EM&T examples
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Examples of Energy Monitoring & Targeting
| User | Data collection methods | Examples of benefits |
| higher education college | weekly manual meter readings; degree days automatically downloaded from web service | discovered that 40% of main campus electricity use was unexpectedly attributable to weather because of unauthorised heaters |
| chemical works operating distillation columns | automatic transfer from process control system | detected when operators bypassed a heat recovery unit; enabled optimisation of production on lowest-energy units |
| pharmaceuticals factory | automatic meter reading; own weather station | detected simultaneous heating and cooling |
| headquarters office building | monthly manual meter readings and published degree-day data | found electric frost-protection heaters running in air handling units and cut consumption by 40% |
| microelectronics factory | weekly manual meter readings; degree-day data automatically downloaded from web service; production statistics downloaded from management system | detected major waste in nitrogen plant due to component failure; detected heating boilers running idle |
| data centre | monthly manual meter readings, own degree-day logger | detected unauthorised heating of office building converted to storage use |
| borough council | monthly data entry and analysis by outside bureau | detected interference with time control on heating at a depot |
| brewery | weekly meter readings and key production statistics imported from existing management spreadsheets | detected electricity lost through throttling of borehole pumps |