Industrial Energy Reduction Programs

Utilities

Many of the leading utilities rely on EPS Corp to ensure their industrial energy reduction programs, including energy efficiency, demand response, and renewable energy programs are widely implemented among their customer base. Utilities turn to EPS to provide energy efficiency expertise and complete services to their customers from concept to commissioning. EPS also has a proven track record of delivering state of the art demand response and permanent load shift solutions for many of the utilities’ most challenging heavy industrial customers. Our xChange Point^® energy management solution enables customers and the utilities to reliably measure and verify energy usage on an ongoing basis, ensuring the usage is at the levels required by the incentive programs.

Some EPS customers include:

Success Stories:

PG&E and SCE Automated Demand Response (Auto DR) Projects

EPS Corp installed Auto-DR controls resulting in more than 18 MW of demand reduction across the state of California. Auto-DR controls were installed to automatically shut down equipment based on a signal from the utility. As a result, the utilities are able to reduce their peak load demands, while their participating customers are able to reduce their energy costs through lower utility rates. Clients included Schnitzer Steel, Praxair, Fleetwood, Sully Miller, Grower’s Ice and Aaron Industries.

The net result: 18 MW of combined demand reduction.

PG&E Non-Residential New Construction (NRNC) Projects

PG&E selected EPS Corp to perform third party analysis of Architectural and Engineering (A&E) designs for new construction to determine if they were eligible for rebate funding under the Non-Residential New Construction (statewide Savings By Design) program. EPS successfully completed the analysis on multiple facilities utilizing cold storage and conditioned air spaces and has many on-going projects as well. We have analyzed over 50 NRNC projects since 2005 with clients that include: Ghirardelli Chocolate, Morningstar Foods, Oxy, Don Sebastiani Winery, George Chiala Farms, Saintsbury Winery, Aranda’s Tortilla, Cintas Laundry and Trinchero Winery.

The net result: 8.5 million kWh of combined sustainable annual savings and over $1 million of annual cost savings at current average bundled electric rates.

Boiler System Upgrades and Heat Recovery in Thermal Systems

EPS Corp has worked with Southern California Gas Company to help their customers reduce their thermal energy consumption by auditing, analyzing, recommending and implementing a wide range of energy efficiency measures. These include O₂ trim, optimal boiler sequencing, installing waste heat recovery economizers, and creating efficient hydronic systems. In addition, we helped many of these customers to take advantage of available rebates. These customers include City of Rialto, Swift Meats, Fresh Start Bakery, Guardian Glass, Chevron, and Oakley

The net result: Significant ongoing energy savings for the participating Southern California Gas Company customers.

For more success stories on how EPS can work with the utilities to allow our customers to take advantage of industrial energy reduction programs, contact us.