Meet the Team
Nikita Gupta, PE
Engineering Project Manager
Education
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
Certifications/Licenses
Professional Engineer (PE)
Licensed Notary Public
Nikita is an Engineering Project Manager at EN-POWER GROUP interested in exploring innovative and effective design solutions to meet client needs. She has a passion for optimizing and developing energy models to streamline and improve analysis of building systems. Nikita has conducted energy audits, retro-commissioning studies, and energy reduction analyses on HVAC systems for over fifty (50) large commercial and multifamily buildings, making her well equipped to review designs and optimize building mechanical and distribution systems.
A cooling system upgrade saves a Manhattan multifamily 70 metric tons of carbon annually and receives $50,000 rebates
One of Nikita’s projects is the cooling system replacement at a 155-unit, 15-story cooperative building in Manhattan, NY. The building’s cooling tower and electric screw chiller both suffered from major performance issues: the cooling tower fan constantly short-cycled (i.e., turned off and on) leading to resident noise complaints and inefficient operation, and the chiller’s performance and reliability had greatly degraded. The chiller’s unreliability was exacerbated due to the fact a single chiller unit was carrying the cooling load of the entire building – meaning when the chiller broke down, residents were left completely without cooling.
As part of the cooling system upgrade, Nikita chose a modular electric chiller because it could provide three critical things: redundancy in case of equipment failure, significantly increased energy efficiency, and minimal on-site construction as it could be installed in pieces rather than requiring walls to be torn down. For the new cooling tower design, she selected high efficiency motors and variable frequency drives (VFDs) to further reduce energy use. In addition, she was able to incorporate both new systems into the site’s existing Building Management System (BMS) to increase ease of operation and reduce client costs. Nikita’s work is helping the building reduce its energy use by nearly 100,000 kWh and its carbon footprint by 70 metric tons annually, while also securing over $50,000 in funding from Con Edison’s Multifamily Energy Efficiency Program (MFEEP).