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“These projects are multi-year commitments for NorthWrite, our financing and insurance partners and our customers.  The ICP certification process gives all parties an additional level of scrutiny and verification of the key project engineering and financial metrics before committing to the project.”  
                                                                                          - Dave Burchfield, NorthWrite
Tigard Bowl recently received an energy efficiency retrofit consistent with the Investor Confidence Project’s Targeted Commercial protocol. The project  is expected to provide a 13% reduction in energy savings and result in a simple payback period of 3.6 years.
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Tigard Bowl is a well known bowling complex located in Tigard, a suburb southwest of Portland Oregon. The building’s owners were approached by NorthWrite Inc., an ICP Credentialed Project Developer, who proposed a turnkey energy efficiency package for the project focused on  addressing the outdated HVAC control system which operated continuously 24x7 at full capacity and the lighting system which was inefficient and provided poor quality illumination.

The result of these upgrades has been significant reduction in energy use, a more comfortable climate, and unusually high-quality and natural lighting for a bowling alley.  The installed EMS is a key component of the implementation and enables NorthWrite’s Energy Expert software to diagnose unusual energy use and to make adjustments to equipment schedules when necessary.  The EMS also enables data collection and analysis in conjunction with NorthWrite’s Energy Worksite energy analytics software to perform both Measurement & Verification and an analysis of the building’s performance.  This analysis has enabled them to identify and propose a second round of energy efficiency measures which should be implemented in the near future.
 RETROFIT MEASURES
  • Installation of Energy Management System (EMS) including Energy Information Management and Building Automation Systems providing optimum start/stop control, setback management, multi-protocol communication, and remote operations
  • Demand control ventilation
  • Replacement of existing T-8 fluorescent bulbs with high-efficiency LED equivalent retrofit tubes.
  • Lighting occupancy sensor wireless controls
NorthWrite partners with Joule Assets, a member of the ICP Investor Network, to offer unique turn-key energy efficiency solutions to its clients.  Joule Assets provides complete financing solutions for energy efficiency and demand response projects that can provide off-balance sheet treatment, guaranteed savings, fixed payments, and other features that help building owners mitigate risk and maximize operating profits.  For this project, NorthWrite leveraged  incentives through the Energy Trust of Oregon, performance insurance from ICP partner Hartford Steam Boiler, and Joule Asset’s performance- based financing to provide an enticing zero initial cost solution with guaranteed savings that the owners of Tigard Bowl approved and implemented​.
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Total implementation costs for this initial retrofit project were $28,000 resulting in a savings reduction of $3,905 annually, or 13%.  The project is expected to achieve a simple payback of less than 5 years.     
“As investors that provide capital under pay for performance structures,  ICP's Investor Ready Energy Efficiency™. certification allows us to underwrite investments more quickly, easily and accurately.”                                                                                                                                                                                            - Maria Fields, Joule Assets
NorthWrite is an innovative energy technology company that has developed a cloud-based supervisory control, analytics, and diagnostics system for small commercial buildings called Agile Volt™.  Agile Volt™, together with advanced sensing, control, and communications hardware provides a service to customers under a Managed Energy Services Agreement.  Joule Assets finances these projects and the performance is guaranteed and insured--minimizing the risk to all stakeholders.
Joule Assets is dedicated to unlocking cash flows, monetizing savings and enhancing returns in the energy reduction asset (ERA) market. As manager of the ERA Fund, Joule leverages its industry expertise and proprietary database to reduce market barriers and accelerate scaling opportunities, creating a socially responsible, uncorrelated, high performance investment product.

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