Compressed Air Best Practices - October 2008 - (Page 6) | 10/08 Compressed Air Industry AUTOMOTIVE TRANSIT | FROM THE EDITOR Utility Company Energy-Efficiency Incentives for Industry The model where a utility company provides incentives for industry to invest in energy-efficiency projects can be very effective. There are many examples of both government-run utilities and privately held utilities that do this well. As the United States tries to “be green,” industry is where kW savings can be effectively targeted TODAY. Reducing kW costs in industry provides a “double benefit” in making the business more efficient and better able to compete. Manitoba Hydro is the government-owned utility in Manitoba, Canada. Rob Armstrong and Ron Marshall head up the Manitoba Power Smart program, which successfully provides incentives to industry to reduce their energy consumption. In this edition, Ron Marshall shares with us two audit stories this month on projects he did with the bus manufacturers: New Flyer and Motor Coach Industries. We also have many privately held utilities providing successful energy-efficiency incentive programs. Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Northeast Utilities System and the Southern Company are examples of some major power companies who do this. Some administer their own programs and others contract it out. Meanwhile, however, we have many of our largest industrial states with little or no incentive programs coming from their utility companies. The utilities in states like Texas, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania are not aggressively pushing industrial energy conservation. Why is this? We hope that by publishing stories about successful audits and incentive programs, more projects will be done and programs created. Thank you for sending us your successful audit stories. In this edition, it was my pleasure to interview four companies (Mattei, Prevost, Northwest Equipment and Devair). All four firms are privately held and are investing in their growing businesses. I hope you enjoy reading about their optimistic views on the North American market and on their business plans. Thank you again for your support. ROD SMITH Editor rod@airbestpractices.com 6 www.airbestpractices.com http://www.belairtech.net http://www.belairtech.net http://www.airbestpractices.com
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