Helping your company find and eliminate hidden energy losses

Energy cost increases over the past decade are forcing today’s industrial and commercial consumers to substantially reduce their energy costs. For organizations such as petroleum refineries and chemical plants, doing so requires a sustained effort in two main areas: maximizing facility energy use efficiency and minimizing energy transmission losses. Once opportunities for improvements in both areas are detected, evaluated, and prioritized, action items can be presented to facility management for consideration.

C. K. Gilbert’s 40+ years experience in petroleum refining and power generation provides a realistic perspective on how to successfully initiate and sustain energy-saving ideas.

CKG Consulting offers energy management services in the following areas:

• Refineries spend typically 50% of cash operating costs … on energy, making [it] a major cost factor and also an important opportunity for cost reduction. Energy use is also a major source of emissions in the refinery industry making energy efficiency improvement an attractive opportunity to reduce emissions and operating costs.

  — Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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