Five years ago, Kaiser Permanente set a new vision for how they use energy at their facilities nationwide – to achieve carbon neutrality in 2020. The cornerstone of their plan is to reduce their facility energy use as much as possible by implementing data analytics. Then they install fuel cells and solar photovoltaics to get ever closer to achieving their carbon neutral goal. In 2015, Kaiser Permanente implemented a 4-site pilot of fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) software to test their building optimization approach. The FDD analysis identified energy savings that would repay the cost of the pilot in less than six months. Since then, Kaiser Permanente expanded their FDD implementation to 69 buildings covering 7 million sq ft. Over 100,000 building automation syste

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