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An Appeal to Energy Managers & Others Responsible for Reducing Energy Cost & Use
- If you spend more than about $1 million a year on energy, your potential savings are big enough to make this worth your time.
- If you operate more than about 20 stores, your energy-management challenges are complex enough that you’ll welcome these ideas, specifically aimed at multisite retailers.
- It’ll cost you nothing but a few minutes to see if these ideas are likely to help.
I’m Daniel Stouffer. I’ve worked for more than four years with a team of experts who consult with big retailers regarding their consumption of energy. Our team at Verisae has worked with such companies as Walmart, Target, Tesco, Fresh & Easy, Giant Eagle Foods, Bashas’, Sainsbury and over 50 others.
Daniel Stouffer - "Communications Manager"
I’m here to share with you some of the energy management insights we’ve learned from this work.
One of the experts I’ve worked with is Paul Hepperla, an aeronautical engineer by training, who has more than 17 years of experience in energy management. He has also worked at Excel Energy, Johnson Controls, and SUPERVALU, one of the largest grocery retailers in the word. He is the co-author our energy and carbon emissions patents.
I’ve also worked with Dr. Abtar Singh. He has an M.S. & Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. He’s held the position of VP of Product Management for Emerson Climate Technologies and VP of Engineering & Technology for Emerson Retail Services. He has authored several technical publications and several energy-related patents.
I’m not an energy expert myself. But I sure mix it up with many smart people every day. My contribution is to write in clear and readable language, drawing from my experiences with people like Paul, Abtar, and many experts within our retail customers.
Through my work at Verisae, I’ve met with dozens of the world’s leading retailers to discuss energy efficiency.
How Much Can You Learn from E-mail Messages?
You and I both know that a short series of brief e-mail messages isn’t going to transform the way your company uses energy. You’re not going to get a CME certification course by e-mail.
Despite the brevity of the messages, I think you can get real value out of this series.
If you’re interested in more information on the topic of any message you receive, you can click on a link that will take you to additional resources online.
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I’ve worked with enough big retailers to know that none of them consistently applies all the insights I share in this series. Even the best of them could substantially improve their performance if they did.
How Will You Keep Meeting Expectations?
The better you are at energy conservation, the sooner you’ll arrive at a point where your efforts start losing steam.
If your company has already achieved big gains in energy efficiency, it’s because you’ve done the obvious things. You’ve picked the low-hanging fruit.
For the gains you’ve made in the past… well, some of those tend to slide backwards the moment you turn your attention somewhere else.
No matter how well you’ve done in the past, your executive committee always expects more. It’s what they pay you for.
But eventually you reach the slope of diminishing returns. You have to make progressively bigger commitments to achieve smaller and smaller results.
Do you sometimes wonder if you’re approaching that point?
Some of the most energy-efficient retailers in the world have told me even they could easily cut at least another 10% of energy consumption — if only they knew where to find the opportunities in their complex operations.
Your Biggest Efficiency Gains Will Start Inside 90 Cubic Inches
The human brain contains an average about 80 to 90 cubic inches of gray matter. Inside that small space you can expect to find your next the big opportunity to improve energy efficiency.
Often, the power of ideas can take you much further than any big investment of your company’s money or your own time. The more information you have – and the more effectively you can use it — the less effort you need to overcome resistance.
The better your insight, the more you can accomplish with less energy. If you were to express it as an equation, it might look like this:
Energy + Insight = Efficiency
Sign Up for Insights to Improve Energy Efficiency
With this series of e-mail messages, you’ll receive 10 ideas you can apply right away, one delivered to your inbox every few days.
Collectively, these ideas can help you see where to focus your attention for best results with limited time, money & resources.
The messages are in clear and straightforward language, with no jargon.
These Are Not Sales Pitches.
You can apply the ideas even if you never do business with my company.
In the series you’ll discover all this:
- How to apply the “mother of all efficiency methods” to cut energy consumption when time, money, resources and patience are in short supply.
- The energy-saving treasure that too many retailers squander.
- The minimum energy intelligence all retailers should capture every month.
- How to ensure 100% accuracy and easy availability of your energy data.
- How to use the energy-saving secrets of top Japanese auto makers in your stores.
- 3 problems with using energy data from energy meters that you read manually.
- How to achieve good energy efficiency. (It’s not always so obvious.) And how to know how good is good enough.
- 5 key factors you must know to get real insight from benchmarking the energy performance of your stores.
- When deviant behavior can be a virtue rather than a vice.
Why I’m Sharing These Ideas
I’m sharing these ideas because Verisae is committed to helping global retailers improve their financial performance by conserving energy.
We believe the opportunity for further improvements is huge. And we think the environmental and economic benefits are equally big.
Globally, retailers can save billions of dollars through improved energy efficiency.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that retailers spend $20 billion on energy each year. (Source: USEPA)
An energy-efficiency expert at the International Energy Agency in Paris suggests that efficiency improvements as high as 50% are well within reach of retailers. (Source: Leila Abboud and John Biers, “Business Goes on An Energy Diet,” The Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2007)
If he is right, the retail industry can reduce annual energy costs by as much as $10 billion.
For the average full-line U.S. discount retailer, a 10% reduction in energy costs can boost net profit margins by as much as 1.55%. The 10% reduction has the same effect on operating income as a sales increase of 1.26%. (Sources: U.S. Small Business Administration and USEPA)
The savings potential for the average supermarket are even more spectacular. A 10% reduction in energy cost can boost net profit margins by as much as 16%. (Source: Small Business Administration)
Depending on your margins, a 20% reduction of energy cost can increase profit by as much as a 5% increase in sales. (Source: Carbon Trust, Retail Sector Overview)
In the UK, Europe and other countries, where the cost of electricity and natural gas is higher than in North America, the financial leverage of energy conservation is even bigger.
If some day you’d like to talk with us about alternative ways to apply the ideas in your business, that would be great. We’d love to discuss how we may be able to help you.
But it’s not a problem if we you never want to talk. You don’t have to provide a phone number to sign up for these messages.
Short, Concise Ideas for Busy People
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