How to sell complex products and services in energy efficiency market
Short article about German start-up Visual Selling. Their business is to create visual and digital communication (content) which helps companies to sell complex product and services. This is likely important in industrial energy efficiency markets as the time of just replacing a motor or a pump is coming to an end. Today the system perspective is more important - but also more complex to sell! For…
Read Full Business PracticeISO500001 + IT = Energy Data Management System
What does it mean to establish an Energy Management System integrated in companies IT system architecture. This paper describing the Energy Data Management System from VIDEC, ranging from interfaces to system configuration. It also highlights the necessary input such systems require,e.g. KPIs or training for users. It has an in-build kind of audit functionality, called zero investment analysis.…
Read Full Business PracticeGKD - Gebr Kufferath AG - compressed air from the roof
Compressed air from the roof: metal weaver saves 20 % energy: The applications of the metal meshes produced by GKD – Gebr. Kufferath AG range from microfilters for inkjet printers to automotive filtration, and from process belt mesh for dryers and ovens to challenging architectural projects. The company is based in Düren, Germany, and is the world‘s leading technical weaver. A compressor station…
Read Full Business PracticeThe difference between implementing and benefitting from ISO50001
This short article describes a common issue many companies are facing. ISO50001 has become a widely implemented standard in industry. However, the energy management system often exists only on paper resulting in nothing else than additional administrative burden and costs. That´s obvioulsy a waste of time and money. The reason? ISO50001 is a framework only. HE Consulting briefly describes what is…
Read Full Business PracticeTranslating SAP Add-Ons
Energy Efficiency is not only about technology. From time to time we are highlighting related services of relevance so that companies do not forget the little, but often important pieces in the jigsaw to market their energy efficiency solutions internationally. An example is this short paper about SAP add-ons. Ever thought about translating SAP user interfaces to ensure you can smoothly work…
Read Full Business PracticeIoT is Today!
IoT, some call it industrie4.0, has brought a new breath in the whole industrial production process by allowing the physical and digital world to merge together. This will result in increasing…
Read Full article5 innovative UK energy efficiency project developers and quality assurance providers
During last years, energy efficiency experts in Europe and US, backed by a 1,5 billion EUR investor network , have worked together to increase confidence into investing in energy efficiency - serving…
Read Full articleStrategic: Investing in industrial Energy Efficiency is a major decision
Investing in industrial energy efficiency is a major decision To succeed, businesses are continually investing in product inputs, equipment, buildings, marketing, distribution and people to name but a…
Read Full articleReining Heisskühlung
Reining Heisskühlung = Well-matured concepts. For more than 50 years ago, Reining have commenced the development of hot cooling plants in order to reduce substantially the immense cooling water consumption for industrial plants and, apart from other advantages, to achieve a better energy recovery. In 1994 Reining became a…
New Utility Business Model: leverage customer base
New Utility Busines Model: leverage customer base The typical utility model of the past is dead. The rise of renewables is often mentioned as one of the key reasons. Giant utilities were and are…
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