Energy efficiency in business: how to reduce consumption? Whatever the size of your company and your activity, many levers exist to reduce your energy bill. Optimization of processes, energy equipment, insulation, production of renewable energy, simple actions to apply on a daily basis: discover the levers to activate to improve the energy efficiency of your business and save on your bills. In the process of Saving Energy you can try the followings.
Energy Efficiency in Business: Have Your Tertiary or Industrial Sites Assessed
Before thinking about reducing your company’s energy consumption, it is essential to study its main areas of energy expenditure. On a daily basis, your company and your employees use energy:
- To modulate the temperature (heating or air conditioning);
- For lighting;
- To power electrical or production devices;
- To move
The individual study of each of these poles will make it possible to identify areas for improvement and any overconsumption in order to deploy the appropriate solutions. In this sense, it is possible to carry out an energy diagnosis, or “energy audit”, which is compulsory for companies with more than 250 employees.
The purpose of this study is to identify the sources of savings within your company and the means to implement to achieve them. It also makes it possible to identify the most energy-consuming items in your activity, in order to take action to reduce your consumption. This audit must be carried out by an approved expert: at the end of his study, this professional recommends the most profitable solutions to implement, and supports you in their implementation. Other types of studies are also available to you depending on your objectives:
- Audits with measures: better understand consumption habits in order to detect more sources of relevant savings;
- Comfort audits: integrate the well-being of users at the heart of energy saving recommendations;
- Heritage and architectural audit: include architectural constraints in the energy roadmap;
- Energy master plan: consider and prioritize scenarios to achieve an overall performance objective.
These energy saving operations can take several forms:
- Optimize the waterproofing of the frame or your utilities to avoid energy loss;
- Opt for more modern equipment that uses less energy;
- Switch to renewable energies to heat, light your premises, supply charging stations for electric cars (solar, photovoltaic, wind, biomass, etc.);
Energy efficiency work represents a significant budget, even for a company. With professionals, benefit from Energy Saving Certificates, financial assistance to optimize user comfort while improving the performance of your installations.
Choose Economical Devices in Business
There are several ways to improve the energy efficiency of your business. Among them: equipping more efficient and less energy-consuming devices, or installing technical installation supervision equipment (GTC-GTB).
More Efficient Equipment
While the re-equipment represents a certain expense, the energy savings observed over the life of the equipment (full cost) make the initiative profitable. In concrete terms, replacing your stationary computers with laptops can reduce the power consumption of your IT fleet by 50 to 80%. The savings are all the more important by choosing eco-designed computers, with very low consumption. Leasing financing solutions allow companies to have a spreading of charges, financed by the energy savings generated, and to be able to upgrade their equipment base during technological developments.