Howard S Reichmuth

US Patent:

20110251933, Oct 13, 2011

Filed:

Apr 7, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/081855

Inventors:

Terry Egnor - Portland OR, US
Howard Reichmuth - Hood River OR, US
William C. Campbell - Portland OR, US

International Classification:

G06Q 50/00
G06F 17/10
G06F 1/32
G06Q 30/00
G01R 21/00
G06G 7/63

US Classification:

705 30, 702 60, 703 18, 700276, 700291, 703 2

Abstract:

System and method include precisely modeling of a facility's energy usage over time based on historic data, and precisely predicting or measuring its actual, reduced energy usage over time after a redesign, retrofit, or renovation, or other positive change to the facility. The energy cost savings, whether over a time point of view (POV) of predicted, real-time, or historic, are creditable to the intervening remediation or renovation of the facility's energy footprint. In accordance with one embodiment, multiple-variable inputs are modeled using arithmetic regression and steepest-descent convergence arithmetic solutions based in large part on building-science (construction) data versus outside average temperature (t) that simplifies the modeling and measurements. Additionality is thus addressed along with a system and method that is more accurate, more repeatable, more reliable, and thus more credible and more readily monetized.