Electrification & Decarbonization
Leading Specialists in Electrification & Decarbonization
As your dedicated partner, we provide effective decarbonization solutions tailored to your facilities and unique goals. Our multidisciplinary team brings a wealth of experience and technical expertise, specializing in strategic energy planning. We excel at delivering high impact solutions to large enterprises, including tech firms, colleges, universities, and municipalities, empowering them to navigate the complexities of decarbonization and electrification with confidence.
Championing Retrofit Electrification and Decarbonization Solutions
Before decarbonization became a widespread goal, kW Engineering was pioneering energy efficiency retrofit projects for clients. Today, we continue to support these clients in their decarbonization efforts, specifically through the electrification of existing buildings.
Overcoming Retrofit Challenges
Our deep understanding of the unique challenges that existing buildings present on their decarbonization, and net zero journey sets us apart. Unlike new building construction, where all-electric systems can be economically integrated from the start, the cost to electrify existing buildings varies widely due to the unique specifics that can make electrification more challenging and expensive.
Solutions Oriented
We excel at overcoming retrofit challenges by providing creative, innovative, cost-effective design strategies for retrofit electrification. This ensures our clients achieve decarbonization goals on time and within budget. From initial planning to seamless execution, we empower organizations to embrace retrofit electrification with a specialized partner by their side.
Decarbonization & Electrification Planning
As your technical partner to broader ESG teams, kW Engineering helps you deliver actionable and realistic decarbonization plans tailored to your unique requirements. We guide you in assessing the sources of your carbon footprint and lay the groundwork for effective decarbonization strategies. Our expertise extends to planning for retrofit electrification, whether it involves replacing gas equipment with electric alternatives when due for replacement or preparing for replacements before failure. We help stakeholders plan and streamline portfolio-wide electrification programs with smart, cost-efficient design approaches. With extensive experience in developing retrofit electrification strategies for both government and private entities, kW Engineering ensures maximum cost-effectiveness by getting involved in the early stages of your project.
Need help establishing your energy consumption baseline? Our Smart Building Solutions can help you measure your energy efficiency efforts.
"Hybrid-Resilient" Solutions
Our hybrid-resilient approach involves converting a facility to all-electric while retaining some gas systems for backup and occasional peak loads. A hybrid approach is valuable in scenarios where resiliency is critical or where gas demand has high peaks. Hybrid-resilient solutions offer several key benefits including:
Cost Efficiency
This approach can significantly reduce initial costs, allowing more buildings to be "mostly" electrified faster with the same available funding.
Maximized GHG Reductions
We ensure that greenhouse gas reductions are maximized per dollar spent.
Enhanced Resilience
By maintaining some gas systems for backup, we improve resilience where it is needed most. Over time, as buildings are optimized to operate on heat pumps as much as possible, the remaining gas equipment can be phased out, further enhancing sustainability and cost-effectiveness.
