Historic Building Identifies $1M in Energy Savings

SAN FRANCISCO-Carbon Lighthouse has completed a retrofit on the Flood Building, a historic downtown San Francisco office and retail building. Cumulatively, the retrofits will save the tenants of the Flood Building over $1 million in lifetime energy costs while eliminating 870 tons of CO₂ per year over the 12-year to 15-year lifespan of the project.

The key to Carbon Lighthouse’s ability to unlock energy savings, according to a prepared statement, is a propriety thermodynamics engine (MOE) that taps big data to locate hidden but substantial energy savings. MOE taps into 12 years of weather satellite data and highly granular building characteristic data to accurately predict and model energy savings for 10 years in the future.