Situation
- Energy spend > $12 million/year
- Leadership unaware of major operational issues impacting energy costs
- Energy procurement and risk management not aligned with business and operations teams
- Energy management disaggregated across departments and NOT a strategic focus by senior leadership
Opportunity
- Analytics of energy-centric operations to demonstrate costly irregularities
- Projects to assess opportunities broadly, then to focus on delivering savings
- Prove the value add from energy consulting best practices to senior leadership
- Build a long-term relationship to act as an outsourced strategic energy manager
Impact
- Have established credibility and trust across senior leadership team and in the trenches
- Changed the paradigm of how analytical expertise can be applied to the energy equation
- Increased power generated by CHP to blend down cost of purchased power for savings of $425K/year at the Medical Center campus