#Transports: Automotive/ Aerospace
The energy efficiency marathon: part I
Energy savings can be achieved in different ways
More than 30,000 visitors, 130,000 kilometers and 290 stops: Siemens is saying goodbye to its Energy Efficiency Roadshow. On its way through Brazil, China and Europe, people were informed on how to optimize industrial processes and to improve competitiveness in a sustainable way. As a result, partnerships were formed and contracts entered. Some of these will be introduced here:
Siemens and EDF
Siemens and Tisco
Siemens and Audi
The new energy efficiency standard EN 50598-2
This week, we will focus on EDF, the second largest electricity producer in the world. Together with Siemens, the French company developed a strategy to improve its customers’ energy and ecological efficiency.
France was one of the 191 countries to join the Kyoto protocol in 2010. Since then, French energy providers of power, gas, heat and fuel oil have been obligated to save energy through consumer-oriented measures. With the so-called Energy Performance Certificate, they can actively promote energy efficiency. If, for example, industrial enterprises want to install a converter or a high-performance engine or establish an energy management system, they can receive Energy Performance Certificates. Therefore they will by supported by EDF - one more reason to invest in eco-efficient machines.
“EDF and Siemens offer their customers technical solutions for a lower energy consumption”, says Philippe Le-Fur, project lead for corporate and industry marketing. “In the end, the customer is part of a value chain which he can benefit from”. But firstly, everybody has to take the topic of energy efficiency seriously. This means a profound change of thinking. “We had to show what kind of success we have achieved with some of the industrial companies”, Thierry de Vanssay, Siemens regional manager in South East France. Thus Siemens was able to convince the French market leader for injection molding machines to install electrical presses with equpped with its energy-efficient solutions. The energy savings compared to the old equipment amount to almost 50 percent.
Energy savings can be achieved in different ways: through a complete architecture to lower consumption, load shedding or energy management systems or precise measuring devices. Siemens Financial Services offers financial plans in which energy savings finance investments. The amortization rates are thereby aligned with the achieved savings from the project. Say you invest 10,000 Euros which are spread over 24 months with 470 Euros each, the project costs are more than compensated through the achieved energy savings of 520 Euros a month. It is an investment which pays off.