For facility professionals, every mechanism to make capital improvement projects a reality is worthy of attention. However, this has become a rather complicated task to master, with the array of vendors, energy suppliers, service providers, demand response (DR) companies, dashboards and analytics programs, and building automation manufacturers all claiming to be the key player when it comes to providing comprehensive benefits and improvements to operations and energy.
While each element of the energy equation is important, questions immediately start to arise such as: