"KORE Consulting Group has provided a valuable service to our Owl's Head Development by coordinating all utilities and site construction work..."

-Shelton S. Stone
General Manager - Owls Head LLC

" KORE Consulting Group and Chain Electric are first of three design-build teams to get a Winn Dixie Standby Generator project permitted for construction."

-Carl St. Cin (Project Manager for Preservation)

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Using A Submetering Network To Optimize Development Utility And Communication Services

Developers have the opportunity to deploy submetering network technologies that enable minimized tenant utility costs, energy conservation, peak demand reduction, minimized water consumption, and valuable management services.  These “green” initiatives will also help to qualify developers for other benefits made available in a growing number of communities.

Submetering systems use a two way communication network, either wired or wireless, to read meters, control endpoints, and provide an information highway between a PC based control stations and connected tenants.  When a submetering network is designed with the electric, gas, and water infrastructure, benefits can be optimized, utility space requirements reduced, aesthetic quality enhanced, and control of system consumption optimized.

Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) allows developments to take commercial service from utility companies and distribute those reduced costs to tenants based on accurately metered consumption.  The only condition that is currently enforced is that most of the units must be occupied by transient tenants.  A waiver from the FPSC is currently needed to qualify, but that may not be the case after pending policy changes are enacted in the near future.

A recent business case developed by KCG estimates that a 75 unit development with 175,000 square feet of air conditioned space in the Florida panhandle will save tenants approximately $60,000 annually on electric, water, sewer, and gas utility charges alone. 

Additional benefits will include fiber optic based CATV, telephone, and high speed internet services to individual units.  KCG works with building designers, builders, consultants, developers, submetering component suppliers, tenant organizations, utility service providers, and communities to provide communication networks, user interfaces, and utility infrastructure consolidation designed to meet the aesthetic goals of the community and provide cost effective “green” solutions enabled by technology.

KCG can help you build cost effective and resource efficient solutions by incorporating the right mix of distributed generation, distribution, metering, communication, end point control, and services infrastructure design.

Contact KCG to discuss the opportunities that are available in your development.