Pumping Up Savings
Alliance industrial consultants with expertise in pump systems now have a new tool to help explain and promote to customers the benefits of a pump study and the Power Smart Pumps Optimization Initiative.
BC Hydro has identified that approximately half of BC’s future electricity conservation can be realized in the industrial sector, where pump systems account for a major portion of energy consumption and potential savings. To help explain this business opportunity to industry, Power Smart has developed a short educational video, which introduces in simple terms how pumps work and the ways in which they can be optimized for improved performance, reliability and cost efficiency.
The video also promotes the Power Smart Pumps Optimization Initiative, which provides funding to customers for pump studies and incentives for energy efficiency projects. Power Smart may provide 75% funding for the cost of a pump study proposal if approved. Additional funding may be available upon completion of an energy efficiency project, provided that the required criteria are met. These include: an energy efficiency project must be implemented within 18 months after the completed study, and the project must exceed the minimum energy saving threshold.
Alliance members can use the video to help educate their customers, who, in turn, can use the video within their own organization to build support for a pump efficiency project. The video is available for viewing at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Mq_u0XqIQ. Customers are encouraged to post link on their own websites.
For more information about the Power Smart Pumps Optimization Initiative and to apply for funding, visit www.bchydro.com/pumps