#4. Energy savings at manufacturing plant beyond LED, VFD and idling
Complex energy audit does not look at energy alone. It considers how energy use affects core business - production, quality, scrap, employee productivity.
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02, 2020
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01, 2020
#3. The 4 reasons energy audit is valuable to your business
In previous post of the "Energy Audit Series" we talked about What makes energy audit free and How is energy inefficiency alike health issues. In this post we will dive a bit deeper into how energy audit creates value to companies. I said it before and will say it again: Energy audit by itself [...]
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01, 2020
#1. Energy Audit: why bother?
What is energy audit? Energy audit is a consulting project that finds out how your plant can maintain stable production and quality, while using less utilities - electricity, natural gas and water. An audit worth its fees relies on extensive direct measurements, detailed interviews with production and maintenance managers and comparison of energy consumption [...]
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10, 2019
Our Refrigeration Optimization project won Clean50 Top Project Award
GreenQ Partners, an engineering-consulting firm based in Toronto, has been awarded a prestigious Clean50 Top Project award for Industrial Refrigeration Optimization project completed in 2019. Refrigeration plants are typically among the biggest electricity consumers in the food manufacturing process, as they are set up without consideration for minimizing electricity consumption. [...]
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11, 2018
Are you aiming at the right energy targets?
A friendly maintenance manager told me recently: “We will first do all we can with our big energy users and then proceed to an energy audit”. 'Big ticket items first' approach to energy management may hurt business and can hurt maintenance manager personally. This hurt can be avoided. If started right, big and impactful energy [...]
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10, 2018
How energy savings can add extra holidays at your plant?
A recent report from SaveONEnergy described results of a lighting retrofit at Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara. Article states that annual electricity saving are "the equivalent of 400 room bookings". While expressing results of retrofit in term dear to hotel managers is definitely a step in the right direction, this comparison understates results by [...]
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07, 2018
Submetering, EMIS and Energy Management System: what is the difference?
Various terms are used in relation to collecting and processing of energy consumption data. Some of the more common terms are submetering, energy management information system, monitoring and targeting (M&T), measurement and verification (M&V). Although these terms relate to overlapping activities, they are not equivalent in content, cost and, most importantly, in value for business. [...]
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06, 2018
What makes energy efficiency projects fail?
We all agree that Energy Management is important, even C-levels agree. Still too often it's not done. Why is that? This 2003 article - Overcoming Barriers to Effective Energy Management in Industrial Settings - names several barriers which I list below with my comments : Lack of Organizational Commitment If senior management is not committed to [...]
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05, 2018
Ducking peak hours to reduce Global Adjustment is a serious game in Ontario
Yesterday I attended an interesting presentation at Energy Solutions Exhibition in Hamilton - a serious approach of Peak Power Inc to reducing demand during peak hours. Peak Power considers peak chasing a game of smarts, and they lots of them to the table. Weather your company belongs to Class A of Class B, Global Adjustment is [...]
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05, 2018
How has 3M Canada cut energy use by 32%? Part 6: 3 tips to succeed with energy projects from 3M
In this post we shall conclude describing how 3M has achieved outstanding energy cost reduction results. These publication has resulted from interview with Andrew Hejnar, Energy Manager of 3M Canada. This post completes the story started in previous publications: Part 1: How does 3M take big energy decisions Part 2: Energy standards increase savings Part [...]