The economic slowdown that retail faces may still impact significantly, and retail chains need all the tools at their disposal to preserve the bottom line. After putting in place the measures to protect store associates and customer safety, retail must contend with how to recover from losses - and considerable savings can come from cutting back on energy spend across locations.
During events where store traffic is significantly reduced and there are higher than average staff shortages, corporate can go through the process of identifying where energy use can be pulled back to save money without affecting comfort across specific locations.
Management and facility managers may ask:
A lot of these things can be pre-set (and managed remotely) through building automation systems so that you can implement them readily when you need them. And energy management systems that can automate and improve efficiency across building automation systems can reduce energy spend enterprise-wide.
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Every business is different in their needs and decision making, so it is essential to make sure you are informed to protect your specific business assets. It cannot be overstated that your relationships with your key vendors are precious. Vendors are susceptible to the same issues that any catastrophe brings, so you need to understand what is happening with them.
With or without the Coronavirus issue, the ROI on PhoenixET's energy management solution is impressive. Our energy optimization is achieved through the continuous manipulation of a variety of energy conservation measures, including set-point manipulation, economizer resets, load cycling, load rolling, 24/7 drift and more.
When things move quickly, knowing your vendor can react fast and reliably is critical. And PhoenixET is fully prepared to handle our customer's needs across portfolios in times of disruption.
With PhoenixET, customers can:
We help retail and grocery chains control, manage, and monitor assets such as HVAC, lighting, refrigeration, industrial, and consumer-facing machines to do smart things such as alert, measure, and command to automatically correct or predict the need for service.
We enable retailers, grocery stores, universities, theaters, and many other industries to save on energy by providing best-in-class software that monitors and controls assets with no additional hardware.
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