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As millions of students prepare for in-person learning, it is no wonder that sanitation is at the forefront of every educator\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

According to a recent survey by Business Wire which polled more than 200 U.S. educators across the nation, 92% indicated they plan to increase the frequency of their sanitation efforts.\u00a0 <\/span>Additionally, the areas in schools the educators believe require the highest concentration of their sanitation efforts include:\u00a0 <\/span>Bathrooms (89%), cafeterias (81%), locker rooms (71%), computer labs (70%), classrooms (67%), and gyms (66%).<\/p>\n

This focus on sanitization is for good reason:\u00a0 <\/span>Because of COVID-19, schools must have a definitive and clear method to protect the safety and welfare of faculty, students, families, and the community as a whole.<\/p>\n

To help these schools manage their indoor sanitization efforts, Onsite Utility Services<\/b> recently introduced a new service called Clean Air as a Service<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span>, which allows schools and commercial clients to combine sanitization and comfort into one comprehensive service.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With Clean Air as a Service<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span>, each school uses an indoor air purification system that works in conjunction with their existing HVAC equipment.\u00a0 <\/span>As the airflow passes through the purification system, bipolar ionization energizes the air to form positive and negative ions.\u00a0 <\/span>The newly-charged airflow then distributes the energized ions into all of the spaces served by the school\u2019s HVAC system.<\/p>\n

Those ions then negatively affect the \u2018DNA\u2019 of pathogens, bacteria and viruses – including viruses like COVID-19 – and effectively destroy them.<\/p>\n

And the beauty of the Clean Air as a Service<\/b><\/span><\/a> <\/span>system is just how easily it integrates into existing school and commercial HVAC systems.\u00a0 <\/span>Using the \u2018as a service\u2019 model traditionally found in software, cloud computing and many others, Onsite Utility Services<\/b> deploys the Clean Air as a Service<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span> solution without requiring any investment from the school or commercial client.<\/p>\n

Since the school now can recycle conditioned, purified air, energy costs are reduced from the HVAC system spending less time heating and cooling ventilated air.\u00a0 <\/span>And those savings pay for the service, which includes the equipment installation, ongoing service and maintenance.<\/p>\n

Onsite Utility Services <\/b>is a market leader working with schools and businesses who need help ensuring cleanliness, sanitization, ventilation and safety. Clean Air as a Service<\/b><\/span><\/a> <\/span>delivers these without negatively impacting budgets or other more pressing capital expenditures. \u00a0 <\/span>\u2018<\/p>\n

To learn more about how Clean Air as a Service works, click here<\/b><\/span><\/a> <\/span>or call 844.768.7227.<\/p>\n

About Onsite Utility Services Capital<\/i><\/b>
Since 1993, Onsite Utility Services Capital has been dedicated to unlocking the power of energy efficiency for businesses and institutions nationwide through innovative solutions that lower energy consumption, reduce energy spend, and increase profits. The company\u2019s exceptional and experienced staff of energy experts help clients accomplish their energy efficiency objectives through their Energy Savings as a Service<\/b> and Clean Air as a Service<\/b> programs.\u00a0 <\/span>For more information, visit
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We all want to continue to do business or pursue our missions, and Onsite Utility Services Capital (\u2018OUS\u2019) is here to assist all organizations do just that, by helping to do the two things necessary right now\u2026 Conserve Capital and Reduce Expenses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

You know your lighting retrofit or energy efficiency project is saving you money, but did you know it can also generate a new revenue stream?\u00a0Imagine additional income without any additional risk or investment that could continue for up to four years. Within the PJM Interconnection, energy efficiency (EE) projects, originally done to reduce energy usage and maintenance costs, provide a payback and increase the profitability of the company \u2013 can now also serve as a source of additional revenue for your organization.\u00a0<\/p>

The PJM Capacity Market<\/strong><\/p>

PJM is the Regional Transmission Operator in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, as well as parts of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, and Tennessee. It is their responsibility, throughout those areas, to ensure that the electric grid has enough capacity to meet the demand for electricity. To do this, PJM has developed the PJM Reliability Pricing Model (RPM).<\/p>

The RPM is used to generate long-term pricing signals to capacity resources and Load Serving Entities (LSE) in a manner that is consistent with the PJM Regional Transmission Expansion Planning Process (RTEPP). Or more simply, it helps PJM determine where additional capacity is needed with respect to the electric transmission system, while also providing incentives for those need capacity resources to be developed.<\/p>

Traditionally, electricity generators (nuclear, coal and natural gas fueled power plants) have been the primary participants, committing their electricity output to the grid through an auction process. In return, PJM has compensated these generators financially for their capacity commitments and the lights have stayed on.<\/p>

But with fewer new power plants being constructed, older ones facing retirement, and certain planned transmission projects unable to get off the ground, grid congestion is not only a continuing threat but a growing one that can seriously impede the efficient distribution of electricity that Americans have come to expect.<\/p>

To combat these circumstances that have left PJM with less generation resources to meet electricity demand plus the 15% reserve capacity they need, PJM has begun to reward those that help reduce electricity demand just as they would a generator supplying more electricity.\u00a0\u00a0After all, a penny saved is a penny earned, right?\u00a0\u00a0EE projects and Demand Response (DR) participants, both of which reduce electricity demand (EE does it permanently and DR for up to 10 hours), are now considered capacity resources by PJM and are therefore eligible to participate in the RPM and receive capacity payments.<\/p>

What\u2019s a Capacity Payment Worth?<\/strong><\/p>

That really depends on many factors, such as what region of PJM you\u2019re located in and the availability of capacity resources.<\/p>

EE projects can earn this income for up to 4 years from the time that the project is commissioned.\u00a0Submit your project today for an estimate of additional revenue.<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>

How You Can Begin Receiving This Revenue<\/strong><\/p>

The RPM, which has been used since 2007, successfully gains capacity commitments three years in advance. These commitments are received through multiple auctions that occur each year within each of PJMs 26 regions; helping to stabilize pricing signals, yet still allowing pricing to be locational. In order to begin receiving capacity payments for your EE project, you will need to participate through an RPM auction(s).\u00a0\u00a0These auctions include a Base Residual Auction (BRA), which occurs each May and secures each region\u2019s capacity three years in advance,\u00a0while establishing the\u00a0compensation that capacity resources will receive for their commitments.\u00a0\u00a0There can also be up to three incremental auctions per delivery year to account for adjustments in resource commitments. Only those with PJM membership access, though, are able to participate in RPM auctions.\u00a0\u00a0PJM also requires EE projects to take the following steps before they will accept their capacity bids in RPM auctions:<\/p>

  1. First you must submit an Initial Measurement and Verification (M&V) Plan to PJM. The Initial M&V plan will identify existing facilities and what they will be replaced with; provide details on the project; describe energy and capacity savings, and develop an on-going monitoring program for the project.<\/li>
  2. You need to establish credit with PJM before you will be allowed to participate in the RPM auction.\u00a0<\/li>
  3. Then an Energy Efficiency Resource Modification (EE MOD) can be submitted into the eRPM system.\u00a0<\/li>
  4. An Initial Post-Installation M&V Report is submitted to PJM. This will include results from audits and monitoring of the project.\u00a0<\/li>
  5. You must permit PJM or an independent third party to conduct post-installation M&V audits.\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>

    Once these steps are completed your EE project will be able to bid into the RPM auction and you will be eligible to receive capacity payments. Refer to PJM Manual 18 and 18b for the details of this PJM program.<\/p>

    As you might expect, though, the efforts to get your project qualified for capacity payments is time consuming, has financial costs, comes with some risk, (remember you are participating in a market) and is time sensitive.\u00a0\u00a0You can only receive payments for 4 years from the date of commission, so it becomes very important to be ready to bid your EE project into the capacity market as soon as possible to maximize your benefit.<\/p>

    To eliminate the costs and risks and to ensure access to the PJM RPM, you can partner with a third party, such as Onsite Utility Service Capital, LLS, which would split these proceeds equally with you for handling the complicated and onerous Energy Efficiency Capacity, RPM and monitoring processes as well as taking on the performance and market risks.<\/p>

    Act now to maximize your revenue from this newly found income stream.\u00a0Submit your project today for an estimate of additional revenue.<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>

    Onsite Utility Services' (OUS) Team has worked extensively with the PJM Reliability Pricing Model.\u00a0\u00a0Our energy professionals have helped our clients successfully bid developed Energy Efficiency projects into the RPM auction.\u00a0 OUS Team members come from diverse backgrounds in the energy industry, allowing us to provide our clients with a comprehensive view of energy opportunities.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-ous-capital-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onsiteutilityservices.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}