With rising energy cost wreaking havoc on the operating cost of your building, now is the time to be energy-efficient minded and invest in the long term performance of your building. When you increase energy efficiency, you lower energy consumption and costs and therefore reduce your building operating cost. And remember, energy constitutes about a third of a building’s controllable operating expenses – reduce energy cost, improve profitability!

GreenSweep:  saving you money by saving the planet!

Energy audits serve as an essential starting point for increasing building performance and increased energy efficiency.  Energy audits provide building owners with an updated road-map of their asset infrastructure and energy usage and cost; they let you know where you are today, and what you can do to realize a better tomorrow.

There are three basic types of electric utility rates:

Demand Pricing: Standard commercial and industrial rates; you get the energy you want, when you want it, at prices based on the amount you need.

Time of Use Pricing: This rate can benefit customers with certain energy usage patterns or those who have the flexibility to shift usage to off-peak periods.

Real-Time Pricing: An option for larger users of electricity where the electricity cost can vary hourly and prices can be given ahead of time.

In competitive markets (where not bound by the Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act of 1973) we can prepare documentation necessary to solicit offers from suppliers, evaluate responses, and negotiate contractual terms and conditions.

In the United States, approximately 89% of the energy produced in power plants is generated by thermoelectric systems, which evaporate water during the cooling of the condenser water.The national weighted average for thermoelectric and hydroelectric water use is 2.0 gallons of evaporated water per kWh of electricity consumed at the point of end use.So, for every kWh saved by implementing energy efficient measures as mentioned above, 2.0 gallons of water are also saved.

It also takes a considerable amount of energy to deliver and treat the water you use every day. American public water supply and treatment facilities consume about 56 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year—enough electricity to power more than 5 million homes for an entire year.

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) – more commonly known as trash or garbage – consists of everyday items such as product packaging (glass, paper, plastic), grass clippings, furniture, clothing, bottles, food scraps, newspapers, appliances, paint, and batteries, etc.

Several MSW management practices, such as source reduction & reuse, recycling, and composting, prevent or divert materials from the waste stream.  Source reduction involves altering the design, manufacture, or use of products and materials to reduce the amount and toxicity of what gets thrown away. Recycling diverts items, such as paper, glass, plastic, and metals, from the waste stream.  These materials are sorted, collected, and processed and then manufactured, sold, and bought as new products. Buying recycled products completes the recycling loop.  Source reduction and recycling also conserves resources and reduces pollution including greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.