That energy is essential is a given—without it no company would be in business. Thus all businesses must manage energy to an extent, if only to ensure its availability. Beyond that basic need, decisions relative to energy options and opportunities will depend on how significant the cost and environmental effects of energy are to business operations, broader business strategy and positioning considerations.

As an Energy Solutions Provider, Empower Energy offers a proven strategy for superior energy management with our Empower Edge Program. We help you each step of the way. Our guidelines for energy management can assist your organization in improving its energy and financial performance while distinguishing your organization as an environmental leader.

As the saying goes, “time is money” and that is particularly true for any business. However, not taking time to save energy can mean big money – lost. Reduction in daily energy costs and monthly utility bills for the lifetime of your business can make it well worth the time needed to pursue effective and efficient energy upgrades.

Commitment

Organizations seeing the financial returns from superior energy management continuously strive to improve their energy performance. Their success is based on regularly assessing energy performance and implementing steps to increase energy efficiency.

No matter the size or type of organization, the common element of successful energy management is commitment. Organizations first make a commitment to get started and then make a commitment to allocate staff and funding to achieve continuous improvement.

Evaluate

Navigating in any situation requires you to know where you are. Understanding current and past energy use is how many organizations identify opportunities to improve energy performance and gain financial benefits. We begin with a review of your power bill to determine usage patterns, rate plans and where we can quickly extract savings.

Assessing performance is the periodic process of evaluating energy use for all major facilities and functions in the organization and establishing a baseline for measuring future results of efficiency efforts. This is an essential step and sets the stage for all of our conservation, management and production solutions.

Key Aspects:

• Data Collection and Management
• Baselining and Benchmarking
• Analysis and Evaluation

Assessing your energy performance helps you to:

• Categorize current energy use.
• Prioritize poor performing areas of your operation.
• Understand the contribution of energy expenditures to operating costs.
• Develop a historical perspective and context for future actions and decisions.
• Establish reference points for measuring and rewarding good performance.

Advise

Successful organizations use a detailed action plan to ensure a systematic process to implement energy performance measures. We develop and provide a plan that allows you to strategically use energy within the parameters of your utility’s rate plans. While the scope and scale of the action plan is often dependent on the organization, the steps below outline a basic starting point for creating a plan.

• Evaluate technical assessments and audit results. Identify gaps between current performance and goals, by reviewing the results of the technical assessments and audits or progress evaluations.
• Determine technical steps. Identify the steps necessary for upgrading and moving facilities from current performance to the desired level of performance as defined by the goals.
• Create performance targets to track progress towards achieving goals.
• Set timelines for actions, including regular meetings among key personnel to evaluate progress, completion dates, milestones and expected outcomes.
• Establish a tracking system to track and monitor the progress of action items.

Design

Our engineering staff develops solutions tailored to your business – combining engineering, operational and aesthetic excellence. Empower takes great pride in providing our clients with a specialized and comprehensive, engineered design for the specific needs of their business and project. We look at your immediate needs as well as your needs in the future based on growth and expansion plans.

Our commitment at Empower during the design and engineering phase is assuring the highest level of performance and reliability once the project is completed. We get it right from the beginning.

Build

Project Management is part of our Empower Edge offering. Experienced, licensed electricians and contractors install your solutions with the highest attention to detail and uncompromising safety.  And we do it with minimal interruption to your daily business routines. Large or small, our expertise and experience in project management pays dividends to you … time saved, money saved, hassles eliminated, downtimes avoided, and no worries for you during the project so you can stayed focused on your business and making money.

Optimize

We test and optimize so you get all the benefits and efficiencies available to you while maintaining all of your business needs.  Our goal is to maximize efficiency to reduce energy use, cost and environmental impact.

Monitor

We monitor your energy systems to ensure that you enjoy long term savings, allowing you to focus on your business operation and success. With the right energy monitoring systems, your organization can protect data and applications while optimizing the power delivery infrastructure for efficiency and lower cost. New supervisory, connectivity and protection capabilities provide an envelope of protection for your entire energy infrastructure.

Contact us today and learn how the Empower Edge can help your company conserve and manage energy and be prepared for any power emergency.

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