Industrial retrocommissioning (RCx) aims to improve the efficiency of existing mechanical systems without replacing major components. While RCx has typically focused on commercial buildings, the industrial sector also offers significant savings opportunities. Energy Trust of Oregon has successfully implemented RCx in the industrial sector, achieving over $162 million in annual energy savings. RCx in industry can optimize complex systems like compressed air, refrigeration, and central plants. Case studies demonstrate savings from simple measures like setpoint changes, equipment repairs, and control optimizations. Lessons indicate RCx is well-suited for high-tech industries and requires technical expertise to navigate complex industrial processes and systems.
Dr Callum Rae - A New Approach to Energy Centre Design
http://www.ktpscotland.org.uk/ViewArticle/tabid/4421/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/10338/Callum-Rae--Hurley-Palmer-Flatt.aspx
Make an impact on your environmental balance sheet:
1. Adopt a clear plan that is simple to measure and communicate to stakeholders.
2. Reduce your carbon footprint and environmental impact.
3. Improve public, market and leadership efficacy perceptions of your company.
4. Instill pride in employees, who know that their company is taking real steps forward to conserve energy.
Engagement Coordinator Megan Hoye gave a presentation on CEE's research projects to the American Institute of Architects Minnesota's, Committee on the Environment.
Accelerating the Benefits of Food and Bev Sustainability ProgramsSchneider Electric
Food and Beverage manufacturers can strengthen their brand and mitigate business risks by providing more transparency to their customers and stakeholders. Customers want to know more about the brands they buy, and regulatory agencies want to ensure food and beverage manufacturers are environmentally and socially responsible. This white paper demonstrates how using a plan / do / check / act methodology to drive energy management and sustainability programs can lower costs, improve profitability, and control risk.
Research Associate Dr Callum Rae discusses
the challenges presented by the growth in the
Energy Centre market, and outlines our alternative
approach to Energy Centre design, which has
successfully been applied to the AECC Energy
Centre project.
As the highly prestigious London Wall Place
project approaches completion of the shell
and core, Director, James O’Byrne reviews the
project and the application of BIM, and discusses
the various benefits on the overall design and
coordination process.
Diesel fuel is now a Category 3 flammable liquid.
Technical Board Director Wyn Turnbull reports
on the impact to diesel storage and use, as the
result of the recent Classification, Labelling and
Packaging of Chemical (CLP) Regulations 2015
which have replaced the now revoked CHIP
Regulations.
Associate Director Paul Scriven provides a brief
overview of the WELL Building Standard and
discusses why and how its popularity is growing.
Finally, Group Director Robert Thorogood discusses
how far standardisation of controls and automation
have developed using the IEC 61850 integration
standard, and what the benefits may bring to the
control of power distribution.
Paul Flatt, Group Chairman and CEO,
Hurley Palmer Flatt.
Dr Callum Rae - A New Approach to Energy Centre Design
http://www.ktpscotland.org.uk/ViewArticle/tabid/4421/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/10338/Callum-Rae--Hurley-Palmer-Flatt.aspx
Make an impact on your environmental balance sheet:
1. Adopt a clear plan that is simple to measure and communicate to stakeholders.
2. Reduce your carbon footprint and environmental impact.
3. Improve public, market and leadership efficacy perceptions of your company.
4. Instill pride in employees, who know that their company is taking real steps forward to conserve energy.
Engagement Coordinator Megan Hoye gave a presentation on CEE's research projects to the American Institute of Architects Minnesota's, Committee on the Environment.
Accelerating the Benefits of Food and Bev Sustainability ProgramsSchneider Electric
Food and Beverage manufacturers can strengthen their brand and mitigate business risks by providing more transparency to their customers and stakeholders. Customers want to know more about the brands they buy, and regulatory agencies want to ensure food and beverage manufacturers are environmentally and socially responsible. This white paper demonstrates how using a plan / do / check / act methodology to drive energy management and sustainability programs can lower costs, improve profitability, and control risk.
Research Associate Dr Callum Rae discusses
the challenges presented by the growth in the
Energy Centre market, and outlines our alternative
approach to Energy Centre design, which has
successfully been applied to the AECC Energy
Centre project.
As the highly prestigious London Wall Place
project approaches completion of the shell
and core, Director, James O’Byrne reviews the
project and the application of BIM, and discusses
the various benefits on the overall design and
coordination process.
Diesel fuel is now a Category 3 flammable liquid.
Technical Board Director Wyn Turnbull reports
on the impact to diesel storage and use, as the
result of the recent Classification, Labelling and
Packaging of Chemical (CLP) Regulations 2015
which have replaced the now revoked CHIP
Regulations.
Associate Director Paul Scriven provides a brief
overview of the WELL Building Standard and
discusses why and how its popularity is growing.
Finally, Group Director Robert Thorogood discusses
how far standardisation of controls and automation
have developed using the IEC 61850 integration
standard, and what the benefits may bring to the
control of power distribution.
Paul Flatt, Group Chairman and CEO,
Hurley Palmer Flatt.
How green standards are changing data center design and operationsSchneider Electric
An effort is underway to harmonize certain energy-efficiency standards. Could global standardization ultimately diminish the technical effectiveness of such standards? Which will emerge as the de facto standards? This session will explore these questions, as well in data center efficiency and sustainability guidelines.
Strategies for making existing buildings in Brazil more energy efficient and environmentally responsible. Describes strategies for creating high performance buildings.
Paul Hamilton, Schneider Electric: Lean and Clean: Equipping Modern Manufactu...guest3e1229f
On Friday, March 19, Alliance staff and industry experts discussed energy efficiency's role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector.
Presentation I gave at the Future Grid Forum in Sydney on 18 March 2015. Introducing ARENA's view on the challenges with integrating renewable energy and grids, and ARENA's draft investment priorities.
Energy Management Impact on Distributed Control Systems (DCS) in Industrial E...Schneider Electric
Today, the pressure is on enterprises to meet environmental targets. The prospect of losing business if sustainability objectives are not met is very real. This is leading to a future where top environmental performers will become market leaders. To remain competitive, companies need to produce goods in an energy efficient manner. This paper examines industrial efficiency improvement measures that focus on equipment, process, and people.
Overcoming the Challenges of Large Capital Programs/ProjectsScottMadden, Inc.
Effective capital program/project delivery is a critical competency for any electric utility to achieve high performance. However, project scope creep, schedule delays, and cost increases have become the rule rather than the exception. Over the past 10 years, the electric utility industry has seen large demands on its projects and construction management organizations to ensure compliance with a number of concerns. Large capital programs/projects come with a variety of complicated planning, implementation, and workforce/vendor management challenges. Using EPU projects as an example, we will provide you with ways to overcome these challenges for any large capital program/project. This article can help you successfully plan, deliver, and control/monitor your large capital program/project.
Energy efficient practices have become pervasive in the data center market as providers and customers alike strive to reduce their carbon footprint and meet corporate sustainability goals. Equinix is at the forefront of innovating and driving technologies that increase the efficiency of building, operating and running our data centers, while at the same time maintaining the high standard of excellence our customers require.
For more information, visit http://www.equinix.com.au/why-equinix/green-by-design/
How green standards are changing data center design and operationsSchneider Electric
An effort is underway to harmonize certain energy-efficiency standards. Could global standardization ultimately diminish the technical effectiveness of such standards? Which will emerge as the de facto standards? This session will explore these questions, as well in data center efficiency and sustainability guidelines.
Strategies for making existing buildings in Brazil more energy efficient and environmentally responsible. Describes strategies for creating high performance buildings.
Paul Hamilton, Schneider Electric: Lean and Clean: Equipping Modern Manufactu...guest3e1229f
On Friday, March 19, Alliance staff and industry experts discussed energy efficiency's role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector.
Presentation I gave at the Future Grid Forum in Sydney on 18 March 2015. Introducing ARENA's view on the challenges with integrating renewable energy and grids, and ARENA's draft investment priorities.
Energy Management Impact on Distributed Control Systems (DCS) in Industrial E...Schneider Electric
Today, the pressure is on enterprises to meet environmental targets. The prospect of losing business if sustainability objectives are not met is very real. This is leading to a future where top environmental performers will become market leaders. To remain competitive, companies need to produce goods in an energy efficient manner. This paper examines industrial efficiency improvement measures that focus on equipment, process, and people.
Overcoming the Challenges of Large Capital Programs/ProjectsScottMadden, Inc.
Effective capital program/project delivery is a critical competency for any electric utility to achieve high performance. However, project scope creep, schedule delays, and cost increases have become the rule rather than the exception. Over the past 10 years, the electric utility industry has seen large demands on its projects and construction management organizations to ensure compliance with a number of concerns. Large capital programs/projects come with a variety of complicated planning, implementation, and workforce/vendor management challenges. Using EPU projects as an example, we will provide you with ways to overcome these challenges for any large capital program/project. This article can help you successfully plan, deliver, and control/monitor your large capital program/project.
Energy efficient practices have become pervasive in the data center market as providers and customers alike strive to reduce their carbon footprint and meet corporate sustainability goals. Equinix is at the forefront of innovating and driving technologies that increase the efficiency of building, operating and running our data centers, while at the same time maintaining the high standard of excellence our customers require.
For more information, visit http://www.equinix.com.au/why-equinix/green-by-design/
Offshore Wind Energy: Improving Project Development and Supply Chain Processe...Stavros Thomas
This project scopes to investigate, analyze and implement lean technologies and methods to improve project
development efficiency and provide cost reductions in offshore wind energy investments. Logically all products
and services in the wind power industry involve a supply chain structure. Some of these upstream entities
and activities located inside this multi-directional framework are completely independent-autonomous of one
another while some are interrelated. This process through manufacturing, distribution, installation and operation
creates waste in terms of process time, cost and quality of service. Lean principles-when implemented-work
together to identify, mitigate or even eliminate the waste produced during the life-cycle of a wind power project
and simplify the processes with the highest value and quality. Through a complete lifecycle analysis and under
the plethora of the integrated supply chain processes, this project focuses on developing innovative solutions
and procedures to optimise offshore wind plants installation, operation and maintenance (O&M) as well as
decommissioning-repowering. Finally a set of tools and methodologies to remove supply chain bottlenecks,
address the associated transport, logistics and equipment challenges and improve project management are also
presented. It has been shown that the wastes such as inventory costs and defects have been reduced which
improves the overall project feasibility.
Keywords
offshore wind — supply chain — lean management — portfolio management — project development
Advanced Energy Design and Retrofit Guides Summary from the 2013 DOE BTO Peer...Shanti Pless
Our peer review slides from the 2013 DOE BTO Peer Review: http://energy.gov/eere/buildings/downloads/2013-building-technologies-office-program-peer-review-report.
ENERGY IN BUILDINGs 50 BEST PRACTICE INITIATIVESJosh Develop
Technology, economics and policy are rapidly transforming energy markets
and the broader economy. Global efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases are leading to increased focus on policies that can reduce energy use
or promote low emissions generation.
Australia’s economy-wide target under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change is to reduce emissions by 26-28 per cent
on 2005 levels by 2030. By the second half of the century, achieving net zero
emissions is likely to be necessary to meet international climate commitments.
The cost of producing electricity from renewable resources has declined
significantly over recent years and remains on a rapid downward trajectory.
Energy Management and the Evolution of Intelligent Motor Control and Drives @...ARC Advisory Group
Energy Management and the Evolution of Intelligent Motor Control and Drives @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Craig Resnick.
Intelligent motor control & drives once provided a safe, flexible & centralized means to control & protect motors
•Today, these devices have evolved to ‘smart’ energy managers that bring advances ranging from complex drive systems to basic control of fan or pump motors
•In high demand where uptime & equipment reliability are critical, in applications where even a short period of downtime can prove extremely costly & damaging
•These devices perform critical protective & troubleshooting functions & detailed diagnostics to help improve productivity & minimize downtime
[Oil & Gas White Paper] Optimizing Pipeline Energy ConsumptionSchneider Electric
Effective energy management can benefit the hydrocarbon pipeline operator. Energy consumption costs – the leading expense for most operators – are rising continuously; however, the commitments needed on the part of the operator often impede implementation of energy-saving practices.
Key to effective energy management is the ability to quantify energy consumption accurately at any specific time and its cost and that of drag reducing agent (DR) use. Operators committed to energy management can implement a real-time, system-wide power optimization solution that evaluates the resource efficiency of a steady-state model of the pipeline. This solution will also perform costing runs of alternative configurations, formulated for the next energy cost rate or other ‘what if’ scenarios, in order to find the most energy-efficient alternative that maintains operational safety and integrity. Implementing these alternatives, the operator can save one percent to five percent of energy costs and reduce carbon emissions.
This advanced information management technology makes these costing considerations so practical they can become a routine, real-time operations process. Putting available information to work with this solution can make power optimization extremely realistic and highly rewarding for the company while supporting overall operational security, safety and environmental stewardship.
Gone are the days when accounting teams were the only ones hunting down utility bills in order to pay them.
Now, more than ever before, a growing list of departments within a single organization are asking for energy data for sustainability and CSR reporting, energy consumption benchmarking and forecasting, customer and investor transparency, among many other reasons.
This webinar includes slides featuring NetApp, Powerhouse Dynamics, Cox Enterprises, Verdantix, and Urjanet will discuss how the industry has seen the need for energy data span across multiple departments within the enterprise, and how these end users are applying the data to achieve their departmental and organizational goals.