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CollinsCEA is partnering with the State of Maine to build and maintain a database of all State-owned buildings and the associated energy use, emissions, and physical characteristics. The database is updated annually and used to track and analyze energy use over time and in relation to energy intensity and carbon reduction goals.

In our role as energy manager, CollinsCEA works with the Bureau of General Services and other State agencies to triage the portfolio of buildings through utility data analysis and scoping audits, identifying cost effective opportunities for decarbonization and energy efficiency improvements, supporting the State’s four-year action plan, Maine Won’t Wait.

CollinsCEA supports the Efficiency Maine Trust Commercial and Industrial Prescriptive Incentive (CIPI) Program through prescriptive measure development. CollinsCEA works with the Trust to develop and revise numerous electrification and controlled environment agriculture measures for the CIPI program. The work includes technology research, energy impact modeling of baseline and high-efficiency solutions, cost-benefit analysis, the creation of savings algorithms, and the development of the technical reference manual (TRM) entry. Measures include:

• Commercial heat pump water heaters

• Heat pump roof top units

• Stand-alone dehumidifiers for cannabis cultivation

• Packaged terminal heat pumps and vertical packaged terminal heat pumps in multi-family new construction

• Cannabis lighting and interactive HVAC effects

CollinsCEA provides additional ad-hoc support on a wide range of technical topics including technology assessments and project application reviews. We also provide support to Trust staff developing and delivering presentations to stakeholders and at conferences.

Nick is nationally recognized as an expert in energy-use and efficiency opportunities in controlled environment agriculture. He has published papers and presented at numerous conferences on the subject and is a member of ASTM Committee D37 on Cannabis. CollinsCEA has worked with cultivators and stakeholders throughout North America reviewing facility designs, troubleshooting existing cultivation facilities and their inability to meet environmental set-points, and in support of incentives from state and utility energy efficiency incentive programs. Our work includes detailed facility energy and environment metering, energy modeling, utility data and production analysis resulting in recommendations for low-cost and larger capital facility improvement measures.