The Vermont Community Foundation has hiredKilawatt Technologiesto slash its energy use. With its sophisticated suite of hardware and software tools, Kilawatt will remotely monitor the energy use patterns in the Community Foundation’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system and identify areas of hidden waste. Then, it will eliminate that waste and save the Foundation a significant amount of money.
Kilawatt will install a highly advanced wireless control system in the Community Foundation’s facility. This control system will allow Kilawatt to make HVAC operations transparent to the Foundation so that both the Foundation and Kilawatt can see precisely how the equipment is operating, what the environment is in the room, and what the energy use patterns are.
In addition to saving energy, Kilawatt will use this information to predict upcoming equipment failures and identify the likely issue rather than having HVAC technicians use a trial-and-error approach to fix broken equipment. This level of transparency is nearly unheard of in the HVAC industry. Kilawatt has saved its clients a great deal of money through this approach.
Kilawatt Technologiesstudies the thermodynamic properties of buildings and customizes their HVAC operations accordingly. It continuously monitors energy and environmental data trends for individual commercial, multi-family, and industrial buildings. It has reduced its clients’ energy use by an average of 36%.
The Vermont Community Foundationis a family of hundreds of funds and foundations established by Vermonters to serve their charitable goals. It provides the advice, investment vehicles, and back-office expertise to make giving easy and effective. The Foundation also provides leadership in giving by responding to community needs, mobilizing, and connecting philanthropists to multiply their impact and by keeping Vermont’s nonprofit sector vital with grants and other investments in the community. Visitwww.vermontcf.org