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.

Merrick Incorporated Executive Director John Wayne Barker and Operations Director Pat Hanson sought to modernize the company’s HVAC controls in order to mitigate risk associated with an unsupported legacy controls system, plus enable automation and remote diagnostics /management, improve comfort, and save on energy costs. Minify Energy worked to audit, engineer, and propose a solution leveraging 75F building automation solutions, bipolar ionization, HVAC equipment service, and internal and external LED Lighting upgrades, plus financing solutions, grants and rebates to cost-justify the project, reduce the project costs and shorten the simple payback timeframe.