Need for energy efficiency services

• Energy costs are rising, CO2 emissions are rocketing; however...

• There are no clear incentives for individuals to conserve energy

• No good methods for determining if energy saving procedures and policies are followed

• No means to determine if malfunctioning equipment is resulting in increased energy consumption. Power consumptions due to forgetfulness, mistakes, distractions, failure and/or breakage of equipment or overload brought about temporary simultaneous consumption can represent up to 20% of the electric bill

• Energy retrofit projects are traditionally very disruptive to building occupants, and...

• They typically either never achieve projected pay-backs or fail to sustain initial savings due to ineffective monitoring/validation of energy savings • Information coming from power grid/switch boards is limited and difficult to understand

• There is huge unawareness: only the “stand-by” power consumption in Europe is equivalent to all power consumed in Central America and Caribbean countries or GDP of countries like Paraguay or Nepal

• Green Book about the Energy Efficiency of the European Commission (June 2005) encourages the end-users to adopt measures to save by 2020 20% of the energy we are consuming today... The question is HOW?

Challenges for utilities

• Customer requirements
        To meet increasing demand
        To deliver high quality power over stable grid
        To increase reliability

• Technology opportunities
        To reduce preventive and corrective maintenance
        To improve safety standards
        To increase grid monitoring
        To install modern data integration and analytics to support advanced grid operation and control
        To integrate communication technologies to use in an intelligent power grid system including WiMax/WiFi, BPL, optical fiber.

Challenges for Enterprises and end-users

• Climate changes : Kyoto Protocol

• Emissions trading market : companies that need to increase their emissions must buy credits from those who pollute less

• Industries / Enterprises / Government and Official Organisms
        Energy and economic savings
        Load control and network management
        Reducing maintenance costs

• Residential users
        Energy and economic savings
        Contribution to the Green Environment

Solution: Installing Power Consumption Managers

• First and only power consumption manager with intelligent modelling capability
• It analyzes, monitors and models the power consumption
• Measurement in real time, historic data base and graphs:
        Current and voltage per phase : phase-balancing control
        Power (active, reactive, total) and power factor
        Consumption cumulative and instantaneous
        Energy consumed (€, $, rand, etc.) Per circuit or per charge
• Load automation : automatic connection and disconnection
• Modelling and control of the power consumption variations or deviations • Prevention of electric accidents
• Alarms by excess consumption
• Control of CO2 emission
• Remote control via Internet (TCP/IP)

Advantages of the technology
• Easiness of use in industrial and residential environments
• Power savings up to 20 and 30%
• Minimum investment in equipment
• Easiness of installation
• Amortization of investment in less than 1 year