For years, PhoenixET has been helping energy and facility managers gain precise building management control over thousands of locations. Having control drastically saves money, cuts down on energy consumption, and allows for strategic decision-making, using data analysis across thousands of data points. This post examines how a major grocery chain is reaching significant energy and operational efficiency goals, through Phoenix's innovations that integrate complicated and disparate building systems.
The customer is a national grocery retailer with over 1,900 stores across 20 well-known banners, throughout the states. Aside from business goals to reduce energy, the customer has publicly pledged a series of energy commitments to reduce their carbon footprint.
The customer's portfolio includes multiple divisions, with many disparate building management systems and a large variety of hardware. This situation makes centralizing energy management exceptionally challenging.
Despite the complexities involved, the customer required a solution that would enable:
Phoenix set the guidelines and deployed integration of their Enterprise Data Xchange (EDX)® with Building Intelligence (BI) reporting across all the customer's locations and divisions. Phoenix also set up a management process to work through orders/dispatches on opportunities identified through Phoenix's energy control measures (ECM), where remote fixes are not possible.
The overall goal was to reduce energy consumption through specific ECM strategies, which included:
The EDX platform also enables the customer to apply for millions of dollars in energy efficiency incentives provided through utility programs.
Phoenix eases the burden of managing disparate equipment and allows for energy reduction through continuous remote commissioning.
The customer benefits from:
Another terrific example of how PhoenixET can make a huge difference on how major retail chains manage their energy to reach savings and consumption reduction goals can be seen in our National Grocery Chain Case Study. Download the study to learn how we helped this grocery chain reduce their energy by 4% across their locations with NO Capital Expenditure!
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