Is your energy management program actually affecting your bottom line?

Everyone knows you can't manage what you don't measure. So how do you go about measuring a buildings performance and energy usage? Do you have a high power Energy Management System (EMS) or Building Automation System (BAS)? If so, have you recouped your return on investment? What are you doing with the information provided to consistently increase energy efficiency?

So many facilities we have visited here at Veteran LED have been flooded with a fire hose of performance information and data via the tools mentioned above. The information is provided, decoded, and plans are put in place to make changes. Right? Not so much. The problem is that companies incur all of the costs associated with this entire process: Maintenance, data analytics, program management, engineering, and project planning, to name a few. Quite often the costs associated with the process are equal to or greater than the money actually being saved by the implementation of energy conservation measures. Capital expenses are being drained and poured into systems that provide the wrong information or too much information, and then nothing is being done with it. Bottom line is it just sits idle in the "cloud", provides fancy graphs, and never affects.... THE BOTTOM LINE.

Think about when the average person wants to go on a diet. Do they buy the scale that delivers in ten thousandths of a pound to weigh themselves? Do they diagnose each product of food they consume down to the molecular level? Do they repeat this every 5 minutes and then do nothing about it?! Not if they want to actually lose weight! Same goes for energy management.

At Veteran LED, for most of our customers, it is not cost effective for them to have a team of engineers staffed to manage their energy usage, utility bills, and maintenance costs all at once. This is where our VLED team comes in. We provide measurement and verification of your energy usage, streamline the utility billing process, and deliver this information into a comprehensive format for you, the company, to objectively review. Upon reviewing this information with you, we will sit down and go over our Energy Management Plan complete with turn-key solutions and accurately calculated ROI's on each proposed energy conservation measure in that plan. This plan of course comes tailored to your specific property with options such as a pilot approach, phased approach, or even performance based with 100% financing.

The point is companies need to have plans in place that increase their BOTTOM LINE by reducing operating expenses and use the data that is being provided. It is important to know where you stand against your competitors, BUT it is even more important to understand the steps needed to surpass them, and reducing your utility and maintenance costs is a huge step in the right direction.

For more information on how to manage your energy usage call Chris Rawlings @ 757-355-1622