The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the LEED Zero Energy certification to Delta, a global provider of IoT-based smart green solutions, making it the first green building in Fremont, California, and the second in the Silicon Valley Bay Area. The award, given to environmentally friendly structures that produce as much electricity as they use, was earned by further implementing Delta’s own solutions on this LEED Platinum-certified building. With the aid of a brand-new solar PV carport and a 330kWh Delta energy storage system, the structure is now producing more than 1.4 million kWh of green electricity annually. Delta’s technologies have enabled 32 green buildings worldwide, fostering sustainable cities.
“Delta Electronics continues to set the industry standard for building performance, just as Fremont pioneers clean technologies. One of the first private sector LEED Platinum buildings in California was the company’s built-to-suit Americas headquarters in Fremont. According to Lily Mei, mayor of Fremont, “Today, Delta Electronics establishes another milestone as only the second facility in the entire Bay Area to achieve LEED Zero-Energy.” As one of the greenest cities in the country, she continued, “We’re proud that Delta Electronics continues to demonstrate sustainability through thoughtful application of technology, including using its Fremont facility as a testing ground for many of its own products while working through pandemic disruptions to invest even more in our community.”
“Fremont has been Delta’s home in the Americas for over 30 years, so it is an honour for us to contribute to our community with the environmental and social benefits of the city’s very first LEED Zero Energy green building,” said Kelvin Huang, president of Delta Electronics (Americas). Our green building’s net-zero energy capabilities will help Delta’s RE100 project, which is a commitment to run all of our operations on renewable energy by 2030, even more. Delta shows how its ESG-integrated business model can support humankind’s environmental aspirations by creating smart energy-saving solutions that can promote green buildings and sustainable cities.
The Delta Americas HQs building is an example of what a fully integrated solution can look like, helped by an energy-conscious design that takes advantage of geographical advantages specific to Fremont while taking into account the productivity and needs of its operations. Recent improvements made feasible by Delta’s own IoT-based Smart Green Solutions include:
- The faciity generates over 1.4 milion kWh of renewabe electricity through a 616kW rooftop solar PV system and a recently constructed 504kW bi-facial PV carport system, both supported by Delta’s high-efficiency PV inverters. That green energy output covers 100% of its consumption needs over a ful calendar year.
- The recent addition of a 330 kWh Deta energy storage system helps to optimize energy management in the facility.
- A recent enhancement of Delta’s data center cooling solution, featuring a dedicated economizer supported by our own DC brushless electronically commutated (EC) fans and variabe frequency drives for HVAC applications, have contributed significantly in lowering the annual power usage effectiveness (PUE) of the building’s data center from 1.5 originally to as low as 1.25.
- Optimized energy management is aso attained by the implementation of Delta’s next-generation SCADA system and building control platform. The former is VTScada, the industry’s most powerful SCADA system, developed by Canadian-based Trihedral, a Delta Group Company; the latter is the enteliWEB building control platform, developed by Canadian-based Delta Controls, also a Delta Group Company. These platforms integrate seamlessly with the existing building sub-systems, such as HVAC, LED lighting and other energy-intensive applications, to create set points, collect data and track trends, create reports, and manage alarms, remotely. With unlimited scalability, this solution grows with the facility as new solutions are integrated to ensure lower energy consumption.
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