Currently, 70 of the first 80 building dashboards are complete, which represents 92% of the University's energy consumption. Many of the dashboards are visible on building video displays for all building occupants to view. They continue to vet the data streams and will add more dashboards as they continue our efforts in the future. We contract Hawkeye Energy Solutions to develop and maintain the dashboards.
Project Description
The Illini Energy Dashboard provides clearly visible understandable information data and information to students and staff of selected University buildings describing energy consumption rate (electrical, chilled water and steam) so that users can make educated choices about the way they can affect energy consumption and conservation. The biggest challenge in successfully creating a campus-wide goal of energy reduction is being able to evoke a behavioral change resulting in energy conservation and sustainability efforts. This project aims to achieve such a change by showing energy consumers at the University how they're consuming energy in a clear way.
The Energy Dashboard Project is a multi-part project that includes implementation of a website, connection of existing real-time energy meters, and installations of additional real-time energy meters throughout campus. With support from the Student Sustainability Committee, this project funded the purchase of the website module for the campus' energy data historian program, through Insight. F&S staff oversaw the implementation of the module, and ECI staff developed the look and reference content of the site. The website went live in early 2012, and existing real-time meters have been connected. At this time, additional metering is underway.
Project Background
The conversion factors used in the dashboard display are:
Previous Related File is attached
The Energy iCAP team met at 9:00 A.M. on Wednesday, January 26th and discussed updates on recommendation ideas as well as agreed to move forward with the submission of two recommendations to the iCAP Working Group. Progress is currently being made on a feasibility study of CO2 District Heating and Cooling which will be undertaken by a group of engineering students during the Spring Semester, and progress on a new recommendation for Building Envelope Commissioning will take place.
The Team also agreed to move forward with a recommendation that the Office of the Chancellor commission a report on the Safety and Security of a proposed MMR Nuclear Reactor on campus property as well as another recommendation that would seek to charge Facilities & Services with developing a comprehensive energy plan that will bring the University to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Further Details on the meeting can be found in the attached agenda which also contains meeting minutes.
“In summary, there will be 2 slides taking turns to be displayed on the digital screen in CIF. The first slide is primarily composed of the 3D GSHP system schematic (Ground loops, heat pump and building) and the key parameters & features. The second slide shows the results from building energy modeling, including annual outdoor temperature variations, heating/cooing loads and other energy consumptions. This may [help] visualize the impact of CIF geothermal and give public a better understanding on the renewable resources.”
-John Zhao (11/14/2022)
PhD. Candidate
Research Assistant
Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research field: Ground Source HVAC System/Subsurface Heat Transfer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Energy iCAP team combined its November and December meetings for the fall of 2021 into a single "Winter Meeting" This meeting was used to discuss 12 different recommendation ideas, a select amount of which will be developed into recommendations in the near future.
Additionally, the team discussed a short note to the iCAP Working Group asking that the Comprehensive Energy Plan not have its name changed to '"lean Energy Plan"
Notes from the meeting are attached.
After discussions with Michael McKelvey at MSTE and Aaron Mason and Ian Bonadeo at Hawkeye Energy Solutions, since Morgan White put them in contact back in April, the ECE building’s energy dashboards are now available without requiring a login and via domain name rather than IP address! Here are the dashboards:
ECE Building – Energy Dashboard
ECE Building – Net Zero Energy Dashboard
You can view the listing of dashboards currently available at the U of I Building Energy Dashboard Home Page.
Joyce Mast is working with Patricia Franke to refine the ECE energy displays to include the effect of local weather on the solar panels. F&S Utilities and Energy Services is connecting Joyce with the contact people at Hawkeye Energy Solutions, who incorporated real-time energy data in the ECE energy dashboard, using campus data provided by F&S.
From: McKelvey, Michael L
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 10:10 AM
To: White, Morgan
Subject: ECE building energy dashboards
Hi Morgan,
You may already be aware of this, but I wanted to let you know that, after corresponding with Aaron Mason and Ian Bonadeo at Hawkeye Energy Solutions since you put us in contact back in April, the ECE building’s energy dashboards are now available without requiring a login and via domain name rather than IP address! Here are the dashboards:
ECE Building – Energy Dashboard
ECE Building – Net Zero Energy Dashboard
You can view the listing of dashboards currently available at the U of I Building Energy Dashboard Home Page.
They’re now ready to be linked from the appropriate iCAP Portal entries!
--Michael--
============== Michael McKelvey ===============
Office for Mathematics, Science, & Technology Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 244-7148
============ mmckelve at illinois.edu ============
During a conversation between U of I staff across multiple departments, the following resources were compiled to brainstorm content for the display and kiosks in the ECE lobby:
Joyce Mast met with MSTE and F&S contacts today to brainstorm ideas for energy and atmospheric data to be displayed in the ECE lobby on the digital touch screen.
Objectively, everyone knows you should conserve energy resources, but it is easy to lose track of that goal in the hundreds of other things our brains need to think about each day. One way to encourage people to be more cognizant is to give them a tangible reminder. The local electric company, for example, sometimes send a reminder notice that tells you how well you’re doing with energy consumption compared to other homes the size of yours in the area. In a similar idea, F&S has developed an improved energy dashboard that will be used in campus facilities. Beginning with the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Building, Energy Dashboards will be deployed to show the utility use for a specific building. It will also show if that use is above or below average for the last 30 days or one year. The dashboard appears in the rotation of the ECE digital signage in the lobby of the building. The plan is to expand it to other buildings to help promote energy awareness and conservation on campus.
As of March 01, 2021, many small edits and content ideas were suggested for ECEB-related project pages on the iCAP Portal. These suggestions to update the pages were provided by Joyce Mast and include the following:
On February 28, 2021, Catherine Somers sent out an email to Professors Bruce Hajek and Philip Krein regarding the ECE lobby displays. As written in the exciting email:
"I have a bit of good news! The Student Sustainability Committee-funded lobby display which will eventually have interactive features to encourage energy savings, is taking shape. The kiosks and the touchscreen panel are installed and rotating informational slides. Joyce Mast continues to make excellent progress on the real-time display of solar energy production." -Catherine Somers
This approval follows suit after the Mast's submitted application for SSC funding for the lobby displays. In Step 2 of the funding application, $30,000 was requested from the SSC for "Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECEB) Interactive, Energy Education/Production/Use Display."
See the attached file to view the SSC funding application.
A graph of energy consumption at BIF during the week of April 2 - April 9 is attached.
Energy consumption at BIF during the week of March 20-March 26 is attached. We are tracking energy usage while most people are off-campus.
Energy consumption is less this week (Friday, March 20 - Thursday March 26) than last (Thursday, March 12 - Wednesday, March 18). We will continue to monitor energy consumption at BIF as most students and employees are not on campus due to COVID-19 concerns.
The power consumption at the Busines Instructional Facility (BIF) is lower this week, as students leave for spring break, and staff transition to working form home. Stay tuned for additional screen shots as the COVID transition continues.
Hi Becky,
As I mentioned yesterday at the Sustainability Celebration, we have developed HTML web pages for embedding into FourWinds digital signage so you can demonstrate or monitor your daily and weekly electricity usage. Here at the physical plant building, we have them built into a frame that toggles between the two web pages. You have to create a frame with a titel like “Electricity Usage – Illini Union”, embed the html, and then add a button to switch between the two sites. Unfortunately, the person who did this for us has moved to another job, so I can’t help you on the FourWinds programming. But I know that there are ways to display web pages. Here are the links to the pages we created for the Illini Union. We’d really like to see you guys put something like this up on your digital signage.
Day version:
https://ednaweb.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/IUnion/graph.html
Week Version:
https://ednaweb.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/IUnion/graph.html?week
If you would like more information, feel free to give me a call over here at F&S.
Mike Marquissee
Director – Budget and Planning Resources
Utilites and Energy Services Division
Facilities and Services
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The CEE 398 Project Based Learning and the Sustainability Minor's ENVS 492 Capstone students completed their nine fall 2017 reports.
There were five projects completed for capstone partners:
There were four other projects completed by CEE students:
The BIF energy dashboard prototype is live in the production environment now.
Daily View https://ednaweb.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/BIF/graph.html
Weekly View https://ednaweb.illinienergy.illinois.edu/post/BIF/graph.html?week
