Reporting on the progress of energy management projects is hard, we know. But there are energy managers out there who are using three very dangerous tools that can potentially destroy your good work. Do you want to know what they are and why they are so dangerous? Keep reading!
Energy Efficiency in Supermarkets: How SUPERSPAR saves +€90k in Energy
Supermarkets are one of the retail sectors with the most energy consumption. It is distributed among the different installations and departments (refrigeration machines, ovens, household appliances on display, etc).
You can easily assume high numbers when imagining these energy costs, right? Well, this does not mean that these types of establishments cannot be energy efficient or reduce their consumption. I’m going to show you with a real case, the SUPERSPAR success story.
How to save +€76,000 on Energy in Sports Centres [Success Story]
There is some kind of public or private sports centre in almost every town or city. In larger cities, there can even be several large sports complexes. These are facilities with high energy consumption (domestic hot water, long opening hours, lighting, kitchen areas and restaurants…). Is it possible to save energy in sports centres? Let’s take a look at a real case involving our partner Enertips, Centre Atlètic Laietania, where more than €76K savings on energy have been made.
How to Integrate Energy Analysis with Energy Control in Your Building Portfolios
When we talk about energy management, not only does it involve a thorough analysis of the energy consumption that is produced in buildings, but we must also carry out energy and functional control. So, how do we integrate the energy analysis with Building Portfolio Control? Discover the types of control in buildings, and learn about […]
8 Advanced Energy Analysis Tools for Real Estate & Facility Management
When you work in Real Estate or Facility Management sector, and you are part of the energy management department, one of your challenges is to manage a multitude of locations, buildings and building portfolios of different types. This kind of work requires advanced energy management, and to be equipped with the right tools to achieve significant results.
Discover these 8 essential tools to carry out the advanced energy analysis your buildings need, achieve your company’s goals in energy saving and keep growing in your company thanks to the benefits achieved with your effort and work:
How to Detect the Savings Potential of your Buildings Portfolio
What is smart energy management for those who must carry this out in several or thousands of buildings? The key here is energy analytics, with its first basic steps to detecting the greatest potential savings, and advanced analysis tools to achieve the level of detail that we want.
We’ll tell you what an advanced energy analysis should be like for a buildings portfolio, whatever their size, and how to detect the savings potential hidden in their buildings. Keep reading…
ISO 41001 for Facility Management: All you need to know
Of the many ISO certifications that exist, one, in particular, affects the facility management (FM) sector. Since 2018, ISO 41001:2018 provides a framework for developing, implementing and maintaining effective facility management. In this article, we review how it can benefit your facilities.
What Gamification means for Energy Management
You’ve heard a lot lately about gamification and its application in various fields – such as gamification for energy management – but does it refer exactly to the use of games?
Not exactly, although it’s related to game theory. To better understand what gamification is and what it’s all about, we’ll tell you about it below.
How to estimate ROI in a Restaurant Energy Efficiency Project
Whether you manage a single restaurant or thousands of locations in a chain, it’s important to understand the energy behaviour of your facilities. And as the saying goes, you can’t manage what you don’t monitor. A smart system helps you get the full picture of what’s going on in your building(s) so you can make energy-intelligent business decisions for your restaurant chain.
What’s more today’s data-driven energy management solutions can optimise and even maximise that savings potential. These smart systems also tend to keep customers, kitchen staff, and service staff more comfortable and productive. Increased comfort and lower energy costs are a no brainer!
PRÓTYPO Project: predictive maintenance for energy management
The concept of predictive maintenance is a methodology totally related to energy management, since it is based on the measurement and monitoring of the state of the installations, giving recommendations that will produce great savings. The PRÓTYPO Project aims to build a tool to carry out this methodology in energy management.
DEXMA leads PRÓTYPO Project oriented towards the detection of anomalies at the energy level via chatbot. I you would like to know more about it, read on!
5 Best Practices for Smart Restaurants: Smart Energy Tech
Restaurants are among the most energy-intensive tertiary sector buildings in Europe, using anywhere from 3 to 10x the amount of energy used by the average commercial building, and can account for anywhere from 4-6% of operating costs according to The Carbon Trust. Finding intelligent ways to overcome these challenges while increasing the comfort of your customers is an essential way to make you their superhero, not to mention a winner with your colleagues!
The idea behind this post is to share some demonstrated examples of best practices for Smart Restaurants that can be used to transform energy waste into savings in the food service and catering sector.
The Top 3 Energy Manager Priorities in 2018
The energy manager’s daily to do list is no doubt a long one, with more than a few headaches to solve. But what happens when energy managers are asked to prioritise their tasks and priorities, not just for one day, but the entire year?
At DEXMA, our curiosity got the best of us! We asked our energy manager community, and they answered.
Here is what we found out when it comes to the top energy manager priorities for this year:
