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Savings & Impact Opportunity

Your Building Could Help You Save 30% on Energy Costs.

Minimize Energy. Simplify the Process.

Minify = Minimize + Simplify. Minify Energy makes it easy to understand your current energy costs and where to start reducing consumption, saving money, and increasing the value of your building. Minify Energy helps minimize energy consumption and costs while improving indoor environments, productivity, property value, operational efficiencies, and global sustainability.

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Energy Efficiency

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Now is the Time to Upgrade to LED Lighting. LED offers high-quality lighting, enhancing the comfort and safety of your environment, with significant energy savings (50%+) year-over-year to greatly reduce your operating expenses. Right now, unprecedented incentives make it the smartest time to upgrade.

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Achieve both energy savings and improved comfort and productivity through optimized IAQ, temperature, pressure, humidity, lighting and occupancy management. With monitoring, alerts, adjustments and diagnostics you can efficiently manage properties remotely with data-informed decisions or automation thereby reducing maintenance and service expenses in the process.

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Whether dealing with chillers, boilers, RTU’s, Air Handling Units to Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERVs), Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs), efficient motors, or Power Factor Correction, Minify Energy can help you assess and optimize your HVAC efficiency, delivering a healthy, safe, comfortable and productive environment for occupants and achieving operational value for building owners and mangers.

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Your building envelope - from roof to walls, doors and windows - affects the energy efficiency for heating and cooling. Minify Energy can help you assess your building and identify opportunities to improve your R value.

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Minify Energy Water Conservation — Water Conservation

For many building owners, particularly those who operate multi-family buildings, water can be the highest utility bill you pay. Minify Energy helps assess and reduce your water bills while still maintaining optimal plumbing needs.

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Renewables

Solar Renewable Energy

Solar arrays can help your organization become energy independent and resilient, generating power to offset utility costs, and generating a range of rate-, tax- and other incentives, often with payback under 10 years. Other renewable energy sources, including geothermal and wind, could bolster generation and savings.

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The growth of electric vehicles (EVs) and the behavior of EV drivers are increasing the demand for electric vehicle charging stations. By providing charging stations, you will be positioned as a leader committed to both environmental sustainability, your customers and employees. Utilities are evolving their energy efficiency programs to provide incentives for EV charging stations - and some will cover the majority of the cost of equipment, installation, or both!

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Consultation & Services

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With a site visit and walk-through, Minify Energy will unearth and help prioritize projects that have the most value to your organization’s needs, looking across utility bills, HVAC, controls, lighting, envelope, renewable generation and other energy and environment factors.

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Utility Bill Audits & Analysis

Audit your bills for potential errors, tax savings, and rate changes that can net you thousands in potential immediate and ongoing savings. Minify provides utility bill analysis and savings for buildings in all 50 states. And with a guaranteed savings model there are no upfront costs for this service.

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Project Management

Minify is an all-in-one turnkey contractor and installer of energy efficiency projects that help you save money by saving energy. We identify, prioritize and implement projects from start to finish. Think of us as a general contractor of energy efficiency projects.

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From the Blog:

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Minify Energy In the News: Saving Cash, Carbon with Lighting Upgrade

This month Finance & Commerce writer Frank Jossi focused his “Sustainable" column on “Saving cash, carbon with lighting upgrade” features Minify Energy. Check it out.

Take a Fresh Look at LED Lighting

Have you upgraded all the lighting in your building to LED? Are you sure? According to the latest 2022 US Department of Energy report, approximately 56% of commercial buildings still have not upgraded to LED Lighting. Anecdotally, we have found that many of our clients BELIEVE they have already converted their facility to LED Lighting, only to realize after a free Minify Energy assessment that only a small portion is actually converted. Considering the savings potential as well as the many other beneficial reasons discussed below, we think it’s worth a second look!

Day & Night: What a Difference New Lighting Can Make

Minify Energy is proud of a recent LED lighting upgrade completed for a large-scale commercial laundry facility in St. Paul. This facility, now benefitting from increased brightness, light quality, and a greatly improved working environment, works around the clock cleaning medical garments for many of the Twin Cities’ largest and busiest hospitals and clinics. Upon initial assessment, Minify Energy conducted light meter readings that ranged from 7 to 20-footcandles with a great degree of variance across the 85,000 SF facility.

Maximizing Rooftop Unit (RTU) Retrofits

RTUs typically represent a significant portion of energy consumption for a building, especially if they are the primary means of heating and cooling. And, they likewise present several opportunities for energy conservation and savings. And, while energy efficiency is a great reason to optimize your equipment, these updates can improve your tenants’ comfort, extend equipment life, and provide valuable operations and maintenance insights.

Greening the Minneapolis Green Zone

Minify Energy has been helping Minneapolis businesses leverage “Green Zone” incentives for community enhancements through energy-efficiency projects.

Minify Energy completed 7 projects in the North Green Zone with commercial and nonprofit organizations. Our efforts in the North Green Zone resulted in a 56% reduction in energy costs for participating businesses, and 59% of project costs were covered by incentives, delivering a 2.4-year simple payback. The combined projects reduced energy consumption by 334,427 kWh per year, which is equivalent to 235 metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions..

Case Study

Bringing New Light to The Pacific Building

Case Study

We’re sharing a recent LED Lighting project profile and the benefits to the owner, property manager, tenants, and the city. This is one of several projects Minify Energy has conducted in the Minneapolis North Green Zone. The project reduced lighting energy by 66%, and with 68% of the total project cost covered by grants and rebates, the owner saw a 1.3-year payback, while enhancing the indoor environment with 30%+ lighting improvement to help tenants in their operations.

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Nonprofit Solar Incentives Cover System Costs

Nonprofit organizations have a wealth of new incentives to help in their adoption and immediate ownership of clean energy solutions, including solar arrays and energy-efficiency updates to LED Lighting and HVAC systems. We’re going to focus on solar since the incentives are incredibly motivating!

2023: A Great Year to Go Solar

An Array of Reasons to Invest in Solar in 2023
If you haven’t looked at solar panels for your building recently, it’s time to take another look. In 2023, the combination of sustainably generating your own clean energy, locking in rates, getting utility incentives, tax credits, accelerated depreciation, and other incentives can all make for an attractive package that “pencils out” well, often under 5 years ROI with 25 more years of pure money generation while the sun shines.

Rising Energy Costs: What You Can Do

2022 has been a tough year for those paying utility bills. And, this year we’ve heard several building owners, managers, and tenants express frustrations around blown utility budgets by midyear, primarily driven by natural gas increases.

179D Tax Deduction Offers up to $5/sf for Commercial Building Energy-Efficiency Projects

For 2023, 179D Nearly Triples Tax Incentives, Lowers the Thresholds, and Expands Eligibility to Tax Exempt Organizations.

The 179D Energy Efficient Commercial Building Deduction in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has some of the most significant updates to incentives for property owners and designers to improve the efficiency of their buildings.

Bigger Incentive with Lower Energy Savings Threshold

The new Act raises the deduction value from the current maximum of $1.88 per square foot up to a maximum of $5.00 per square foot. In addition, the Act lowered the minimum required savings in total annual energy and power cost from a 50% reduction to 25% reduction.