ENERGY SAVERS opens the world to UTILITY SAVINGS
ENVIROMENTAL REGULATIONS, INCREASED WORLWIDE DEMAN DAND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE HAVING A DRAMATIC IMPACT ON THE PRICE OF ENERGY.
HOW WILL THIS AFFECT YOUR UTILITY COSTS?
We can help.
Energy Savers is the world’s leading utility cost management consulting firm. We specialize in providing audit, (Production tax refund), rate optimization, procurement, conservation, energy efficiency implementation, retrofit, demand management, renewable energy, on-line utility data management services and market pricing research to reduce and better manage electricity, gas, water/wastewater, petroleum and telecommunications expenses.
Today, over 20,000 utility intensive organizations located in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia rely on Energy Savers Consulting to recover overcharges, develop and implement cost reduction, energy efficiency and procurement strategies, monitor supplier compliance and provide on-line utility data management support systems.
Our professional staff, experience, market intelligence, international coverage, and local presence provide our clients a critical competitive cost advantage. Every member of Energy Savers Consulting is dedicated to providing the firm’s clients unparalleled cost reduction solutions, service and support. Our goal is to improve the utility purchasing processes of our clients and increase their profitability and bottom line.
Services: Recovery Audit
WE OFFER A SERVICE TO AUDIT BILLS TO ENSURE YOU ARE NOT BEING OVERCHARGED FOR YOUR UTILITY SERVICES
Each year utility suppliers submit countless invoices, worth hundreds of millions, to their customers containing errors. Most consumers are surprised to learn that the burden of identifying and correcting these mistakes is their responsibility.
Who verifies your utility invoices to ensure they are correct? If your organization is not currently validating utility invoices, does it possess the resources and expertise to take on this added responsibility?
We understand that in most organizations utility bills are processed by accounts payable departments without any real review. For accounts payable departments, the primary concern is paying the bill on time to avoid late charges and service interruptions. It is for this reason we offer a service to audit client’s utility bills to ensure that they are not being overcharged for their utility services. Our comprehensive audit services check for erroneous meter readings, incorrect applications of rates and pricing arrangements, usage anomalies, duplicate billings, and other administrative errors. Our audit services can be accomplished on a pre-payment or post-payment basis.
Services: Rate Optimization
Does your organization have the resources and expertise to analyze the available rate alternatives and optimize expenses?
Utility suppliers offer a multitude of rate schedules that may be applied to a particular consumer’s account. These rate schedules are constantly changing – i.e., new rates are added and existing ones are modified or eliminated.
The application of each specific rate schedule to a particular consumer’s usage profile results in a different cost. Most consumers are surprised to learn that utility suppliers are not required to apply the most cost effective alternative to their account. The responsibility to analyze, identify and request the most cost effective rate falls on the consumer.
Who chose the current rate schedule for your service? Have your usage profile or operating characteristics changed since your last rate review? Does your organization have the resources and expertise to analyze all of the available rate alternatives and optimize your expenses?
Rate analysis and optimization requires access to a utility supplier’s rates, a detailed understanding of rate design as well as one’s overall usage profile, and systems to compare multiple scenarios. Based upon our experience, very few businesses want to maintain the internal expertise or resources to perform this task.
It is for this reason that we offer a rate analysis and optimization service to our clients. The objective of this service is to identify and implement the most cost effective rate alternative available, thereby reducing the client’s annual energy and/or telecommunications expenditures. This is not a one-time service. Once we have optimized a client’s current purchasing arrangements, we monitor changes in the available rate schedules and the client’s usage profile to ensure that the client continues to purchase their utility services under the most cost effective rate option.
Services: Procurement
AROUND THE WORLD, ENERGY SAVERS MANAGES THE PROCUREMENT PROCESSES FOR THOUSANDS OF LARGE AND SMALL BUSINESSES.
The process of buying energy and telecommunications services in a liberalized or deregulated market is both time consuming and complex. Although suppliers and brokers are more than pleased to offer their "standard" prices upon request (or via an on-line buying service), sophisticated consumers understand that thorough preparation, first-rate market intelligence, timing and negotiation are critical to securing the best prices.
We understand that there are many organizations that do not wish to devote the time and resources necessary to develop and manage the procurement process but still want to secure the best prices available in the marketplace. For this reason we offer a service to outsource a client’s energy and/or telecommunications procurement process.
Around the world ENERGY SAVERS Consulting manages the procurement process for thousands of clients. Our experience, reputation, market intelligence, and industry relationships provide our clients a real advantage.
By outsourcing the procurement process, we take on the burden of constructing detailed usage profiles of each of your locations; drafting a comprehensive pricing request; submitting the pricing request to selected reputable suppliers; performing a comparative analysis of responses and ranking them on a "like-for-like" basis; and undertaking any required negotiations with the most competitive suppliers. At the conclusion of this process, our clients receive a detailed procurement process report with our recommendations and a supply contract for final approval/signature.
Services: Conservation
THE RECENT AND ON-GOING INCREASES IN ENERGY PRICES MAKE CONSERVATION PROJECTS MORE ATTRACTIVE.
In today’s dynamic energy markets, erratic and volatile pricing are a fact of life which significantly impact you’re operating costs and profitability. Today’s fuel prices are at record levels not envisioned by architects and engineers that designed buildings 10 or more years ago.
Unfortunately, we believe that fuel prices, at least in the foreseeable future, will continue to increase therefore making it imperative that businesses find additional methods to reduce their energy expenses.
As a direct result of these circumstances, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting has developed an energy audit program to complement its core services - i.e., cost control, audit, rate optimization, procurement, on-line data management and market research.
As part of our energy audit program, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting will undertake the following tasks:
Obtain basic building information - determine audit goals, review planned and historical building modifications; prepare facility equipment list, etc.
Review facility electrical distribution system - identify primary and secondary distribution voltages, check transformer ratings and maintenance procedures, review distribution panel and branch circuits, check log books for equipment outages or load additions or reductions, etc.
Review facility HVAC systems -- identify type of heating and cooling systems, examine current maintenance procedures, examine cooling towers, circulating pumps and fans, investigate the use of VAV boxes, identify location of vent and fresh air makeup for excessive or reduced level of activity, etc.
Review implemented energy cost reduction programs -- review any past energy cost reduction programs to insure proper operation and to avoid duplication of effort.
In addition to the above, our energy audit will generally include the review and verification of a facility’s conditioned space, total square area, exterior wall area, energy usage data and trends, tenant information (if applicable), energy management systems, lighting, plug load, and heating and cooling degree days, etc.
Upon completion of our energy audit, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting will provide you with a detailed report of its findings and recommendations. We will prioritize low cost/no cost projects and then move on to other higher cost projects. During the process ENERGY SAVERS Consulting will also investigate available rebates or options that can reduce or eliminate the cost of an energy cost reduction project.
Services: On-Line Data Management
OUR WEB PORTAL PROVIDES YOU WITH YOUR UTILITY DATA AS WELL AS ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR BENCHMARKING BUDGETING AND PROJECTIONS.
For large multi-site organizations the compilation, maintenance and analysis of utility data is an essential management process. However, constructing maintaining and making this type of utility database available within such an organization is an expensive and resource intensive project. The reality is, the larger the organization (i.e., number of individual sites) the greater the expense and resources.
However, it is these very organizations that have the greatest amount to gain from the institution of a comprehensive utility data management system. Such a system allows these organizations to institute greater controls over their various sites and site managers. Moreover, such a system provides vital analytical tools – e.g., benchmarking, budget monitoring and projection, anomaly identification, consolidation, etc.
At the request of (and in conjunction with) a number of large multi-location clients, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting has developed a comprehensive on-line utility data management system – ENERGY SAVERS direct©. We now offer this ENERGY SAVERS direct© service to all of our clients around the world.
Some of the distinguishing features of ENERGY SAVERS direct© are:
- multi-language capability;
- multi-country capability – i.e., the system can manage sites located around the world;
- multi-currency capability – i.e., the system reports in both local and functional currency;
- comprehensive suite of analytical tools – i.e., budgeting, benchmarking, monitoring, etc.;
- maintenance of utility bill images; and
- 24/7 secure multi-tiered password access.
As part of our service, we initialize the ENERGY SAVERS direct© system for your particular organization – i.e., set up your site, baseline/functional currency, normalize utility unit measures and input a baseline of historic utility data. Once the initialization of the system is complete, we maintain it and input your current utility billing data.
Services: Market Pricing Survey
HAVING THE RIGHT INFORMATION CAN MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE.
In today’s ultra-competitive world, having the right information can mean the difference between success and failure. As an independent consulting company that is not subject to the influence of any utility supplier, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting is uniquely positioned to provide businesses, industry associations, government agencies and suppliers with accurate and unbiased market research and pricing studies.
Our experience, pricing database, market intelligence and reputation provide us with an insider's perspective into the markets and their movements. ENERGY SAVERS Consulting can provide in-depth international, regional or local market analysis and commentary, comparative pricing studies and much more.
An example of how ENERGY SAVERS Consulting’s research, pricing information and market intelligence can help your organization succeed can be seen in the construction of a new plant or facility. Typically, prior to final approval for such a project, most organizations undertake a detailed regulatory and tax impact study. Prudent businesses, however, also undertake a Utility Impact Study because a beneficial tax break can be eliminated by locating in a high utility cost area.
Services: Cost Control Program
The Energy Savers consulting cost control program is designed to identify and pursue potential refund and cost savings opportunities – reducing your utility costs and improving your profits (bottom-line)
In many organizations the management of utility costs is not a top priority. Utility invoices are typically processed by accounts payable departments without any meaningful review or verification. Most management attention is devoted to the cost of labor and materials. Considering that energy and telecommunications costs can make up as much as 25 percent of an organization's overall operating budget – utility cost reductions, even the most modest ones, can significantly improve profitability.
To relieve businesses of the burden (i.e., time, expense and distraction) of developing and maintaining the resources and expertise to internally verify validate and analyze utility expenditures, we developed the ENERGY SAVERS Cost Control Program. This program is designed to identify and pursue potential refund and cost savings opportunities – reducing your utility costs and improving your profits.
The ENERGY SAVERS Cost Control Program is both easy to implement and scalable. It can function as a total outsource solution or as a complement to existing utility cost management programs.
As part of this service, you will be assigned a specific account manager who will act as your primary contact within ENERGY SAVERS Consulting and will coordinate the following activities:
Data Collection: compile your past and current utility invoices and construct a comprehensive database of key utility data – i.e., usage, demand, price, taxes, etc.
Recovery Audit: review your utility invoices for administrative, computational and other potential errors and overcharges.
Rate Optimization: analyze your annual utility usage and demand profiles against available rate options to identify more cost effective alternatives.
Procurement: in competitive markets, prepare documentation necessary to solicit offers from suppliers, evaluate responses and negotiate contractual terms and conditions.
Reporting, Implementation & Monitoring: prepare and submit management reports with our findings and recommendations, implement refund and savings strategies, and monitoring of future invoices for new cost saving opportunities and compliance.
Services: Recovery Audit
we offer a service to audit bills to ensure you are not being overcharged for your utility services.
Each year utility suppliers submit countless invoices, worth hundreds of millions, to their customers containing errors. Most consumers are surprised to learn that the burden of identifying and correcting these mistakes is their responsibility.
Who verifies your utility invoices to ensure they are correct? If your organization is not currently validating utility invoices, does it possess the resources and expertise to take on this added responsibility?
We understand that in most organizations utility bills are processed by accounts payable departments without any real review. For accounts payable departments, the primary concern is paying the bill on time to avoid late charges and service interruptions. It is for this reason we offer a service to audit client’s utility bills to ensure that they are not being overcharged for their utility services. Our comprehensive audit services check for erroneous meter readings, incorrect applications of rates and pricing arrangements, usage anomalies, duplicate billings, and other administrative errors. Our audit services can be accomplished on a pre-payment or post-payment basis.
Services: Rate Optimization
does your organization have the resources and expertise to analyze the available rate alternative and optimize your expenses?
Utility suppliers offer a multitude of rate schedules that may be applied to a particular consumer’s account. These rate schedules are constantly changing – i.e., new rates are added and existing ones are modified or eliminated.
The application of each specific rate schedule to a particular consumer’s usage profile results in a different cost. Most consumers are surprised to learn that utility suppliers are not required to apply the most cost effective alternative to their account. The responsibility to analyze, identify and request the most cost effective rate falls on the consumer.
Who chose the current rate schedule for your service? Have your usage profile or operating characteristics changed since your last rate review? Does your organization have the resources and expertise to analyze all of the available rate alternatives and optimize your expenses?
Rate analysis and optimization requires access to a utility supplier’s rates, a detailed understanding of rate design as well as one’s overall usage profile, and systems to compare multiple scenarios. Based upon our experience, very few businesses want to maintain the internal expertise or resources to perform this task.
It is for this reason that we offer a rate analysis and optimization service to our clients. The objective of this service is to identify and implement the most cost effective rate alternative available, thereby reducing the client’s annual energy and/or telecommunications expenditures. This is not a one-time service. Once we have optimized a client’s current purchasing arrangements, we monitor changes in the available rate schedules and the client’s usage profile to ensure that the client continues to purchase their utility services under the most cost effective rate option.
Services: Procurement
Around the world energy savers consulting manages the procurement processes for thousands of large and small businesses.
The process of buying energy and telecommunications services in a liberalized or deregulated market is both time consuming and complex. Although suppliers and brokers are more than pleased to offer their "standard" prices upon request (or via an on-line buying service), sophisticated consumers understand that thorough preparation, first-rate market intelligence, timing and negotiation are critical to securing the best prices.
We understand that there are many organizations that do not wish to devote the time and resources necessary to develop and manage the procurement process but still want to secure the best prices available in the marketplace. For this reason we offer a service to outsource a client’s energy and/or telecommunications procurement process.
Around the world ENERGY SAVERS Consulting manages the procurement process for thousands of clients. Our experience, reputation, market intelligence, and industry relationships provide our clients a real advantage.
By outsourcing the procurement process, we take on the burden of constructing detailed usage profiles of each of your locations; drafting a comprehensive pricing request; submitting the pricing request to selected reputable suppliers; performing a comparative analysis of responses and ranking them on a "like-for-like" basis; and undertaking any required negotiations with the most competitive suppliers. At the conclusion of this process, our clients receive a detailed procurement process report with our recommendations and a supply contract for final approval/signature.
Services: Conservation
The recent and on-going increasees in energy prices make conservation projects more attractive.
In today’s dynamic energy markets, erratic and volatile pricing are a fact of life which significantly impact you’re operating costs and profitability. Today’s fuel prices are at record levels not envisioned by architects and engineers that designed buildings 10 or more years ago.
Unfortunately, we believe that fuel prices, at least in the foreseeable future, will continue to increase therefore making it imperative that businesses find additional methods to reduce their energy expenses.
As a direct result of these circumstances, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting has developed an energy audit program to complement its core services - i.e., cost control, audit, rate optimization, procurement, on-line data management and market research.
As part of our energy audit program, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting will undertake the following tasks:
Obtain basic building information - determine audit goals, review planned and historical building modifications; prepare facility equipment list, etc.
Review facility electrical distribution system - identify primary and secondary distribution voltages, check transformer ratings and maintenance procedures, review distribution panel and branch circuits, check log books for equipment outages or load additions or reductions, etc.
Review facility HVAC systems -- identify type of heating and cooling systems, examine current maintenance procedures, examine cooling towers, circulating pumps and fans, investigate the use of VAV boxes, identify location of vent and fresh air makeup for excessive or reduced level of activity, etc.
Review implemented energy cost reduction programs -- review any past energy cost reduction programs to insure proper operation and to avoid duplication of effort.
In addition to the above, our energy audit will generally include the review and verification of a facility’s conditioned space, total square area, exterior wall area, energy usage data and trends, tenant information (if applicable), energy management systems, lighting, plug load, and heating and cooling degree days, etc.
Upon completion of our energy audit, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting will provide you with a detailed report of its findings and recommendations. We will prioritize low cost/no cost projects and then move on to other higher cost projects. During the process ENERGY SAVERS Consulting will also investigate available rebates or options that can reduce or eliminate the cost of an energy cost reduction project.
Services: On-Line Data Management
OUR WEB PORTAL PROVIDES YOU WITH YOUR UTILITY DATA AS WELL AS ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR BENCHMARKING BUDGETING AND PROJECTIONS.
For large multi-site organizations the compilation, maintenance and analysis of utility data is an essential management process. However, constructing maintaining and making this type of utility database available within such an organization is an expensive and resource intensive project. The reality is, the larger the organization (i.e., number of individual sites) the greater the expense and resources.
However, it is these very organizations that have the greatest amount to gain from the institution of a comprehensive utility data management system. Such a system allows these organizations to institute greater controls over their various sites and site managers. Moreover, such a system provides vital analytical tools – e.g., benchmarking, budget monitoring and projection, anomaly identification, consolidation, etc.
At the request of (and in conjunction with) a number of large multi-location clients, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting has developed a comprehensive on-line utility data management system – ENERGY SAVERS direct©. We now offer this ENERGY SAVERS direct© service to all of our clients around the world.
Some of the distinguishing features of ENERGY SAVERS direct© are:
- multi-language capability;
- multi-country capability – i.e., the system can manage sites located around the world;
- multi-currency capability – i.e., the system reports in both local and functional currency;
- comprehensive suite of analytical tools – i.e., budgeting, benchmarking, monitoring, etc.;
- maintenance of utility bill images; and
- 24/7 secure multi-tiered password access.
As part of our service, we initialize the ENERGY SAVERS direct© system for your particular organization – i.e., set up your site, baseline/functional currency, normalize utility unit measures and input a baseline of historic utility data. Once the initialization of the system is complete, we maintain it and input your current utility billing data.
Services: Market Pricing Survey
having the right information can make the difference between success and failure.
In today’s ultra-competitive world, having the right information can mean the difference between success and failure. As an independent consulting company that is not subject to the influence of any utility supplier, ENERGY SAVERS Consulting is uniquely positioned to provide businesses, industry associations, government agencies and suppliers with accurate and unbiased market research and pricing studies.
Our experience, pricing database, market intelligence and reputation provide us with an insider's perspective into the markets and their movements. ENERGY SAVERS Consulting can provide in-depth international, regional or local market analysis and commentary, comparative pricing studies and much more.
An example of how ENERGY SAVERS Consulting’s research, pricing information and market intelligence can help your organization succeed can be seen in the construction of a new plant or facility. Typically, prior to final approval for such a project, most organizations undertake a detailed regulatory and tax impact study. Prudent businesses, however, also undertake a Utility Impact Study because a beneficial tax break can be eliminated by locating in a high utility cost area.
Call us if you want to increase your bottom-line profit at:
Jay Draiman
Energy Consultant
Energy Savers
818-270-6319
Email: renewableenergy2@msn.com
The Benefits of Full Spectrum Lighting
ReplyDeleteAll homes, shops, and offices need to have a source of lighting. With the human race constantly working, and living, hours, which do not fit in with the hours of natural light and dark, it is crucially important to have adequate light. The vast majority of lighting systems in the workplaces and homes of today depend on either incandescent electric light bulbs, or on fluorescent tubular lighting. What many people do not realize is that these common forms of lighting can have a dramatic negative effect on people's health, and that there are much better alternatives.
Neither incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent nor LED lighting give out the full range of light that is available from the natural light of the sun. Natural sunlight is vitally important to the human body. In fact, natural sunlight is a nutrient, which is absorbed into the body, just in the same way as a nutrient taken from food would be. Sunlight has many beneficial effects on the human body. One striking effect is that on the human blood pressure. Studies of blood pressure statistics show that peoples who live very far from the equator, in the northern continents, have far higher blood pressure than those who live in the tropical regions.
Another common belief is that lack of exposure to sunlight is a major factor in increased incidence of influenza. Influenza occurs with a far higher incidence in the winter than it does in the summer, especially in countries with a temperate climate. Sunlight, in moderation, also boosts energy levels, making people who live in countries where there is a high rate of clear skies, low rainfall, and few dull days, far more likely to be physically active, and in good cardiovascular condition. The metabolism is also aided by sunlight, and it has been suggested that sunlight may even have a significant effect on a person's intelligence levels.
The immune system is the most important factor in the human body remaining healthy, and being able to resist disease. Sunlight has been demonstrated to be a major positive contributor in maintaining a healthy and effective immune system. One of the significant reasons for the basic ill health of the modern population is the amount of time that is spent in an unnatural indoor environment. The good news is that this lack of sunshine can be to a large degree overcome by the correct use of a lighting system that creates the full range of light that the sun creates. This system of lighting is called full spectrum lighting, and it is now within the budget of not only the office and the workplace, but also the home.
That the full spectrum light bulb has been universally accepted into offices and workplaces worldwide is a matter of extreme controversy. The use of standard fluorescent light bulbs is especially contentious, as this kind of light has an extremely limited range of light. Few people today realize that fluorescent lighting was designed during World War Two as a temporary expedient, and was never meant to be used in the long term. The fact that full spectrum lighting is now so readily available makes this even more damning on those in authority.
Save Money with Energy Efficient Lighting - themes
ReplyDeleteEnergy-efficient lighting is one of the most cost-effective options available to local government officials for reducing energy costs in their buildings.
Lighting is the single largest electricity user in commercial buildings. In 1990, lighting consumed 39 percent of the electricity used in U.S. commercial buildings. Local government officials looking for ways to save money should consider retrofitting their existing facilities with energy-efficient lighting. Of course, you may also realize greater savings by requiring use of energy-efficient lighting in new buildings. And don't overlook the savings you can achieve by retrofitting street lights for greater energy efficiency.
"Energy-efficient lighting is also inexpensive lighting," says Jay Draiman, Senior Energy Analyst with the Department of Energy Efficiency at Energy Savers in Northridge, CA. "Our studies show that the most efficient lighting option is also the least expensive option on a life-cycle cost basis. Our experience in Los Angeles County shows that making buildings energy efficient requires more thinking, not more money."
Lighting contributes to electricity consumption both directly, by using electricity to power lights, and indirectly, by increasing cooling use. Considering both direct and indirect costs, lighting accounts for more than half of the electricity used in a typical large office building (schools, showrooms, factories, commercial and industrial buildings.
An energy-efficient lighting retrofit thus reduces both lighting and cooling costs. On hot summer afternoons, many utilities experience periods of increased demand for power to cool buildings, and the utilities charge customers a premium during these peak periods. A low-cost lighting retrofit is one strategy for reducing the amount of expensive peak electricity a building consumes.
Energy efficient lighting retrofit also reduces maintenance cost and employee labor time for replacement of bulbs.
Jay Draiman
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION
ReplyDeleteBy YJ Draiman
Our concern for future generations (R3) (Renewable natural resources)
Rainwater harvesting and the utilization of grey-water is a must these days.
As the world population is increasing and modernizing. The utilization of our natural resources such as water is becoming scarcer and more in demand.
In order to conserve, we must utilize rainwater, and grey-water. This will also reduce water and sewer cost.
There are many techniques today which are not expensive and can be accomplished with little effort. All you need is to be concerned about the future and take action to minimize your impact on the depletion of natural resources.
We should also make it our utmost concern to make our home and or business energy efficient, and implement water conservation methods.
Builders should be required by building code to design and build structures that are energy efficient and conserve on water and other natural resources. Reduce waste and utilize recycled materials.
All citizens of the world should implement actionable conservation methods and living responsibly by contributing to the solution of sustainability.
YJ Draiman, Energy Consultant
Northridge, CA. 91324 – 5/31
renewableenergy2@msn.com
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SAVE ON ENERGY COSTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
A growing number of people are striving to make their homes more energy-efficient, and it’s no wonder: Conserving energy saves homeowners money on gas and electric bills and contributes to a healthy environment. It can also make a home more comfortable.
GREEN BUILDING - The goal of green building is to reduce or eliminate the negative impact of buildings on the environment and the people in them.
RADIANT BARRIER - Radiant barrier is installed in buildings to minimize heat gain or loss, reducing the amount of energy needed for cooling and heating.
Recent technological improvements in building elements and construction techniques, and heating, ventilation, and cooling systems, allow most modern energy saving ideas to be seamlessly integrated into any type of house design without sacrificing comfort, health, or aesthetics.