RESET® Energy
The RESET Energy Standard is a data standard for continuous energy monitoring.
RESET Energy is designed to prioritize on-going results with a focus on the operational phase of a built environment. RESET Energy requires energy consumption data to be continuously gathered through energy meters.
Results are streamed to the cloud and can be viewed in real-time from any computer or mobile device, providing access to better understand how a building performs over time.
RESET Energy is currently under development. To learn more the RESET Energy Standard, click below to download the RESET Energy Introduction Deck.
file_downloadRESET Energy - Intro and Standards Download1. What is the RESET Energy Standard?
The RESET Energy Standard is a data-driven standard for evaluating the building performance as it pertains to energy by standardizing the continuous monitoring requirements of energy consumption in built environments.
RESET Energy takes into consideration aspects including monitor performance, deployment, and installation requirements, as well as data reporting and data platform requirements.
RESET Energy's fundamental approach to data requirements can be divided into 3 parts:
Completeness
RESET Energy standardizes the continuous monitoring requirements of energy consumption in built environments. Continuous monitoring brings to the forefront the carbon operating costs of the built environment and provides easier access to understanding how to leverage the faster feedback loops to improve efficiency.
The completeness of data verifies whether or not all the data is there and whether there is enough data to understand the state of energy consumption.
Quality
RESET is first and foremost a standard for data quality. Performance results are only as good as the data being assessed.
RESET addresses data quality at the source and specifies requirements for the monitors and the deployment methodology in a project. RESET also makes sure the data is trusted and relevant by requiring monitors to be installed in the right way and to have plans for long term maintenance. Lastly, RESET sets requirements for how the data is reported and connected to guarantee transparency and access via analysis and reporting.
RESET addresses data quality at the source and specifies requirements for the monitors and the deployment methodology in a project. RESET also makes sure the data is trusted and relevant by requiring monitors to be installed in the right way and to have plans for long term maintenance. Lastly, RESET sets requirements for how the data is reported and connected to guarantee transparency and access via analysis and reporting.
Performance
RESET Energy is performance-based, but does not set any performance targets.
Instead, RESET Energy will leverage the RESET Leaderboard, where projects will be benchmarked anonymously against each other with the goal of highlighting projects that excel so other projects can learn more about the solutions and services they leverage.
The RESET Energy Standard is available for free. It is a great reference for any project that wants to set up continuous monitoring for energy.
Projects leveraging the RESET Energy Standard can opt-in to becoming a RESET Energy Project, where it can become RESET Accredited. Click here to read more information on project accreditation.
2. The Intent of RESET Energy
Intent
The intent of the RESET Energy Standard is:
- Promote the continuous monitoring of energy consumption in the built environment.
- Standardize how energy consumption is measured in order to facilitate the benchmarking of projects.
- Advocate awareness and transparency around energy by reporting the data to project occupants to foster education and understanding of how energy is used for opportunities to improve upon baseline metrics.
- Raise public awareness of energy consumption and the impact it has on the environment.
- Gamify the data to create incentives for better energy usage.
3. How to Use the RESET Energy Standard
With a focus on the collecting of data via continuous monitoring, the RESET Energy Standard can be easily applied to either new or existing buildings.
The RESET Energy Standard is applicable to two different project typologies, Commercial Interiors and Core & Shell, which have been separated to help tenants, operators, and owners achieve healthy performance targets by clearly defining and communicating their respective roles and responsibilities.
RESET Energy for Commercial Interiors
RESET Energy for Commercial Interiors (CI) is a performance-based standard targeting the energy consumption in interior spaces. It monitors, tracks, and communicates the energy used by the occupants of an interior space.
RESET Energy for Core & Shell
RESET Energy for Core & Shell (CS) is a performance-based standard targeting the energy consumption of public spaces and central systems in a building, including elevators, mechanical air systems, etc. It monitors, tracks, and communicates the energy consumption of the building spaces and systems that are managed by the building operator.
Data acquired from RESET Energy can overlay data collected from RESET Air to help balance energy consumption needs with other aspects of a space or building, including improved air quality.
4. Project Accreditation
On top of the RESET Energy Standard, a project can pursue RESET Energy Project Accreditation, which provides additional measures of trust via third party audits.
In order for a project to achieve RESET Energy Project Accreditation, energy consumption, as tracked through continuous monitoring and calculated into a daily average, must be maintained.
Note that there is no RESET Energy Project Certification because there will not be hard performance targets to hit for certification. Instead, RESET Energy Projects that are accredited will be added into the RESET Leaderboard for anonymous benchmarking.
RESET Energy Project Accreditation is a great way to market the actions being taken by a built environment towards sustainability and carbon reduction.
5. Special Targets
The RESET Energy Standard includes Special Targets' Certificates that can be awarded to project teams that fulfill the requirements:
Operating Carbon Neutral Certificate
Achieved operating carbon neutrality with the help of externally financed offsets. Note that this is not total operating carbon as we have not included other factors such as water and waste.
Operating Carbon Net-Zero Certificate
Achieved operating carbon neutrality without externally financed offsets, leveraging only internally or locally generated renewable energy. Note that this is not total operating carbon as we have not included other factors such as water and waste.
Sample Special Target certificate below:
6. Next Steps
RESET Energy is currently in development, with plans to release the draft and enter peer review and piloting phases in 2021. Target date for official release will be in 2022.
If there are any questions, concerns, or feedback, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at info[at]reset.build.
7. Download the RESET Energy Standard
All of the PDFs for the RESET Energy Standard can be found below: