Roadmap to energy smart business facilities

“Net-Zero” is a journey that has two phases. One, reducing the ongoing emission and the
other is offsetting the emission.

Progressive Qatar by partnering with Racanaa Energy aims to reduce ongoing emissions by the distributed business facilities and in long run empower these facilities in offsetting the emissions in two-phase execution roadmap

Overview of the Collaboration

The whole climate system is in unprecedented need of a sustained reduction of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases. Irrespective of geographies the call to action for climate change is now beyond just discussion points and directly impacting business valuations. Most of the economic superpowers and developing countries across globe have pledged to achieve Net-Zero with a definitive timeline.

Qatar being an energy extensive country has higher electricity per capita consumption owing to its booming real estate. Across the globe, nearly 40% of carbon dioxide emissions come from the real estate sector.

Qatar has taken the initiative to move towards a sustainable future by following the net-zero path. It aims to cut 25% GHG emissions by 2030.

We as an organization also share a common vision and actively participate in building Qatar’s sustainable energy future. We have recently taken the initiative of helping businesses with distributed facilities to achieve sustainability by reducing their carbon footprint and
helping them achieve net-zero. For this common goal, Progressive Qatar is proud to announce our new partnership with the Indian subsidiary of the UK-based energy data management company, Racanaa Energy.

Racanaa has successfully laid foundations of Net-Zero roadmap for businesses with distributed facilities. Across various industry verticals such as Retail, Quick Service Restaurants, Real Estate, Banking, and Financial Sectors, Racanaa implemented it monitoring and intelligence solution by bringing them on a unique real-time data-driven energy service platform called ‘Pindera’.

Overview of the Collaboration

The whole climate system is in unprecedented need of a sustained reduction of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases. Irrespective of geographies the call to action for climate change is now beyond just discussion points and directly impacting business valuations. Most of the economic superpowers and developing countries across globe have pledged to achieve Net-Zero with a definitive timeline.

Qatar being an energy extensive country has higher electricity per capita consumption owing to its booming real estate. Across the globe, nearly 40% of carbon dioxide emissions come from the real estate sector.

Qatar has taken the initiative to move towards a sustainable future by following the net-zero path. It aims to cut 25% GHG emissions by 2030.

We as an organization also share a common vision and actively participate in building Qatar’s sustainable energy future. We have recently taken the initiative of helping businesses with distributed facilities to achieve sustainability by reducing their carbon footprint and
helping them achieve net-zero. For this common goal, Progressive Qatar is proud to announce our new partnership with the Indian subsidiary of the UK-based energy data management company, Racanaa Energy.

Racanaa has successfully laid foundations of Net-Zero roadmap for businesses with distributed facilities. Across various industry verticals such as Retail, Quick Service Restaurants, Real Estate, Banking, and Financial Sectors, Racanaa implemented it monitoring and intelligence solution by bringing them on a unique real-time data-driven energy service platform called ‘Pindera’.

Carbon Clean has received investment from key global players including CEMEX, Chevron, Marubeni, Samsung Ventures and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures among others.

The technology has been proven at scale in over 44 sites around the world, and the company has delivered the world’s largest industrial-scale carbon capture and utilisation plant for Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd, India.

The company’s patented technology significantly reduces the costs of carbon capture when compared to conventional solutions. Headquartered in the UK, with offices in India, Spain, and the US they are focused on helping hard-to-abate industries achieve their net zero targets by reducing the cost of carbon capture. With over a decade of experience in designing, building, financing, and operating industrial carbon capture systems (founded in 2009).

Inspired by Qatar’s national climate change action plan aimed at achieving a 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and a broader vision of being net-zero by 2060, Progressive Qatar has partnered with Carbon Clean, a global leader in carbon capture solutions for hard-to-abate industries such as cement, steel, refineries and energy from waste

A Real-time Data-Driven Energy Service Delivery Platform

PINDERA

Modelling

Developing analytical models calibrated using operating data for baselining energy consumption & testing algorithms

Hardware

DP level monitoring & control in real time based on requirements provided by algorithms and modelling

Algorithm

Automating alarm & control for optimal operations based on customer requirements

Analytics

Actionable insights at an individual device level in real time with calibration of modelling & verification of algorithms

Pindera is a real-time service delivery platform that brings all critical aspects of energy
management together and provides the opportunity to scale with seamless access to energy
insights across various touchpoints. The Pindera platform has four components, elaborating
on each of them will further clarify how we identify, track, and optimize the KPIs.

Our Offerings

1.Energy Intelligence

Modelling & Benchmarking:

Racanaa’s analytical models enable in-facility monitoring of energy flow predictions and help develop as well as test control algorithms to optimize energy conservation & consumption

Real-time Data Collection of demand & supply:

Customizable dashboard to keep track of KPIs and SOPs across the connected cluster of facilities

Asset Health Tracking:

Asset level granularity of the data helps to track deviation from rated operating conditions.

AMC & Warranty Management:

From scheduled and reactive maintenance, remote visibility enables proactive maintenance. Thus, improved control and commercial benefits of AMC and Warranty Management set in place.

2.Energy Automation

Centrally controlled automation module customized to each customer’s operational scenarios.

Based on the intelligence services insights and analytics, automation algorithms are developed and implemented with a continuous improvement goal

Case Studies

Swimming Pool

One of the newly built Bangalore’s premium real estate project engaged with Racanaa to achieve their energy conservation goal. At the initial stage of the engagement Racanaa identified areas with higher potential of energy savings, one such area is the swimming pool where Racanaa installed its ‘Ctrl-R’ solution for monitoring and identifying potential savings. Three month long observation results surprised the builder of the project with below findings –
  • Irregular pattern of Pump Operations changed to standard operating procedure.
  • Earlier ~ 36 Units/day consumption dropped down to less than 9 Units/day (~76% savings).
  • Optimized pump run hours has increased the lifespan of pump and reduced maintenance cost up to 75%.
  • Daily Peak power has been recorded just as 5kW against 15kw before ‘Ctrl-R’ installation (67% optimization)

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR)

Racanaa Energy implemented its Energy Intelligence and Automation services at 16 stores of a major Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) brand in India. The benefits derived were:

• Improved electrical safety

• Proactive maintenance of assets

• Standardization of store environments

• Audit of standard operating practices

• Energy savings

Real Estate

A real estate developer with core focus of “Natural and Environment Friendly Living” engaged with us to achieve their energy conservation goal. The first phase of our engagement started with identifying common area energy savings potential. Site survey data and historical electricity bills for the common area of one of the developments were analysed to identify current issues in electricity consumption. The key findings (summarized below), after deployment of Racanaa Energy’s Ctrl-R system, led to a potential 31% savings on monthly energy bill.

  • 83% of the total energy consumption was by only 3 pumps.
  • Abnormal run hours for hot water re-circulation pump (approximately 24 hrs. / day),
  • Abnormal run hours for Swimming Pool Filter Pump (approximately 17 hrs. / day
  • Non-operating hours energy consumption approximately 22%
  • 127% higher load on Bore well
  • Extremely low power factor for Hot water re-circulation pump. (0.63)

Below charts represent savings potential, if the corrective measures taken on key parameters identified.

Cloud Kitchen

A leading food delivery company with a national presence of over 1,000 cloud kitchens, evaluated RACANAA’s Energy as a Service (EAS) offering to ensure pan India roll-out of efficient and scalable energy management solution. The annual average of energy demand across the network was about 25 kWhr/sq. ft. A proof of concept for the 1st Phase of implementation was deployed at 3 of their Bangalore based Kitchens. A monthly performance report of Racanaa solution captured below for three kitchens. The 1st Phase only addressed the monitoring of the supply and demand side of the kitchen.