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NexusCon 2025’s “Kickstarting Energy Savings” session goes straight after the problem the Untapped 87% white paper laid out: small-to-mid-size buildings are most of the building stock, and most still don’t have real controls or monitoring.
You’ll hear from Aaron Hastings (President and Founder, Apex Consulting Systems) and Drew Miller (Sustainability and Energy Conservation, Cal State Channel Islands) on what it actually took to get CSUCI moving again—when budgets got cut, staff turned over repeatedly, and even basics like “what’s our real $/kWh?” weren’t obvious because of solar netting.
The story is not “perfect tech in a perfect building”—it’s how they picked a first move that reduced noise, reduced workload, and created room for the next move.
Behind the paywall, you’ll get the real-world setup details and the uncomfortable lessons: why their first “AI + BAS tune-up” pitch was a hard no, what they did instead, and what had to be fixed organizationally before any optimization mattered.
You’ll see the kinds of early results facility teams actually care about—like cutting daily alarms from 3,000–5,000 down to ~200, and improving chiller-plant efficiency from ~1.37 kW/ton down to ~0.80 as the system stabilized—plus the messy reality that hit mid-stream (gateway gaps, comms dropouts, overrides everywhere, and a chiller repair that knocked multiple boards offline). If you’re trying to get energy savings started when your team is short-staffed and your systems aren’t “ready,” this recording shows what “progress, not perfection” looks like in practice.
Watch the full recording inside Nexus Pro →
NexusCon 2025’s “Kickstarting Energy Savings” session goes straight after the problem the Untapped 87% white paper laid out: small-to-mid-size buildings are most of the building stock, and most still don’t have real controls or monitoring.
You’ll hear from Aaron Hastings (President and Founder, Apex Consulting Systems) and Drew Miller (Sustainability and Energy Conservation, Cal State Channel Islands) on what it actually took to get CSUCI moving again—when budgets got cut, staff turned over repeatedly, and even basics like “what’s our real $/kWh?” weren’t obvious because of solar netting.
The story is not “perfect tech in a perfect building”—it’s how they picked a first move that reduced noise, reduced workload, and created room for the next move.
Behind the paywall, you’ll get the real-world setup details and the uncomfortable lessons: why their first “AI + BAS tune-up” pitch was a hard no, what they did instead, and what had to be fixed organizationally before any optimization mattered.
You’ll see the kinds of early results facility teams actually care about—like cutting daily alarms from 3,000–5,000 down to ~200, and improving chiller-plant efficiency from ~1.37 kW/ton down to ~0.80 as the system stabilized—plus the messy reality that hit mid-stream (gateway gaps, comms dropouts, overrides everywhere, and a chiller repair that knocked multiple boards offline). If you’re trying to get energy savings started when your team is short-staffed and your systems aren’t “ready,” this recording shows what “progress, not perfection” looks like in practice.
Watch the full recording inside Nexus Pro →
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This is a great piece!
I agree.