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If you spend more than about $1 million a year on energy, your potential savings are big enough to make this worth your time.
If you operate more than about 20 stores, your energy-management challenges are complex enough that you’ll welcome these ideas, specifically aimed at multisite retailers.
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Energy management systems gather facility and asset level energy data providing the control to initiate energy efficiency projects and effectively manage energy usage across a distributed organization.
Active Energy Response Programs
Automated Approach to Energy Management
Organizations which are forward thinking should understand its overall demands for energy in order to meet all possible consequences due to that certain uncertainty in predicting our ability to respond to our ever increasing energy needs.
In order to have a complete balance between energy supply and demand based on the range of parameters and to take advantage of the best available tariffs, an ideal solution would be to access the most economically viable energy sources when energy use is required.
Off-peak pricing is taken up by energy consumers to have financial gain through operational flexibility. The strategy of adjusting consumption patterns based on financial incentives is not something new. Stakeholders are already putting pressure on organizations to increase efforts in reducing use of traditional energy resources, which could eventually lead to consequent reduction of carbon footprint. By combining this drive with an active energy response program, optimum results on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emission will be achieved.
Automated approach to energy management is very important in active energy response. It has been historically proven that traditional manual control system is not efficient enough. With the help of programming a demand response manager or an active energy response manager to take into account some pre-defined scenarios like tariff-based incentives, electrical loads can be controlled. Managing electrical loads with this operation is possible using a device level or an asset.
Active Energy Response Programs Are Necessities of the Future
Remote data monitoring devices would be very big help in controlling HVAC and lighting systems in a location or an entire organization. Savings on electrical consumption is guaranteed and a consumer may choose to get involved in any event based on the availability of an active energy response which is specified by the utilities.
An enterprise will be able to analyze savings and point out reduction in emission as part of the combined goal in reducing carbon footprint and achieve environmentally friendly practices. With the use of a designated active energy response program like Verisae’s Energy Management Systems, you can initiate energy demand and control from your computer from any part of the world. It will also be possible to set ‘best case scenarios’ and manage energy portfolio with relative case.
Lawmakers are now focusing on reduction of carbon emissions in the big developing giants and in the developed countries around the world. It is therefore a priority issue for companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and curtail use of traditional energy sources. With pressures from various stakeholders pressing on companies to be environmentally friendly in operations, active energy response capabilities become a necessity for the planning and execution of any company for the future.
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Verisae helps measure, manage and reduce equipment and energy costs including the related business and environmental impacts of carbon emissions. The Sustainability Resource Planning (“SRP”) software platform improves operational efficiency, protects brand integrity and helps ensure regulatory compliance for distributed enterprises across many industries. Verisae delivers a broad range of sustainability solutions to dozens of clients globally with thousands of daily users including an extended network of third-party suppliers. Verisae’s integrated sustainability platform actively tracks millions of assets across thousands of sites worldwide.
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