Energy Management Services in Austin, TX

HVAC is typically the largest controllable line item in a commercial building's operating budget, and most of the waste is not equipment — it is scheduling, controls, and simultaneous heating and cooling nobody has looked at since the building opened. We routinely find suites conditioned to 70 degrees at 2 AM on a Sunday because a schedule was set during construction and never revisited.

CG Service Pros approaches energy management as an operating-cost problem with a measurable payback, not an efficiency slogan. We start by pulling your interval data from Austin Energy or CPS Energy and reading the load shape: base load, peak demand timing, weekend and overnight consumption, and how tightly demand peaks track outdoor temperature. That tells us in days whether your money is going to runtime, to demand charges, or to equipment that is fighting itself.

The interventions that pay back fastest are rarely the most expensive. Correcting schedules and setpoints, repairing failed economizers so the building uses free cooling during Austin's mild shoulder seasons, fixing simultaneous heating and cooling, staging equipment properly, adding variable frequency drives to constant-volume fans and pumps, and replacing failed sensors that have been driving controls off bad data. Several of these cost a service call and return money in the first billing cycle.

Where deeper work is justified, we design and install controls that match how the property is actually used: zone-level scheduling, occupancy and CO2-based ventilation, demand limiting to shave peak charges, remote monitoring with alarms that reach a person before a tenant does, and integration with existing building management systems rather than a rip-and-replace you do not need.

Austin Energy and CPS Energy both fund this work directly. Rebates cover VFDs, EC motors, controls, thermostats, chillers, cooling towers, energy recovery ventilators, and custom measures priced per kilowatt of demand reduction — and demand response enrollment pays annually on top. We handle the applications, the pre-approval, the measurement and verification documentation, and the post-installation inspection. It is common for a well-structured project to reach cash-flow-positive in the first year once incentives are applied.

You get measured results, not projections. We baseline before, verify after, and report actual kilowatt-hours and dollars against the baseline. If a measure does not perform the way we said it would, that shows up in your report from us rather than in a surprise from your utility bill.