Targeting Customers by Industry—Steam System Optimization

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe focus is to reach natural gas customers who have specific high energy use and identify prospective energy saving projects. Steam systems are identified as heavy consumers of natural gas. By targeting this specific industry, trends and analysis are established, resulting in categorization based on facility type and steam use. There are well established best practices used to implement projects and processes that lead to energy savings. Through optimization of a steam system, the customer can see energy reduction savings ranging on average of between 5 and 15%. The savings vary, but by targeting large customers, the potential from project implementation has shown average annual fuel savings of over $100,000 per facility. The steps taken to target steam customers and identify savings opportunities can be obtained by the following: • Identify Targeted Customers• Identify Steam Use• System Assessment/Audit Savings• Trends/Analysis of Steam Systems.The examples in this article have been identified f...