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Aug 27, 2012 by Windham Chamber

CL&P Offers Tips On How Operation and Maintenance Changes Can Result in Real Savings

 

Inadequate maintenance can often lead to drastic energy losses – defeating your plan to reduce energy use and cost. Effective operation and maintenance is a cost-effective tool for commercial and industrial customers who want reliability and energy efficiency built into their electric and natural gas equipment and systems. By participating in this program, customers can improve the electrical and thermal efficiency of their operations by changes and repairs, rather than through capital investments. This is a program with lasting benefits that improve your facility’s overall performance while helping to develop long-term, sustainable energy management strategies. Now, with Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund support, you have the financial and technical assistance that enables you to determine your energy future by making decisions based on advanced operation and maintenance practices and technology.

 

 

Who’s Eligible?

Commercial, industrial or municipal customers of any size.

Customers who need to identify energy inefficiencies and opportunities to their HVAC and industrial production systems. Program is not intended for normal preventive maintenance and repetitive procedures or to subsidize major equipment purchases.

CL&P customers on a commercial or industrial rate can participate in electric energy-efficiency measures.

CNG, SCG or Yankee Gas customers on a firm commercial or industrial rate can participate in natural gas energy-saving measures.

How Does the Program Work?

CL&P energy experts will work with your design professional, contractor or your facilities group to identify opportunities for O&M improvements at your facility. Based on the findings, we can review your proposal and help you quantify the savings achievable from those changes.

The program uses a financial incentive strategy. Energy-efficiency measures may be eligible for incentives to offset a portion of the installed project cost. When applicable, training and outreach may also be provided to your in-house personnel to help maintain the energy-efficiency improvements over time. Details of the current incentive structure can be found here. (PDF)

Operations & Maintenance Services program administrators will provide the general and technical support necessary, as determined by the size and complexity of the project, to prepare an up-front, contractual commitment to be signed prior to implementing your O&M measures. This Letter of Agreement will detail all the energy-efficiency measures, the estimated energy savings, and the anticipated incentive dollar amount. Once the project is completed, the measures are inspected and verified and your organization receives the financial incentive payment. It’s as simple as that.

 

The financial incentives will help get your project completed the right way. The energy-saving benefits will continue on, month after month.

The following list is only a sample of the energy-efficiency opportunities available. Each facility is unique. However, some of the more common O&M measures are:

 

Improvements to compressed air systems, such as repairing leaks or installing solenoid valves that automatically shut off air supply to machines when they are not running.

Repairs or conversions of economizers to comparative enthalpy control.

Rewiring of lighting circuits for more efficient control.

Maintenance of the facility’s energy management system including reprogramming and replacing defective sensors, relays and actuators.

Replacement of small air motors and compressed air-driven bin vibrators with electric motors.

Repairs or replacement of defective steam traps.

For more information call 1-877-WISE-USE (1-877-947-3873).

 

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