Custom Building Products' Manufacturing Facility earns "Energy Project of the Year" award
The award recognizes Custom’s system for its high level of substantiated savings, which will allow the project to pay for itself within an estimated five-month timeframe. Custom offset the total project cost via rebates from Southern California Edison (SCE) and support from a Smart Grid Investment Grant that Honeywell received from the U.S. Department of Energy.
For the project, Custom enrolled its 142,000-square-foot facility in Honeywell’s automated demand response program (Auto DR), to control how facility equipment responds to SCE’s dynamic pricing structure. This pricing structure bases electrical rates for commercial and industrial customers on consumption levels and generation costs, meaning that prices rise significantly during periods of peak demand.