants to put a skylight in because they're afraid it's going to leak. So we can address those things. We've designed a better skylight system to turn off the lamps. It equals great energy savings. Part of what we've worked with here on Capitol Hill is there's a direct use renewable energy bill that's part now in the Senate that they're debating and believe it's actually being discussed today and how we can use this technology and provide incentive for it. It's something that's not currently done. There's no federal or there's very few states that offer any incentives for daylighting. Some of those simple technologies it just kind of gets overlooked. Oh yeah, we can put skylights in and that's easy. But there's no incentive for it currently compared to PV and some of the other technologies out there. So there would be some great opportunities and we'd see much more reduction in energy efficiency, I'm sorry, much more improvement in energy efficiency across the country when we can provide some incentives as well for this direct use legislation that's in there. It's already passed through the House. I'm just checking my notes here. It is part of the DOD authority that they're looking at using direct use renewable energy as part of their mandate to reduce energy consumption. So you can see it works for Walmart. It works for any type of building that's typically open space. It has wide open typically without a drop ceiling. So warehouses, factories, hangers very large open spaces where this is most effective and it's typically very quick. Don had mentioned some return on investments. Our typical return on investment for new construction is in that 18 month to two year period on retrofits which a tremendous bulk of our business especially in the past year has been retrofits because the economy there hasn't been a lot of new construction. It typically pushes out a little bit just because there's more involved on the retrofit side. You got to come in, cut the hole in the roof provide the structural materials to support the curb that's being installed. So on the retrofit side it typically pushes out a little bit three to five years. So those that are business owners in the crowd a lot of people got to look for that two year payback, very common hurdle that we try and meet. So when we combine that with the electric controls and the efficiency of turning the electric lamps off that's where we generate the savings and get down to that lower payback period to pay for the skylights. In my example with Walmart I don't think it finished but their typical store they figure saved about $100,000 per year per store with the national average of about 10 cents a kilowatt hour. So depending on what they're paying for electricity as Don mentioned it makes that payback either stretch or reduce. So hopefully that gives you a quick synopsis of what daylighting can do in buildings and how we can eliminate a lot of the energy through daylighting properly. We have a booth over here and be happy to discuss it further with anyone that has questions so we have a handout as well. Thank you. And we also know it makes a huge difference in schools where it is done. So we're now going to turn to Bruce Salkin who is the founding partner of Innovation to hear about LED lighting. Bruce. Okay thank you. My name is Bruce Salkin and I am one of the founding partners of Innovation Lighting which is a lighting company devoted to LED exclusively as lighting alternative. Eric first of all I want to thank you. You really set me up by saying there's nothing more efficient than off. Actually I haven't heard that before and of course you're right. But after off after off the next most efficient thing in lighting is LED. I'm going to use that from now on and I hope it's not trademark. LED is an amazingly efficient lighting technology. I'm looking around at this room and I don't know if that those lights are off intentionally. Eric probably shot them off before he came. You did. Okay. But I don't know doing a quick calculation there's tons and tons of watts in this room alone that replacing each one of these incandescent lights with an LED light can save. If every one of these is 60 watts or 75 watts they can be replaced with 12 watts of LED. So if you do the multiplication which I'm not very good at and you then extend that out throughout the building and throughout the city and etc the amount of wattage that can be saved and money is just absolutely astronomical. And LED is an evolving technology and we anticipate the savings will continue to increase over the next number of years. So, Innovation is a company that's been in business for three years and we focused on a particular niche in LED which is replacing existing lights. Our first focus was in looking at fluorescent lights which are the workhorse of almost all work spaces around this country in particular. Every year as a nation we discard approximately 600 million 4 foot fluorescent lights. Every one of them is 32 watts so it's been using 32 watts through it's useful lifetime and the LEDs that replace those consume 18 watts that's 45% less energy use every minute of every day. Because we're talking about energy efficiency but sustainability as well one of the great benefits to LED in replacing fluorescence and fluorescent is not the only type of light that LED can and should replace but in replacing fluorescence what we also accomplish is we put a light into use that has no mercury in it and we take out of use a light bulb that has mercury in it. Now often times people say well yeah but in fluorescence trace amount of mercury really doesn't mean much but of course if you go to the EPA's website and look up what you're supposed to do if a fluorescent light breaks in your home you'll really be freaked out when you see it says first get the pets out of the house so those trace amounts of mercury in and of themselves are no good and if you multiply that out by 600 million lights that get discarded every year and 600 million there's only a fraction of the fluorescent lighting that is in place around this country it all adds up. Eric talked about return on investment and in replacing existing inefficient lighting with LEDs depending upon your usage depending upon the energy rate one is paying in a particular location ROIs depending upon the particular format of lighting being replaced. Fluorescence which are saving 45% against energy. Street lights which save well more than that if you replace metal halide or HID street lights with LEDs you're going to be saving about 80% in terms of your wattage and your costs your return on investments are going to run as little time and as long as 3 years time depending upon the particulars and of course they vary the higher your energy rate is in Hawaii your rate of return is going to be very very quick so let me take a quick look at my notes because typically if you are a user or a potential user of new energy efficient lighting one of the things you should be looking for from a supplier is validation of the claims they're making about their lights they should be able to tell you they've been independently tested they should be able to tell you that they've been submitted to the DOE for inclusion in the DOE's lighting facts program which basically validates that the independent testing was done according to their requirements there is continuing innovation in the LED technology just in the last 6 months one of the things we've seen is certain formats in LED which were developed over the last 3 years but for example lights that could get screwed into these chandeliers here would not have been dimmable and within the last 6 months that technology was added in at no additional cost manufacturing the product so now LED's of this type of replacement are fully dimmable and again we expect constant change so there are many many different formats as I said and whether you're a member of the government or whether you're an independent business owner there's a tremendous amount of savings to be had through LED in both energy and money so if you'd like to hear more buy and see us innovation at the show thank you I think a lot of people really like LED's and you're seeing them in so many different kinds of applications now and for so many local governments makes such a difference if you're thinking about the relighting of parking garages it still increases brightness and as well as obviously in terms of energy consumption and there are a lot of now street lighting programs going on across the country because people forget what a huge cost electricity consumption for stoplights and for street lighting what it is in every local government's budget every year so now we're going to sort of shift in terms of thinking about energy efficiency a little bit in terms of an area that's very very important that doesn't get nearly enough attention and to talk about that a little bit is Thomas Horner who is the VP the Vice President of Engineering for Water Management Inc Good morning I first of all wanted to thank the Sustainable Energy Coalition and especially Ken Bosong and Scott Sklar for their continuous efforts in educating the Hill on the benefits of renewable energy and efficiency programs in the energy and water field and I thank you to Carol Warner and EESI for their numerous years of educating Congress on clean energy and climate change while advancing innovative policy solutions there are a lot of people that have been working tirelessly for years we need to start listening a little more closely the water industry encompasses water providers sewer treatment plants systems numerous private sector companies the American Water Works Association has their show here in town this week a little over 25,000 people this year and I think George Hawkins who's General Manager at DC Water said it best when at one of the sessions they asked him how many jobs in the District of Columbia are you responsible for and he stepped up to the microphone and he said all of them without water you can't run a society without water you can't run an electrical generation system the industry itself is very energy intensive we pump treat re-pump and distribute high quality safe water through millions of miles of underground unseen piping after this water is delivered and used the product along with sewage and other byproducts are pumped, treated and re-pumped into our environment without the large expenditures from Congress throughout the years we would not have the pristine environment that we have today approximately 16% of our nation's electrical supply is directly related to pumping and treatment of this essential resource up until about the mid 90s the end users of this subsidized indispensable service were charged relatively little architects and engineers are very smart people they design systems to take advantage of this low cost high quality product over the last 10 years the cost associated with treating and distributing have skyrocketed currently the national average rate is an outrageous one cent per gallon delivered to your door 24-7 365 that's an increase of about two times in the last 10 years it's truly one of life's great bargains new facilities that are designed to industry and water standards use approximately 40-50% less than that exact same facility designed 20-25 years ago proven off the shelf water efficiency products and engineered solutions that are used in new construction can be incorporated into our older facilities very cost effectively water efficiency programs save money for end users while greatly reducing the electrical load for water and sewer providers we need to incorporate the fact that comprehensive water efficiency programs not only benefit the users of that service but also benefits society by reducing the associated electrical load water authorities need to reduce their unaccounted for water leak detection programs repair programs VFDs for their pumps end users need to upgrade their facilities to current industry and water sense standard the present day mantra of the water and wastewater industry is reduce reuse and recycle the three Rs will continue to decrease electrical usage tremendously the industry along with its clients are slowly becoming more water and energy efficient this trend will continue to endure as water and sewer expenses rise for non upgraded facilities the big picture water withdrawals for all purpose are slightly over 400 billion gallons per day this includes water used in thermoelectric power production that's half that total agriculture 125 billion gallons and 11% of the total or 45 billion gallons a day is distributed throughout those millions of miles of pumps on our private side the commercial, industrial and institutional sectors represent fertile grounds for the implementation of comprehensive water efficiency programs they will also reduce electrical demand and allow the water industry to cost effectively deliver its product thank you very much