System Overview

Without the necessary support, most businesses misallocate an average of 10% of their energy due to poor control, leaks, inefficient equipment or lack of awareness. However, with energy information, they have the knowledge needed to identify problem areas, understand their facility’s energy needs and implement corrective actions. And that’s where ELUTIONS can help. Active Energy Management (AEM®), ELUTIONS' dynamic energy information software, can help customers enjoy cost savings from 1 to 20 percent.

How does it work? Simple. By providing extremely detailed information about the consumption and usage of utilities, AEM® helps users find savings in places they never could check before. Examples of typical areas where energy cost savings can be achieved include:

• Optimizing consumption patterns to lower cost periods
• Modifying usage through automated demand alarming
• Aggregating multiple loads into a single load
• Identifying optimal rate tariffs
• Allocating costs to tenants, departments or end-users
• Better management and identification of equipment maintenance

A real-time, Web-based energy information software package, AEM® is easily accessible through Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser and provides a flexible, scalable and robust platform to measure, manage and control energy usage and environmental conditions within one or multiple facilities. Energy can be monitored, via the Internet, at the very moment of consumption anywhere in the world, offering tremendous advantages for rate analysis and negotiation, curtailment management, load aggregation, usage alarming and control.

Competitive Advantage through Improved Strategic Energy Consumption and Generation

Using ELUTIONS Enterprise Application Software and Networked Hardware technologies companies gain competitive advantage in Retail Food industry. This is fulfilled by:

Monitor and curtail store energy usage
– HVAC
– Refrigeration
– In-store lighting
– External lighting (parking)
Reconcile energy bill with actual usage
Monitor and automate mobile generator fleet
– In times of power outages to keep refrigeration and freezers up
– To curtail load as part of energy curtailment programs
Institute sub-tenant billing (e.g. deli, meats, produce, etc.)
Institute multiple store benchmarking program
– Dashboards comparing a store with the best store(s)
– Continuous improvement program
Optimize maintenance via monitoring of equipment
Compliance logs on energy usage and food safety (refrigeration maintained during power outages)

Wide range of Savings Opportunities

Demand Management with Real-time alarming
Load monitoring / alarming for immediate notification of loads that shouldn’t be on during a specific time
Parking Lot lights running during the daytime
Electric Duct heaters running in the summertime
Vacuum pressure on a refrigeration load that was “adjusted” to correct an immediate temperature problem and then “forgotten” once the immediate problem was corrected. (i.e. Meat cooler exceeds max. temp. limit on a weekend, 2nd shift – floor manager at the time calls for after hour maintenance to fix the problem. Contract maintenance has no real drive to “fix” the problem at the source, rather he is charged with getting the case temp back within guidelines as quickly as possible
Food Safety (e.g. Case temperature logs)
Ability to provide historical data of food temp. which may result in saving inventory due to a USDA inspection tied to local / regional illness
Immediate notification of utility power outages and the recovery of utility power
Curtailment Opportunities
Request interruptible rate from utility and use EIS to monitor, control, and provide settlement functions for utility. These curtailment opportunities include but are not limited to:
Partial or Full Load reduction by means of on site generation control
Peak Shaving to help control daily, monthly, or rolling demand charges
Coincident Peak (CP) avoidance by monitoring utility grid load simultaneously with individual store load
Ability to participate in aggregate rates structures where available

ELUTIONS Enterprise Application Software

• AEM® Energy Management Software
- Real-time management of energy consumption
- Billing verification
- Alarming on anomalies
- Price Responsive Load Management (PRLM)
- Automated load shed strategies based on Real Time Pricing (RTP)

• DGEN® Distributed Generation Management Software
- Dispatch generation assets for emergency or economic benefit
- Web-based, mouse “click” control
- Alarming on anomalies
- Price Responsive Load Management (PRLM)
- Monitor and alarm on operational parameters

• ALERT® Mobile Generator and Maintenance Fleet Management Software
- GPS track mobile generation assets during natural disasters
- Dispatch them to the sites that need power
- Theft prevention
- Wireless connectivity and monitoring
- Maintenance service fleet management
- GPS track maintenance vehicles
- Wireless connectivity and monitoring of speed, route etc…