Case study · Singapore · team project experience
0.75 → under 0.60 kW/RT on a central chiller plant
Chiller plant system optimisation on a mixed-use development in Singapore. Team project experience demonstrating material improvement in specific power (kW/RT): the language of measured plant performance.
Mixed-use development · central plant · Mixed-use commercial
Starting performance
0.75 kW/RT
As reported for the operating plant before optimisation work
Achieved performance
< 0.60 kW/RT
Post-optimisation operating performance
Indicative energy impact
~20%
Order-of-magnitude plant energy reduction associated with the SP improvement
Classification
Measured engineering outcome
Not Negawatt Protocol issuance · not Proof of Conservation
Specific power · kW/RT
Before optimisation
0.75
Performance improvement
≥20%
plant energy intensity
After optimisation
<0.60
Central cooling plants are often the largest controllable electrical load in tropical commercial buildings. Spot readings and design figures rarely describe how the plant actually runs under real load, staging, and control sequences.
This project applied chiller plant system optimisation. the same discipline now productised on Negawatts.io as temporary instrumentation, performance studies, and measure, optimise, and verify pathways.
Specific power (kW/RT) is the headline metric: electrical input relative to cooling delivered. Moving from 0.75 kW/RT toward and under 0.60 kW/RT is a substantial change in plant economics and carbon intensity of cooling.
On the current platform, a comparable journey would begin with opportunity assessment or a Negawatt Hunt, then a Chiller Performance Study (from SGD 4,950, subject to site suitability), then operational improvement and re-measurement where justified.