TheRide Installs Energy Management Control System

System will provide cost savings up to 20 percent

“As a cost-conscious organization, TheRide actively seeks new and innovative ways to reduce costs, as well as improve efficiencies,” said Terry Black, maintenance manager for TheRide. “This new energy management control system will allow us to save up to 20 percent in operational costs.”

The energy management system, a programmable Johnson Controls Metasys system, allows timed control of the temperatures throughout TheRide’s main office and at its Blake and Ypsilanti transit center facilities.

This new system will allow TheRide to control the heating, cooling and lighting schedules throughout the day and night, as well as automatically control the temperatures and lighting in different areas of each building.

The old energy management system could not effectively vary the temperature when building spaces were unoccupied, leading to significant losses of energy. TheRide anticipates savings in reduced natural gas usage and maintenance costs, and expects to recover its $78,000 investment in the new system in two years.

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