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Legend Power's Electrical Harmonizer-AVR: a Significant Contributor to LEED Certification
Legend Power's Electrical Harmonizer-AVR: a Significant Contributor to LEED Certification
About this update from Legend Power Systems Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n Jun. 9, 2010 (Canada NewsWire Group) -- Legend Power Systems Inc. ("Legend Power") (TSX: LPS) (FSE: XLE) recently engaged Mindscape Innovations to complete a Performance Assessment by Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) of the company's patented smart grid technology, the Electrical Harmonizer-AVR. This resulted in Legend Power's technology achieving a "very noteworthy" five point contribution level, effectively opening up the attractive design-in market for new construction and major facility retrofits.\nMindscape is one of Canada's leading professional services firms in the commercial and residential energy ratings market, providing consulting and certification services for all LEED Canada and matching LEED US programs, as well as EnerGuide and ENERGY STAR.\nLEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED provides building owners and operators a concise framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions. Over 5 billion square feet of commercial building space is involved with the LEED green building certification system (Source: U.S. Green Building Council).\nThe Electrical Harmonizer-AVR's direct LEED point contribution ranges from 3-5 points making it a significant contributor to any of its related point categories (14%-28%), and a strong component of a building's overall LEED score required to be Certified (6%-13%).\n"5 points is a very noteworthy contribution in my experience, it is rare that a single product/technology can have this high of an impact. I don't have experience with evaluating other voltage optimization technologies, but since LEED emphasizes reductions in energy cost (rather than just energy), Legend Power has the advantage over many other energy savings technologies since it impacts electricity (the more expensive portion of a building's energy use), com...