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See how school districts, campuses and venues use BERT to switch off the energy their buildings waste when nobody’s there. Each project’s savings depend on how many devices BERT controls, what they are, and when the building is empty. That’s exactly what a site review pins down.
K-12 · North Carolina
638 BERT Smart Plugs across 12 schools and the Board of Education switch off vending machines, charging carts, projectors, printers and water coolers overnight, on weekends and on holidays.
K-12 · Connecticut
In a 14-measure performance contract, BERT plug load control was one of the first measures completed, and it had the fastest payback of all 14.
K-12 · California
Working with district IT to bring classroom Smart TVs under control raised annual savings by about a third, using the same number of controllers.
K-12 · Pennsylvania
A rural district whose buildings are occupied only about 35% of the time now switches classroom, office and break-room devices off for more than 5,700 hours a year.
Venues & Commercial · Chicago
Facilities staff now switch every luxury suite's TVs and refrigerators from one office, instead of visiting 133 suites before and after every event.
Project Spotlight · New Jersey
One of BERT’s largest deployments: 3,800 BERT devices across 44 buildings and 5.5 million square feet of educational space, delivered with DCO Energy as part of the district’s Energy Savings Improvement Program.
Project Spotlight · California
A California Energy Commission–funded demonstration that integrates 2,500 BERT Smart Plugs with the campus Johnson Controls Metasys® building automation system across 10 campus buildings.
White Paper · Strategy & Market · September 2026
Plug and process loads are about a third of a typical commercial building’s electricity, yet they are rarely controlled. What’s inside that third, why the gap has persisted, and what becomes possible once it’s measured and controlled.
Watch: BERT + Your BAS (0:25)White Paper · Technical · September 2026
Why a building automation system and plug load management do different jobs, why whole-building integration between them has been rare, and how plug load control works standalone by design and connects to a BAS through open protocols when a project calls for it.
White Paper · Programs & Policy · September 2026
How a credible plug load program moves from an early estimate to a measured post-installation baseline and ongoing device-level reporting, and what “measured” should mean to an owner, an ESCO or a utility program reviewer.
White Paper · Programs & Policy
A practical overview of how facilities cut plug and process load energy: choosing a champion, auditing devices, building the business case, device-specific tactics, occupant engagement, and the main control technologies.
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