Benefits
For reasons principally related to:
1) SA's historically very low electricity prices
2) continual improvements in best-practice processes and
technologies
There are often numerous possibilities for companies in all economic sectors to improve their efficiency of energy use - with associated cost savings that can be dramatic. These possibilities include (but are not limited to):
| Intervention (example) |
Investment type (typical) |
Savings anticipated (typical) |
| Tariff / Supply agreement analysis | Low | 5 - 15% |
| Managed behaviour change | Low | 5 - 20% |
| Process adjustments | Low | 5 - 20% |
| Power factor correction | Medium | 0 - 70% |
| Lighting | Medium | 30 - 70% |
| Power quality assessment / correction | Medium | highly variable |
| Equipment upgrades | High | 10 - 60% |
| Technology upgrades | High | 10 - 70% |
In addition, the public and staff relations of improving your company's environmental impact ['carbon footprint'] can be of high strategic value. We can assist you to report on this accurately.
