The U.S. Green Building Council in 2009 announced that as a pre-condition to LEED certification, new projects will need to provide data concerning energy and water usage. This is designed to address a disconnect between what is designed by architects and engineers- versus what really is going on. Thus, performance information can be compared with actual results. Thus, if a builder claims that a certain amount of energy will be saved by a given fixture, the data will need to be collected to prove accuracy of the claim(s). One of the key benefits to this data will be benchmarking for future facilities to determine what the real results are for various green construction/facility management efforts.
One of the future trends we will see grow over the next couple years are smart meters. besides tracking critical data, these meters can control energy usage. Thus, if peak electrical costs occur at a given time, a smart meter might let the temperature in a building increase one or two degrees during that time to minimize electrical usage then and to save more money. In the future these systems will control all electrical and heating/air conditioning system to dramatically save money.
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