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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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An archaic, insecure, and vulnerable energy delivery systems fraught with risk and complexity, is enough to give the majority of those in charge the late night sweats. Some companies are just beginning to explore a 21st century solution, as they begin to increase their knowledge on energy and leveraging technology for efficiency gains.
An organization can travel quite a long way on a road toward sustainability, even as infrastructures and networks are being modernized to offer true control and lowering of risks.
Business owners are becoming uncertain, whenever they hear about greenhouse gas emissions, melting polar ice caps, and climate change. Should they even pay attention to these issues? What does sustainability really mean to their organizations? What risks related to “global climate change” do matter?
Organizations should be concerned about their corporate sustainability in terms of energy efficiency, as they can at the very least, attain significant cost savings through early action.
The amount of benefit you can expect to achieve from real-time energy management will depend a great deal on how much energy you consume now, how much you pay for it, and how much you’ve already done to reduce your energy cost.
A food retailer with some sophisticated energy management solutions was surprised at their immediate insights. They have a centralized control system that automatically shuts off the lights in every one of its 200-some regional stores after closing. They were confident the lights were going off under their control.
They learned otherwise by chance.
The company had implemented real-time energy monitoring to check the performance of their refrigerators and freezers. The same metering system could also monitor other electrical use. As they compared the numbers across locations, they learned that several stores were still leaving their lights on at night.
On further investigation, they found that their local electrical contractors had improvised a bypass of the remote-controlled lighting systems. The contractors had made it possible for the stores to leave the lights on all night.
Majority of commercial organizations are neither aware of, nor taking steps to gather these potential savings. Real-time energy management provides active monitoring of energy-using appliances, the control of assets, data integration and subsequent analysis.
It is the realization that proactive-thinking, forward-acting management of energy will deliver significant opportunity. Read this article and find out how companies are starting to gain control and shave significant costs from the bottom line.
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