The Energy Efficiency Process

Improving the energy efficiency of any facility is a process that includes recognition of waste, assessment of opportunities for improvement and implementation of improvement measures.

The result of energy efficiency is a reduction in energy waste and economic benefit – CASH – for the owner of the facility.

There are often residual benefits to be gained from energy efficiency improvements, as well. Examples include extended shelf life for refrigerated produce, improved creature comfort, and higher quality light output.

New Edison Energy helps customers who recognize that they are wasting energy and acknowledge that their business, school or municipality would benefit from improving their cash flow.

Our role is helping our customers assess the opportunities and implement the improvements that make economic sense using the best available products in the market at any given time.

Grocery and Food Service

We recognize that the grocery business is a low-margin industry with capital constraints. We accept the challenge of helping our customers in this sector find wasted energy within their stores and turn it into operating cash.

We use a handful of grocery-specific products to generate results for our customers including:

– Night Curtains for Open Refrigerated Cases
– Electronically Commutated Motors (ECM) for Fans in Reach-in and Walk-in Cases
– Anti-Sweat Heater Controls
– LED Lamps for Refrigerated Cases

Customers served by major utilities are eligible for incentives for these energy efficiency measures.

Lighting Retrofits

Lighting is nearly always the easiest energy efficiency improvement to undertake and paybacks are often very attractive. Quantifying the benefits of lighting improvement is normally a simple calculation. And, every major electric utility has incentives available for light fixture replacement, re-lamping, and controls.

Today there are countless lighting retrofit products available in the market. Except for the most established fluorescent lights, these products are changing and evolving rapidly with a trajectory toward the eventual use of more and more LED-source products. Available light fixture technology includes T5 & T8 fluorescent, compact fluorescent, induction and LED. Sensor options include daylight, occupancy and motion sensors.

Utility incentives are also changing, though at a much slower pace. Most utility programs operate on an annual cycle but there are often interim adjustments to select incentives.

Lighting retrofits are not “one-size fits all” solutions. We help our customers select lighting fixtures and control packages along with the appropriate incentive package to deliver a lighting solution and economic result tailored to the customers’ requirements.