|
|
|
 |
The are many key benefits that can be gained by installing automatic remote monitoring
devices for Energy Management, such as:
· the ability to know your energy consumption in £'s and pence on a half-hour
basis. Users know where costs lie and can assess which activity (to reduce costs)
could provide the quickest return on investment.
· users know consumption and cost, in advance of receiving the bill from your utilities
supplier on a monthly basis which, in some instances, may be a month behind.
· the ability to identify peaks in consumption immediately and hence rectify, thus
reducing costs the peak could have caused over a longer period of time.
· adding the facility for sub-metering helps a company identify energy use areas/equipment
per site and hence the ability to identify key energy consumers and their associated
running costs. Mains metering only provides information for billing purposes.
Simply monitoring and metering mains utilities alone will not help and
relying solely on smart metering of mains utilities is not the answer to reducing
carbon emissions. However, monitoring, managing, targeting critical areas and hence
controlling and undertaking activities and initiatives to reduce energy usage can.
Businesses need to identify excessive consumption or areas for improvement to minimise
waste - it is this form of energy management that can help reduce carbon emissions;
the t-mac device for example does just this. In addition, as t-mac Technologies’
software is accessible online, all future advancements in the software functionality
will ensure the t-mac device incorporates additional and new requirements of the
expanding/changing government legislation on energy management and carbon emissions
t-mac provides more than smart metering, it provides the remote aM&T application
opportunities as well as Control to help a company actively identify, reduce and
prove a reduction in energy use and cost.
t-mac = aM&T + C
This equipment usually has a three to six month return on investment depending on
the building. In particular retail outlets, where lighting is usually left on out-of-hours,
the cost benefits of knowing lighting is on and then remotely controlling to switch
each sites lighting off immediately, covers the cost of t-mac equipment and installation.
It can be said that, once energy consumption is monitored, targeted and controlled,
the site should be running at peak efficiency and hence energy costs for business
are reduced and at a plateau and that continuous monitoring and management cannot
provide any further savings. However, this is simply not the case. Remote energy
management equipment, which goes further than smart metering devices, business can
utilise energy management equipment for internal KPIs, external CSR activities,
providing information for a building’s Energy Performance ratings etc – possibilities
are endless.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|