Energy Management

Energy efficiency doesn’t stop after you conduct your energy study and implement a capital project or a kaizen blitz. Or maybe we should say it does stop unless you make sure it doesn’t. Implementing an energy-management program enables you to achieve the highest possible level of energy efficiency and cost reduction over time.

“It was important that we hire a firm with appropriate skills, reputation, and experience. Cascade fit the bill perfectly, and we look forward to a successful energy management plan that targets 25% savings in the next three years.”
~D. Michael Downs, Senior Director, Engineering Services, Sysco Corporation
 

The goal of energy management is continuous improvement—seizing new opportunities and staying on course with things you are already doing well.  It includes setting goals, ensuring accountability, and staying aware.

If you don’t implement an energy-management program, you almost certainly will not achieve the highest possible level of energy efficiency and cost reduction over time.
 


Cascade can collaborate with you on an effective energy-management program for your plant or company that will help you reduce energy costs. Our typical process includes:

  • Learning your company culture and tailoring a program that works within that culture
  • Setting ambitious, but attainable energy and cost-reduction goals
  • Mentoring plant personnel (Energy Champions) who take primary responsibility for energy use and efficiency improvement
  • Implementing a system to track companywide energy consumption
  • Providing flexible utility bill graphing and analysis tools
  • Establishing a feedback loop to each site using real-time meter monitoring
  • Establishing a system for ranking and comparing all sites based on normalized energy use
  • Using peer communications among operators to share successes
  • Setting up tracking, alarming, and feedback tools to eliminate backsliding
  • Providing training and other resources to site personnel to improve their energy and system knowledge and to help them work through complex problems as they arise