With Halloween behind us and Thanksgiving looming on the horizon, it’s not only time to prep the turkey. It’s time to prep your plan and budget if you are considering an energy efficiency and equipment management initiative in 2020. For multisite operators of small facilities like quick-serve restaurants, convenience stores and retailers, an enterprise-wide deployment […]
A few weeks back I attended the Edison Electric Institute’s (EEI) National Key Accounts Workshop. This is a twice-yearly event hosted by the electric utility industry trade organization to address energy-related issues with national retailers, restaurant chains, and other organizations with large numbers of facilities. I was struck by an exchange between the Director of […]
(cross-posted from the ServiceChannel blog) ServiceChannel works with a range of partners in adjacent solution categories, bringing best-of-breed capabilities to the facilities management ecosystem. This is the next in a series of guest posts from our partners highlighting how these new technologies are driving innovation and real value across the enterprise. Ordinarily, the process of […]
Lighting accounts for a significant portion of the energy usage at most retail stores. The right lighting can make your product stand out, so you certainly want your store lit up when your customers are milling about the aisles, but how about when the shelves are being stocked? It’s very common for team members to […]
A common source of HVAC energy waste is blower /supply fans running 24/7/365, including unoccupied and overnight periods where the supply air is definitely not required. SiteSage internet-connected thermostats allow you to set fan mode in AUTO or ON by time block, thus ensuring that fans only run when needed and capturing the associated savings. […]
HVAC equipment can fail in the most interesting ways, but fortunately SiteSage delivers the data to help understand equipment issues, and allows you to make remote adjustments to help negate their impact and compensate with other units. The first chart shown here features data from a Heat Pump installed at a California retailer. With the […]
Cross-posted from the Ecova Insider blog. Too many companies negotiate partnerships without ever establishing the basis for working together, or fully aligning their mutual interests with the structure of the relationship. More often than not these relationships fail. Partnerships that are most likely to be successful and to yield positive results for both partners occur […]
I used to work in retail a decade or two ago, and the holiday season (which began roughly in September) was our most important – the time when we made all of the cash. We’d look at the daily numbers and watch our top line increase, but at the store level, what we never saw […]
Powerhouse Dynamics’ CEO Martin Flusberg’s latest column in Energy Manager Today is about energy management for small box retail: Energy Management Systems (EMS’s) are ubiquitous in the big box retail environment, and even in medium box stores, but have been less so in small box retail (defined for our purposes as facilities under 10,000 sq. […]
