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A fantastic way to reduce your environmental impact, as well as keeping pounds in your pocket, is to increase your energy efficiency. 

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Auditing

Baseline Energy Consumption

Before attempting to increase efficiency it is necessary to establish the current energy consumption. The level of detail possible to acquire from this stage is determined by the energy provider, the tariff type and whether you have a smart meter.

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  1. Baseline energy consumption

  2. Seasonal effects

  3. Energy intensity indicator

Predictive Energy Consumption

Cataloguing appliances specifications, mapping the production layout, schedule and usage. Building a detailed picture of the conditions in which energy is consumed. 

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  1. Energy intensive processes

  2. Coinciding intensive processes

  3. Methodical inefficiencies 

  4. Low hanging fruit

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Actual Energy Consumption 

Comprehensive, real time understanding of your energy usage established by installing power monitors on each electricity drawing appliance.

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  1. Measure real time power drawn 

  2. Collect data for analytics

  3. Visualise energy usage

  4. Appliance inefficiencies 

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Reduction

Understanding where in your production facility energy is being consumed is the first step towards increasing efficiency. The next is to do something about it.

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Maintain

Many aspects of any production facility require routine maintenance to ensure optimal performance due to general wear and tear or degradation. With a formal energy audit, you can understand which of these maintenance tasks are the most important to keep on top. A good example of this is lagging on your glycol lines.

Innovate

Often production facilities have grown organically as the business has expanded. New equipment may have compromised efficiency due to space requirements and older equipment's efficiency may be compromised by the introduction of new equipment.

An example of this may be the effect that new fermentors have on the efficiency of your chillers.

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There may also be opportunities to rework or reconfigure. Using latent heat for example.

Upgrade

Sometimes, the equipment is no longer up to the task. Understanding inefficiency, return on investment, carbon legislation and new technologies are the keys towards confident investment in new equipment.

What it looks like

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Energy Audit

4 - 6 Weeks

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Realtime Energy Consumption

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Detailed power consumption of all equipment

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Report mapping power consumption

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Areas for improvement

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Energy Reduction

Feasibility Study into Solutions

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Progress report on efficiency improvements

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Report on energy-related emissions reduced.

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Assistance with funding option

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