Bike to Work Week Success

Pulse Energy has always had a strong cycling tradition, fostered in large part by our biking CEO David Helliwell. For many of us who work here, Bike to Work Week is not an excuse to bike to work, but a chance to celebrate what we already do year round, rain or shine, here in Vancouver. This year, during the rainy Bike to Work Week of May 31st, we had 10 cyclists log 80 commutes and ride their bikes for a total of 401 km – putting us in 1st place by number of commutes for companies with 26-100 employees. (Full results here). Next year we plan to do even better.

Bike to Work Week is a program by the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition.

Pulse Energy Winning 'Bike To Work Week' Team

A Discussion on Occupant Engagement, Part III

(This is the third post in a three-part series, see parts I and II below)

Q: Is there a way to identify the origin of the load through the dashboard?

APS: This all depends on the resolution of the monitoring. For the lighting retrofit, we could isolate it to the specific floors only, not individual offices. However, our engineer looked into purchasing wireless monitoring technologies that could measure each office space. This could be moved around and integrated into Pulse. We haven’t implemented anything like that yet. Frankly, it may not be advantageous to scrutinize consumption to that level. Feels too much like “Big Brother” watching your consumption.

Q: Are there provisions for inputting and analyzing facilities which do not have digital meters?

APS: We are starting a new project with schools in First Nation (Aboriginal) communities with electronic monitoring to come up with some indicators around per-student and per-square-meter consumption.  Once we have established some benchmarks, we plan to design a survey that non-monitored schools can use to identify saving opportunities, maybe using their power bill as the key indicator.  All in all, it is better to monitor. Read the rest of this entry »