Energy Management for HVAC and Lighting for Hotels and Rental Property

EnergyMisers understands that controlling your energy use can be difficult. We will help you understand and implement the latest in energy management technologies to help you control costs for HVAC, lighting, water heating and water consumption. EnergyMisers can provide audits of your current operations and recommend and implement energy savings measures. Once we have made your business or institution as efficient as possible we can also help you move to the next step with renewable energy production.

EnergyMisers is the distributor for the Melink Intelli-Hood Kitchen Vent Hood Control System for professional kitchens, ENTERgize™, a Wireless, Occupancy Based, Energy Management System that controls HVAC, Lighting and Outlet loads, Albeo and Permlight LED Lighting, the VendingMiser, family of occupancy-based energy control products for cold beverage and snack vending machines and office equipment, .

Energy Use Info, Conservation Tips, Tax Deductions

Managing Energy Costs in the Lodging Sector: Click Here
Guest Room Energy Management Controls: Click Here
Lighting Tips and Technologies

Fluorescent Types and Benefits: Click Here
LEC Exit Signs: Click Here
Occupancy Sensors: Click Here
Hotel Bathroom Lighting Control: Click Here
Lighting Control for Schools: Click Here

Water Use Tips and Technologies
- Low Flow Shower Heads and Faucet Aerators: Click Here
Federal Tax Deductions:

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) Energy efficient Commercial Building deduction.

This provision offers business taxpayers a deduction of $1.80 per square foot for commercial buildings that achieve a 50% reduction in annual energy cost to the user, compared to a base building defined by the industry standard ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1-2001. Energy costs refer only to heating, cooling, lighting and water heating, since only these uses are within the scope of the ASHRAE standard and within the control of the building designer.

Each of the three energy-using systems of the building — the envelope, the heating, cooling and water heating system, and lighting system — is eligible for one third of the incentive if it meets its share of the whole-building savings goal. Explicit interim compliance procedures are provided for lighting.

Eligible buildings include commercial buildings such as: Hotels, offices, retail buildings, warehouses, etc., rental housing of four stories or more, and publicly-owned buildings. For publicly-owned buildings, there is an interesting provision allowing the credit to pass through to the "person primarily responsible for designing the building."

New construction in an existing building is also eligible for the tax deduction, with one third of the deduction amount for new construction that affects the new energy-using system (such as lighting or heating, cooling and water heating).

Compliance is determined by third party inspectors who review the plans and the actual in-place construction. Energy savings are determined by software that must be certified by the Department of Energy as meeting criteria of consistency and accuracy, following the successful experience of California’s performance-based energy code enforcement.

The incentives apply to buildings or systems placed in service during 2006-2007, although extenders increasing the eligibility through 2009 or 2010 are a distinct possibility.