Real-time Energy Services: NOW.. AND TOMORROW

Authors

  • John J. “Jack” McGowan CEM Vice President Energy Control, Inc.

Abstract

Real time Energy Services and Performance Contracting in par-
ticular are concepts whose time is now, and though funding energy
upgrades from cost reduction is not new, there have been some
changes to the concept recently. Important Performance Contracting
developments may make this the best capital improvement idea
around.
Performance Contracting, offered by Energy Service Companies
(ESCOs), is an excellent answer to shrinking capital improvement
spending. In the past two quarters, private companies have reduced or
eliminated capital spending plans, and the public sector can be ex-
pected to do the same. With all these factors, it seems an excellent time
to revisit performance contracting and especially these key topics:
- Energy service measures (what is being funded?),
- Financing (how are projects funded?) and
- Real-time energy services (how will success be measured?)

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Author Biography

John J. “Jack” McGowan, CEM Vice President Energy Control, Inc.

John J. “Jack” McGowan, CEM, is vice president of Energy Control Inc. (ECI), an energy service company and system integrator specializing in value-based real-time services including performance contracting for public and private organizations. ECI has a Continuous Digital Control (CDC) strategy that merges traditional energy automation with Business to Business (B2B) solutions to integrate multiple systems via the Internet. This allows customers to make decisions with real-time dynamic information from a many sources to optimize facility and business management.

McGowan has published five books and 100+ articles on business and technical topics, including Distributed DDC, A Guide to Building Automation, and Networking Building Automation & Control Systems. McGowan has published 100+ articles, and speaks regularly at international conferences. He develops and teaches seminars in the U.S. for Association of Energy Engineers and Southeast Asia Centre for Management Technology, and also teaches at universities in Phoenix and N.M.

McGowan sits on the Technical Advisory Board of Energy User News, is contributing editor of the E-Zine for Automatedbuildings.com and is associate editor of Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment. He was named “International Energy Professional of The Year” in 1997 by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), and has been listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Millennium Edition & 1994- 1995, 1996-1997 editions, Marquis/Reed Publishing.

McGowan is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM); Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional, Certified Demand Side Manager, and a Certified Cogeneration Professional.

Energy Control, Inc.
P.O. 6907
Albuquerque, NM 87197
jackmcgowan@energyctrl.com
(505) 890-2888

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Published

2023-07-11

How to Cite

McGowan, J. J. “Jack” . (2023). Real-time Energy Services: NOW. AND TOMORROW . Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment, 22(1), 52–63. Retrieved from https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/SPEE/article/view/20291

Issue

2002: Vol 22 Iss 1 2002-2003

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Articles