Energy 2020 Case Studies


SCTE/ISBE is bringing cable operators and vendors together through Energy 2020 to create energy management solutions. As a result there are powerful stories being created that highlight how cable operators are making big strides toward the program’s goals by deploying energy technologies that are reducing consumption and avoiding added energy costs.

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As complied, arranged, modified, enhanced and edited, all license works and other separately owned materials contained in these case studies are subject to foregoing copyright notice. No part of these case studies shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, Inc. and it’s relevant partners. No patent liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained herein. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of these case studies, SCTE/ISBE assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. 

 

 

    

POWER PLANT INSTALLATION PROJECT – HEADEND IN BERLIN, CT
The 80,000 square-foot building is Comcast’s regional headquarters for five New England states and is the master facility for receiving and processing  television signals for distribution on the Comcast network.

Comcast and Bloom Energy teamed up to install a 400-kilowatt fuel cell system that is the first of its kind in all of Comcast. It will reduce the facility’s carbon emissions by an estimated 1.93 million pounds a year – the equivalent of what is produced annually by 185 cars or 121 homes.
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FACILITY EFFICIENCY AND COOLING PROJECT – NEXT-GEN EDGE
FACILITIES IN THE NETHERLANDS
Ziggo, a Liberty Global company, is the leading provider of communication and entertainment for consumers and companies in the Netherlands. Ziggo manages approximately 450 EDGE Facilities spread all over the country, many of which are located in residential areas.

Tizzon has established award-winning next-gen edge facilities on behalf of Ziggo, which use a cold storage air treatment system in combination with evaporative cooling. This technology dramatically reduces energy consumption levels in their edge facilities up to 40% lower than in similar facilities.
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SOLAR POWER INSTALLATION PROJECT – CABLE FACILITIES IN RHODE
ISLAND + CORPORATE AND EMPLOYEE SOLAR PROGRAMS
Through it’s Cox Conserves Program, Cox Communications is leading the industry in solar technology and has worked with many energy vendors to push its solar programs to new levels—maximizing energy cost avoidance with this alternative energy solution.

Recently, the company introduced an innovative energy consumption-monitoring tool from Empower/Velo Solar called PowerEnfo that enables employees to view their day-to-day energy usage while at work. Cox’s web-based Engauge Dashboard tool shows in real time how much energy each workplace is using.
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CCAP DEPLOYMENT PROJECT - HSD, VOD, AND SDV COMBINED INTO SINGLE PLATFORM IN NYC, NY
TWC deployed a multi-year plan to consolidate its CMTS and Edge QAM architecture to provide higher speeds to the customer using Converged Cable Access Platform with partner CASA Systems. The solution is predicted to consume an average of 30% less power while enabling almost double (93%) the productivity (higher bandwidth) across all 25 hub sites in NYC. 
Time Warner Cable achieved significant cost and energy savings. While increasing aggregate QAM count from 144k to 278k across 25 facilities, the Casa solution actually reduced energy costs. Compared to the legacy video and CMTS solutions, delivering only 144k QAMs, the CCAP solution reduced energy requirements by 42%. TWC engaged NYSERDA (New York State Energy and Development Authority), which confirmed energy savings exceed 11 million kWh per year. 
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ENERGY PROOF-OF-CONCEPT PROJECT - GRIED TIED SOLAR SYSTEM AND SUSTAINABLE 
HYBRID AC UPS POWER SYSTEM
Taking the industry leadership role, SCTE embarked on proof in concept modeling to include the deployment of solar power support of critical IT loads, LED lighting to reduce operational energy expenses, hydrogen fuel cell to support the critical IT loads and thus producing a true hybrid power system in the Exton, PA headquarter office.

Partnering with Alpha Technologies and Commscope, SCTE implemented a Solar Power System and Sustainable Hybrid AC Grid tied emergency powering system to simultaneously to provide redundant power for disaster recovery and to offset utility costs using renewable energy. All of these efforts have reduced the SCTE building utility demand by 50%.
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Fleet Optimization Projects 

 

    
FLEET UPFITTING AND WEIGHT REDUCTION PROJECT
Comcast and Knaphiede have partnered on smart upfitting to reduce the weight of their new vehicles to lower overall fuel consumption and costs. Comcast is also using it’s best practice—“Right Vehicle, Right Job” to increase vehicle performance and efficiency, Comcast modified vehicle up-fits to reduce weight and optimized engine performance. Comcast also performed extensive research to identify the best ways to incorporate alternative fuels in their current and future fleet planning.
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FLEET FUEL PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
Time Warner Cable is targeting an 8% improvement in MPG across 2,906 legacy vans creating significant cost savings from reduced fuel use and greenhouse gas reductions across the fleet. Time Warner Cable and Derive Efficiency conducted a pilot program to determine the effectiveness of a fuel efficiency solution.  After a 10-week evaluation of 19 vans, this trial revealed the potential fuel savings of 11% during engine idle and 8.2 gallons per 100 consumed.
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FLEET TRACKING, ROUTING, AND MANAGEMENT PROJECT
Liberty Global is committed to improving its energy efficiency by 15% each year through 2020. Virgin Media in the UK uses telematics data to help increase the efficiency of
their fleet through a company driver engagement scheme, which encourages better driving performance. This scheme has contributed to Virgin Media reducing the amount of diesel fuel used between 2013 and 2014 by more than a third.* In 2012, Virgin Media partnered with Fleetmatics, the largest [GPS] fleet management company in the Americas1, to improve some key efficiencies in their 2,600 vehicle fleet operations.

*This figure excludes any fuel used in hybrid cars or any additional diesel paid for by the company on fuel cards, or fuel used in employee vehicles that is claimed back through employee expense reimbursement.
1 Fleetmatics was named the Largest Fleet Management Solution in the Americas by Berg Insight’s “Fleet Management in the Americas – 4th Edition” report

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